title: A comparison of stress and coping by fathers of adolescents with mental retardation and fathers of adolescents without mental retardation.
abstract: This investigation was an attempt to provide comparative information regarding stress and coping in fathers of adolescents with mental retardation and fathers of adolescents without mental retardation. Subjects for the study were 40 fathers of adolescents with mental retardation and 31 fathers of adolescents without mental retardation.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Boston.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Houser
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seligman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*