TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental management of fear in chronically ill and healthy children
AU - Dolgin, Michael J.
AU - Phipps, Sean
AU - Harow, Eve
AU - Zeltzer, Lonnie K.
N1 - Funding Information:
'The authors gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the physicians and staff of the Divisions of Hematology-Oncology, Allergy-Immunology, and Neurology, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles. Michael J. Dolgin was supported by the American Cancer Society (California Division) Grant #P-2-84. Lonnie K. Zeltzer is a recipient of Research Career Development Award 1-K04-CA1268 and a W. T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award. Portions of this research were presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine meeting, San Francisco, March 1989. 2AU correspondence should be sent to Michael J. Dolgin, Behavioral Science Section, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90027.
PY - 1990/12
Y1 - 1990/12
N2 - This study was undertaken to determine the impact of children's health status on parental management of fear and avoidance, as well as the relationship between parenting strategies and children's fear and anxiety levels. Thirty-one children with a chronic life-threatening illness, 30 children with chronic non-life-threat-ening conditions, and 28 healthy children, and their mothers, were studied Children's health status, by diagnosis, was not a significant determinant of maternal fear-management strategies. For chronically ill children, clinical health status, in terms of illness course, prognosis, physical impairment, and time since diagnosis were related to maternal parenting strategies and to children's levels of medically related fears. For the sample as a whole, maternal fear-management strategies were related to child sex, socioeconomic status, and mothers' trait anxiety. These results are discussed in terms the interactive effects of child characteristics, health status, fear/anxiety, and parenting strategies.
AB - This study was undertaken to determine the impact of children's health status on parental management of fear and avoidance, as well as the relationship between parenting strategies and children's fear and anxiety levels. Thirty-one children with a chronic life-threatening illness, 30 children with chronic non-life-threat-ening conditions, and 28 healthy children, and their mothers, were studied Children's health status, by diagnosis, was not a significant determinant of maternal fear-management strategies. For chronically ill children, clinical health status, in terms of illness course, prognosis, physical impairment, and time since diagnosis were related to maternal parenting strategies and to children's levels of medically related fears. For the sample as a whole, maternal fear-management strategies were related to child sex, socioeconomic status, and mothers' trait anxiety. These results are discussed in terms the interactive effects of child characteristics, health status, fear/anxiety, and parenting strategies.
KW - Children
KW - Chronic illness
KW - Fears
KW - Parenting strategies
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0025681234
U2 - 10.1093/jpepsy/15.6.733
DO - 10.1093/jpepsy/15.6.733
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C2 - 2283578
AN - SCOPUS:0025681234
SN - 0146-8693
VL - 15
SP - 733
EP - 744
JO - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
JF - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
IS - 6
ER -