‘We are survivors too’: African‐American youths' experiences of coping with parental breast cancer

Davey, Maureen; Tubbs, Carolyn Y.; Kissil, Karni; Niño, Alba

doi:10.1002/pon.1712

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“…Intrinsic religiosity refers to private religious practices such as prayer that demonstrate devotion to the divine (Levin et al., ). Adolescents may conceive of prayer as a way to cope with SLEs, and religious AA adolescents often report that they pray to receive divine assistance in their academics (Butler‐Barnes, Williams, & Chavous, ), treatment of physical illness (Davey, Tubbs, Kissil, & Niño, ), and their relational life (e.g., peer–sibling relations; McHale, Kim, Whiteman, & Crouter, ).…”

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Religious Development in African American Adolescents: Growth Patterns That Offer Protection

Lee

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2017

Child Development

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Although religiosity promotes resilient outcomes in African American (AA) adolescents, there is a lack of research that examines the protective role of religious development in the context of stressful life events (SLEs). In 1,595 AA adolescents, a cohort-sequential design was used from ages 12 to 18 to examine subtypes of religiosity, as well as distinct developmental patterns within subtypes. The protective role of religious development was also examined in the context of SLEs. The study findings indicated two subtypes of religiosity-extrinsic and intrinsic religiosity-as well as low and high developmental patterns in the identified subtypes. Furthermore, the protective influence of extrinsic and intrinsic religiosity gradually diminished from age 12 to 18 in the context of SLEs.

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Section: The Meaning Of Religiositymentioning

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Religious Development in African American Adolescents: Growth Patterns That Offer Protection

Lee

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2017

Child Development

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“…With regard to social support, general adolescent adjustment has been directly linked with high social support, as close relationships are crucial indicators of adjustment, and support from others was associated with positive affect and well‐being . Social support has also been found helpful to adolescents who experience parental cancer . In addition to direct effects on adjustment, social support has been shown to buffer the relationship between perceived stress and psychological adjustment, and this moderating effect is mediated by problem‐focused coping .…”

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“…[10][11][12][13] Social support has also been found helpful to adolescents who experience parental cancer. 14 In addition to direct effects on adjustment, social support has been shown to buffer the relationship between perceived stress and psychological adjustment, and this moderating effect is mediated by problem-focused coping. 12,13,15 This effect, referred to as the stress buffering hypothesis 16,17 whereby high social support buffers the negative consequences of a stressor, has not been examined in the context of adolescents who experience parental cancer.…”

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Individual predictors of adolescent adjustment to maternal cancer: The role of perceived stress, coping, social support, attachment, and self‐efficacy

2018

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Background Cancer is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality around the world. The National Cancer Registry of Ireland reported in 2015 that there were 9312 new cases of female cancers per year, breast cancer being the most common type diagnosed. Research has identified that parental cancer is a stressful situation that can have a strong impact on adolescents' lives; however, some adolescents can turn a negative event into a way of enhancing their skills and psychological resources. This variability needs to be explored further to identify how individual differences contribute to different adjustment experiences for adolescents whose mothers are diagnosed with cancer, namely differences in adolescent coping, self‐efficacy, social support, life satisfaction, and attachment. Aim The objective of this study was to examine the relative impact of perceived stress, coping, perceived social support, maternal attachment, and self‐efficacy on adolescent adjustment (mood and life satisfaction). Method Data was collected from 40 adolescents within 38 months of a maternal cancer diagnosis. They completed online questionnaires assessing perceived stress, coping, perceived social support, attachment, self‐efficacy, and adjustment (life satisfaction, negative affect, positive affect, depression, and anxiety). Results Hierarchical regression analyses showed that perceived stress and coping were the strongest predictors of adjustment explaining variance on all adjustment indices. Maternal attachment, perceived social support, and self‐efficacy were less powerful predictors of adjustment. The model, however, failed to explain any variance on depression and anxiety. Moderation analyses revealed that social support moderated the relationship between perceived stress and positive affect for adolescents with high levels of perceived social support. Conclusions Findings show that lower perceived stress and positive coping were the best predictors of adjustment in adolescents facing maternal cancer. Results suggest that adolescents could be screened for levels of perceived stress and coping style to identify adolescents who are at risk of poor adjustment when they are adjusting to maternal cancer.

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“…Having a parent with a serious illness or injury, for example, cancer, is a condition that affects children's health and well-being (Grabiak, Bender, & Puskar, 2007;Osborn, 2007;Socialstyrelsen, 2013;Visser, Huizinga, van der Graaf, Hoekstra, & Hoekstra-Weebers, 2004) and thus can also affect the school situation (Hjern, Berg, Rostila, & Vinnerljung, 2013). When a parent becomes ill the family's everyday life changes (Davey, Tubbs, Kissil, & Niño, 2011;Huang, O'Connor, & Lee, 2014;Semple & McCaughan, 2013) and children have described how the illness rules the family's everyday life (Helseth & Ulfsaet, 2003).…”

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Contributing to making the school a safe place for the child: School nurses’ perceptions of their assignment when caring for children having parents with serious physical illness

2017

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AimTo explore how school nurses perceive their assignment when caring for children having parents with serious physical illness.DesignAn explorative inductive qualitative design.MethodThe study is based on interviews with 16 school nurses. The interviews were subjected to qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe main category, “Contribute in making the school a safe place for the child”, reveals how the school nurses try to contribute to making the school a safe place for a child when his/her parent has a serious physical illness. They support children through individual support, as well as at an overall level in the school health team to make the school, as an organization, a safe place. Routines and collaboration to recognize the child when his/her parent has become ill is described as crucial to accomplishing this assignment.

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‘We are survivors too’: African‐American youths' experiences of coping with parental breast cancer

Cited by 45 publications

References 25 publications

Religious Development in African American Adolescents: Growth Patterns That Offer Protection

Religious Development in African American Adolescents: Growth Patterns That Offer Protection

Individual predictors of adolescent adjustment to maternal cancer: The role of perceived stress, coping, social support, attachment, and self‐efficacy

Contributing to making the school a safe place for the child: School nurses’ perceptions of their assignment when caring for children having parents with serious physical illness

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