Demands of Maternal Chronic Illness and Children’s Educational Functioning: An Exploratory Study

Chen, Yung-Chi; Fish, Marian C.

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“…Multiple hierarchical regressions were conducted to test the predictabilities of parental illness and family variables, such as parental educational level and family income, on children’s academic outcomes, adaptive skills, and behavioral problems. As the literature has identified SES as a significant predictor of children’s educational and behavioral outcomes (e.g., Bradley & Corwyn, 2002; Chen & Fish, 2013a), parental education and household income were included in each of the following hierarchical regressions in order to test their associations with children’s functioning in this present study. As family financial resources (e.g., Korneluk & Lee, 1998), rather than parental education, appear to be more vulnerable to changes as a result of a parent becoming ill, parental education was the first variable to be entered into each of the hierarchical regressions (Step 1), followed by household income (Step 2).…”

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“…Cluver et al (2013) suggested that parental illness may impact youth outcomes via poverty. Similarly, Chen and Fish (2013a) suggested that parental physical illness may affect children’s functioning through depletion of household income as a result of physical impairment and time required to manage illness activities (e.g., medical appointments, treatment at home or in the clinic, hospitalization, insurance, napping, etc. ).…”

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“…As socioeconomic status (SES) has been found significantly associated with children’s academic and psychosocial functioning in the literature (e.g., Bradley & Corwyn, 2002; Chen & Fish, 2013a), measures of parental educational level and family household income were included in this study as potential confounding variables.…”

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“…It may be particularly difficult for families with children and adolescents to adjust to a serious illness, as these families are already faced with the continuous challenges of development and childrearing (Armistead, Klein, & Forehand, 1995; Rolland, 1999). In addition to typical developmental challenges, children of parents with chronic illness may also have to cope with the threat of losing a parent, compromised parental involvement, increased household and family responsibilities, changing schedules and routines, and depletion of social and financial resources (e.g., Armistead et al, 1995; Bogosian, Moss-Morris, Bishop, & Hadwin, 2011; Chen & Fish, 2013a; Korneluk & Lee, 1998; Pakenham & Bursnall, 2006).…”

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Exploration of the Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Parental Illness on Children’s Educational and Behavioral Functioning Using a Large Taiwanese Sample

Chen

2013

West J Nurs Res

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This study used data from Waves I and II of the Taiwan Educational Panel Survey (TEPS) to explore the potential short-term and long-term effects of parental illness and health condition on children's behavioral and educational functioning. A sample of 11,018 junior high school students and their parents and teachers in Taiwan were included in this present study. The results supported previous work that parental illness may place children at slight risk for poor psychosocial adjustment and behavioral problems. Parental illness was associated with lower adaptive skills and more behavioral problems in children. Children of ill parents showed resilience in their educational functioning in the event of parental illness as children's academic achievement and learning skills were not related to parental illness/health condition.

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2013

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“…In addition to the implications of role redistribution within the family, parental illness can affect a child's schooling by reducing the parent's involvement in the child's education. Illness can disrupt many aspects of parenting, not least those relating to the child's school activities (Chen and Fish 2013). One element that makes the family a key determinant of educational attainment is parental involvement.…”

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Parental Illness and Young People’s Education

2020

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of parental health problems on the probability of youths leaving upper secondary education before completion in Sweden, and to investigate potential gender differences in these effects. Medical and social microdata from Swedish administrative registers were used. The study population consisted of individuals born between 1987 and 1990 (N = 398,748) who were still alive and residing in Sweden in 2010. We employed a quasiexperimental pre-test post-test study design. Logistic regression was used to analyse the relationships between indicators of parental illness and young people's early school leaving in relation to health and sociodemographic confounders. Having had a mother or father with psychiatric, but not somatic, illness that necessitated hospitalisation after completing compulsory schooling was significantly associated with an increased probability of leaving upper secondary education. We found no significant gender-specific interaction effects. The existence of these effects in Sweden, a country with an extensive institutional welfare system, suggests that similar but more pronounced effects may exist in regions lacking such systems.

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Roles of physical functioning and comorbid mental illness of chronically ill parents and their spouses' health status in adolescent functioning

Chen

2023

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionEmerging research suggests that physically ill parents' psychological adjustment to illness and emotional well‐being may affect adolescents' psychosocial functioning. As people with chronic medical conditions often develop mental disorders, it is important to examine the influence of comorbidity of parental physical and mental health conditions on adolescents' functioning. In addition, the physical and mental health status of the spouses/partners of chronically ill parents needs to be explored to further understand the potential impact of parental chronic illness on adolescents' psychological distress and academic performance.MethodsCross‐sectional data from 164 parent–adolescent pairs were collected through online surveys in the United States between 2018 and 2019. Parent participants (Mage = 42.69, SD = 5.96) included parents who had been diagnosed with a chronic physical illness (e.g., multiple sclerosis, diabetes, chronic pain, cancer). Adolescent participants were middle‐ and high‐school‐aged children who lived with their physically ill parents (Mage = 14.34, SD = 2.07).ResultsHierarchical regression analyses indicated that comorbid mental illness of parental chronic illness and spousal mental health status were associated with adolescents' distress. The level of physical functioning of chronically ill parents was related to adolescents' academic performance.ConclusionParental chronic illness appears to affect adolescents' psychological and academic outcomes through distinct pathways. It is important to examine the comorbid mental health status of chronically ill parents and their spouses'/partners' mental health conditions to better understand the impact of parental chronic illness on adolescents' psychological adjustment.

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Demands of Maternal Chronic Illness and Children’s Educational Functioning: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Exploration of the Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Parental Illness on Children’s Educational and Behavioral Functioning Using a Large Taiwanese Sample

Exploration of the Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Parental Illness on Children’s Educational and Behavioral Functioning Using a Large Taiwanese Sample

Parental Illness and Young People’s Education

Roles of physical functioning and comorbid mental illness of chronically ill parents and their spouses' health status in adolescent functioning

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