Coping styles of learning disabled adolescents and their parents

Coping styles of 50 learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled adolescents and their parents were compared. Learning-disabled adolescents showed less ability to appraise a source of stress and to seek information about their stressful situations and showed greater pessimism about academic concerns....

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Published in:Journal of youth and adolescence 1995-06, Vol.24 (3), p.281-294
Main Authors: Shulman, S, Carlton-Ford, S, Levian, R, Hed, S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ability
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Child psychology
Comparative Analysis
Comparison
Coping
Coping style
Help Seeking
Learning Disabilities
Learning disabled adolescents
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Parent Role
Parents
Parents & parenting
People with disabilities
personal support networks
Pessimism
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
self help
Stress
Stress Variables
Teenagers
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Summary:Coping styles of 50 learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled adolescents and their parents were compared. Learning-disabled adolescents showed less ability to appraise a source of stress and to seek information about their stressful situations and showed greater pessimism about academic concerns. Coping patterns of parents did not clearly differ for the two groups. (SLD)
ISSN:0047-2891
1573-6601
DOI:10.1007/BF01537597