Disease-related stress in parents of children who are overweight: relations with parental anxiety and childhood psychosocial functioning.
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.
Ohleyer
Vanessa
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
Freddo
Marianna
M
Bagner
Daniel M
DM
Simons
Laura E
LE
Geffken
Gary R
GR
Silverstein
Janet H
JH
Storch
Eric A
EA
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*