Psychological adjustment of children with spastic cerebral palsy

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Aytolun, Nilay
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The aim of the present study was to examine the predictive values of sociodemographic variables, parental variables (parental stress, family functioning, parental adjustment, coping methods), and child variables (coping methods, self concept) for the adjustment of children with spastic cerebral palsy. Transactional stress and coping model was used as the conceptual framework for the study. The sample of the study was composed of 80 children with spastic cerebral palsy and one of their parents. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to test the child adjustment by using child gender, parent education, parental stress, family functioning, parental adjustment, parental coping methods, child coping methods, and child self concept as independent variables. Results revealed that parentalstress, parents’ problem solving/optimistic coping and fatalistic coping predicted the adjustment of children with spastic CP. However, parental adjustment, family functioning, child coping and child self concept were not significantly predicting of child adjustment. The findings, strengths, limitations as well as the implications of the findings were discussed.
Psychology., Spastic Cerebral Palsy., Psychology M.S. thesis
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19166
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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N. Aytolun, “Psychological adjustment of children with spastic cerebral palsy,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.
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