Howell Kathryn H, Shapiro Danielle N, Layne Christopher M, Kaplow Julie B
a Department of Psychology , University of Memphis , Memphis , Tennessee , USA.
Death Stud. 2015 Jan-Jun;39(1-5):296-306. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2014.951497. Epub 2015 Apr 7.
The authors examined factors theorized to contribute to adaptive functioning in 56 parentally bereaved children (age 7-13) who had lost their caregiver within the previous 6 months. Adaptive functioning, defined as falling below clinical threshold levels on all measures of depression, posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and internalizing/externalizing symptoms, characterized 57% of the sample. Linear mixed modeling revealed that children in the adaptive functioning group had lower mean scores on avoidant coping and higher mean scores on coping efficacy, religiosity, parental positive reinforcement, and parental empathy. Findings suggest that adaptive functioning following parental loss is related to both child-intrinsic factors and child-extrinsic factors.
作者研究了理论上有助于56名父母丧亲儿童（年龄7至13岁）适应功能的因素，这些儿童在过去6个月内失去了照料者。适应功能被定义为在抑郁、创伤后应激、焦虑以及内化/外化症状的所有测量指标上均低于临床阈值水平，该样本中有57%具有此特征。线性混合模型显示，适应功能组的儿童在回避应对方面的平均得分较低，而在应对效能、宗教信仰、父母积极强化和父母同理心方面的平均得分较高。研究结果表明，父母丧亲后的适应功能与儿童内在因素和儿童外在因素均有关。
