Abstract

Children with psychologically vulnerable caregivers may be at risk for being labeled as having behavior problems when typical behaviors are viewed by their caregivers as problematic. Research examining the accuracy of the caregivers' perceptions of children's behaviors is limited The purpose of this study was to use the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation to explore family and female caregiver factors associated with appraisals of children's behaviors, the extent to which these appraisals may be distorted and children's level of risk of having behavioral problems.

A cross-sectional, correlational design was used. Data were collected from female caregivers of preschoolers. Reliable and valid instruments measured family factors, demographic characteristics, comfort in parenting, appraisal of behaviors, daily stress, parenting stress, depressive symptoms, social support, ratings of children's behaviors, and distortion in the ratings. Analyses included ANOVA, ANCOVA, Chi-square, simultaneous and hierarchical linear regressions.

Description

This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3451882; ProQuest document ID: 865626521. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Sallie Coke, PhD, PNP, FNP, PMHS

Sigma Membership

Theta Tau

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Cross-Sectional

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Psychologically Vulnerable Caregivers, Children, Behavior Problems, Female Caregivers

Advisor

Myra Carmon

Second Advisor

Shih-Yu Lee

Third Advisor

Laura P. Kimble

Fourth Advisor

Karen Gieseker

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Georgia State University

Degree Year

2011

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2021-12-21

Full Text of Presentation

wf_yes

Download

Share

COinS