Christiane BaldusPsychosocial Adjustment in Children of Somatically Ill Parents
A Gender-Sensitive Approach
Studien zur Kindheits- und Jugendforschung, volume 49
Hamburg 2007, 236 pages
ISBN 978-3-8300-3109-3 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-03109-9 (eBook)
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The present book deals with psychosocial adjustment problems of children and adolescents, whose parents suffer from a serious somatic disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis or cancer). Special attention is given to the role of gender in the persons affected. The role of gender with respect to family relationships and family organization is analysed according to theoretical concepts and previous empirical findings.Using own data from a large European study, it is investigated, how psychosocial adjustment problems vary as a function of ill parent and child gender. Moreover, it is shown that factors associated with these adjustment problems are different for adolescent sons and daughters. This points at gender-specific differences in underlying processes for sons and daughters, when a parent is ill. In addition, gender-specific aspects of coping are covered.Keywords
FamilieGenderJugendlicheKinderKörperliche ErkrankungKranke ElternPsychologiePsychosoziale AnpassungPsychosoziale BelastungIhr Werk im Verlag Dr. Kovač
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