Mother child appraised involvement in coping with diabetes stressors and emotional adjustment.
OBJECTIVE
To examine how children's and mother's appraisals of each other's involvement in coping with diabetes events are associated with emotional adjustment.


METHODS
One hundred and twenty-seven children (ages 10-15 years) with type 1 diabetes and their mothers reported on their own emotional adjustment and how each other was involved in coping strategies surrounding diabetes stressful events.


RESULTS
Appraisals that mothers and children were uninvolved with each other's stressors were associated with greater depressive symptoms and less positive mood; children's appraisals of mother's supportive involvement with children's less depressive symptoms, and appraisals of collaborative involvement with less depressive symptoms and more positive mood for both mothers and children. Appraised control was most detrimental for children for older females and for mothers of younger children.


CONCLUSIONS
Collaborative involvement in coping efforts may be an important resource for addressing negative emotions that both children and mothers experience surrounding type 1 diabetes, especially across adolescence.
Berg
Cynthia A
CA
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room #502, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. cynthia.berg@psych.utah.edu
Wiebe
Deborah J
DJ
Beveridge
Ryan M
RM
Palmer
Debra L
DL
Korbel
Carolyn D
CD
Upchurch
Renn
R
Swinyard
Michael T
MT
Lindsay
Rob
R
Donaldson
David L
DL
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D002648:Child; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*