title: Disease-related stress in parents of children who are overweight: relations with parental anxiety and childhood psychosocial functioning.
abstract: The psychometric properties of the Pediatric Inventory for Parents, a measure of chronic disease-related parental stress, were examined in a sample of 72 children and adolescents who are overweight. The correlations between disease-related parental stress and general parenting stress, parental and child anxiety and children's behavioral and psychological maladjustment were examined. The results demonstrated excellent internal consistency and modest correlations with a measure of general parenting stress. Significant and positive relations of medium to large effect sizes between disease-related parenting stress and internalizing and externalizing maladjustment were found. Internalizing and externalizing behavior moderated the relations between disease-related parenting stress and parental distress. Recommendations for use of the Pediatric Inventory for Parents in clinical settings and future research directions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ohleyer
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Freddo
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Bagner
authors.forename: Laura E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.forename: Gary R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Geffken
authors.forename: Janet H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Silverstein
authors.forename: Eric A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Storch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis*