Individual and Psychosocial Mechanisms of Adaptive Functioning in Parentally Bereaved Children

The authors examined factors theorized to contribute to adaptive functioning in 56 parentally bereaved children (age 7-13) who had lost their caregiver within the previous 6 months. Adaptive functioning, defined as falling below clinical threshold levels on all measures of depression, posttraumatic...

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Published in:Death studies 2015-01, Vol.39 (5), p.296-306
Main Authors: Howell, Kathryn H., Shapiro, Danielle N., Layne, Christopher M., Kaplow, Julie B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Adaptation, Psychological
Avoidance Learning
Behavioral Symptoms
Bereavement
Child
Child Behavior - psychology
Empathy
Female
Grief
Health technology assessment
Humans
Male
Models, Psychological
Parent-Child Relations
Parental Death - psychology
Parents & parenting
Post traumatic stress disorder
Quantitative psychology
Religion
Social Adjustment
Social psychology
Stress, Psychological - etiology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Stress, Psychological - rehabilitation
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Summary:The authors examined factors theorized to contribute to adaptive functioning in 56 parentally bereaved children (age 7-13) who had lost their caregiver within the previous 6 months. Adaptive functioning, defined as falling below clinical threshold levels on all measures of depression, posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and internalizing/externalizing symptoms, characterized 57% of the sample. Linear mixed modeling revealed that children in the adaptive functioning group had lower mean scores on avoidant coping and higher mean scores on coping efficacy, religiosity, parental positive reinforcement, and parental empathy. Findings suggest that adaptive functioning following parental loss is related to both child-intrinsic factors and child-extrinsic factors.
ISSN:0748-1187
1091-7683
DOI:10.1080/07481187.2014.951497