Coping behaviors of latency-aged children with pediatric migraine and their family members.
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Title
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Coping behaviors of latency-aged children with pediatric migraine and their family members.
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Identifier
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AAI9325099
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identifier
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9325099
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Creator
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Gilbert, Mary Carlean.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Mildred D. Mailick
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Date
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1993
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Social Work | Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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Eight latency-aged children with pediatric migraine and their family members participated in an exploratory study of coping. Using scores from The Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1983) and rates of school absenteeism, children were grouped as copers and non-copers. Using an ethnographic approach, the researcher conducted 24 individual and conjoint family interviews. These in-depth interviews were tape recorded, transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed.;Using categories that emerged from the data and adapting from other researchers (Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub, 1989; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Pearlin & Schooler, 1978), the researcher identified three broad areas of coping: affective, cognitive, and problem-solving coping. Two areas of coping were further conceptualized in discrete categories. Included in cognitive coping were five sub-types: (a) spiritual coping, (b) cognitive-behavioral coping, (c) perspective coping, (d) resignation coping, and (e) "I'll-never-surrender" coping. Types of problem-solving coping were categorized as follows: (a) active coping, (b) prevention coping, (c) anticipatory coping, and (d) extender coping.;The findings indicated that copers and their family members developed a wider repertoire of coping thoughts and behaviors than did the non-copers and their family members. In general copers utilized all three broad types of coping and two or more sub-types of affective, cognitive, and problem-solving. In contrast to the non-copers, the copers and their family members used cognitive coping, prevention coping, and anticipatory coping frequently. There was a significant difference between copers and non-copers in regard to resignation coping; all copers and their family members utilized resignation coping but few of the non-copers did. Copers tended to have more autonomy in managing their headache disorder than non-copers. This study also found that family members were influential in the development and maintenance of children's coping efforts both through modelling of pain-coping behaviors and reinforcing or punishing children's coping.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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D.S.W.
