title: Children's coping strategies and coping efficacy: relations to parent socialization, child adjustment, and familial alcoholism.
abstract: The relations of children's coping strategies and coping efficacy to parent socialization and child adjustment were examined in a sample of school-age children that included families in which some of the grandparents and/or parents had an alcoholism diagnosis. Parents and older children reported on the children's coping strategies; parents reported on their parenting behavior; and teachers reported on children's externalizing and internalizing problems. Measures of parent socialization were associated with parents' and children's reports of active coping strategies and parents' reports of both support-seeking coping and coping efficacy. Some of these relations were moderated by familial alcohol status. Children higher in parent-reported active/support-seeking coping and coping efficacy were rated lower in teacher-reported externalizing and internalizing adjustment problems. The findings were consistent with the view that active/support-seeking coping and coping efficacy mediated the association of parent socialization to children's psychological adjustment and that this relation was sometimes moderated by parental alcohol status.
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University, USA. smithcl@vt.edu
authors.forename: Cynthia L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.forename: Tracy L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Spinrad
authors.forename: Laurie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chassin
authors.forename: Amanda Sheffield
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kupfer
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liew
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cumberland
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valiente
authors.forename: Oi-Man
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Kwok
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires