Trute Barry, Benzies Karen M, Worthington Catherine, Reddon John R, Moore Melanie
Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada.
J Intellect Dev Disabil. 2010 Mar;35(1):36-43. doi: 10.3109/13668250903496328.
Mothers' cognitive appraisal of the family impact of childhood disability and their positive affect as a psychological coping resource, both key elements of the process model of stress and coping, were tested as explanatory variables of family adjustment.
In a sample of Canadian families, 195 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disability completed telephone interviews.
In regression modelling, 35% of the variance in family adjustment was explained by mothers' positive cognitive appraisal of family impacts of childhood disability and by their positivity (ratio of positive to negative affect). After controlling for positivity, negative cognitive appraisal of family impacts of childhood disability was non-significant.
Family adjustment to childhood disability is associated with elements of strength in mothers' psychological coping; namely, their ability to perceive positive family consequences of childhood disability and to maintain higher proportions of positive emotion in their daily activities. The findings of this study provide support for the broaden-and-build theory to explain the role of positivity in mothers' coping and adjustment to childhood disability.
母亲对童年残疾对家庭影响的认知评估以及她们作为心理应对资源的积极情绪，这两个压力与应对过程模型的关键要素，被作为家庭适应的解释变量进行了测试。
在一个加拿大家庭样本中，195名智力和发育残疾儿童的母亲完成了电话访谈。
在回归模型中，家庭适应中35%的方差可由母亲对童年残疾家庭影响的积极认知评估及其积极情绪（积极情绪与消极情绪的比率）来解释。在控制了积极情绪后，母亲对童年残疾家庭影响的消极认知评估不显著。
家庭对童年残疾的适应与母亲心理应对中的优势要素相关；即她们感知童年残疾积极家庭后果的能力以及在日常活动中保持较高比例积极情绪的能力。本研究结果为拓展与建构理论提供了支持，该理论解释了积极情绪在母亲应对和适应童年残疾中的作用。
