Children's coping strategies and coping efficacy: relations to parent socialization, child adjustment, and familial alcoholism.
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.
Smith
Cynthia L
CL
Arizona State University, USA. smithcl@vt.edu
Eisenberg
Nancy
N
Spinrad
Tracy L
TL
Chassin
Laurie
L
Morris
Amanda Sheffield
AS
Kupfer
Anne
A
Liew
Jeffrey
J
Cumberland
Amanda
A
Valiente
Carlos
C
Kwok
Oi-Man
OM
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