title: Predictors of flourishing among children with hearing loss.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine parent report of flourishing in children with hearing impairments compared to children without hearing impairments, and to explore whether school engagement and bullying related to child flourishing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 655 children with hearing impairments and 44, 618 children without hearing impairments who were 10-17 years of age. Caregivers completed telephone interviews about their child's functioning for the National Survey of Children's Health.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children without hearing loss had higher parent-reported flourishing compared to children with hearing loss when controlling for child demographics (i.e., race, age, sex). School engagement was positively related to flourishing of children with hearing loss. Bullying behaviors were not related to flourishing of children with hearing loss.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Improving school engagement may increase flourishing of children with hearing loss, which is critical given that children with hearing loss experience lower flourishing than children without hearing loss. Examining the relationships among other risk and resilience factors and flourishing for children with hearing loss will provide information for interventions to enhance the adaptation of these children.
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati, School of Human Services, PO Box 210068, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA. Electronic address: laura.nabors@uc.edu.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nabors
authors.affiliation: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 3015, MLC 7039, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. Electronic address: odarcc@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Cathleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Odar Stough
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati, School of Human Services, PO Box 210068, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA. Electronic address: ashley.merianos@uc.edu.
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Merianos
authors.affiliation: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 3015, MLC 7039, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. Electronic address: james.peugh@cchmc.org.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peugh
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Children; Flourishing; Hearing loss; Resilience; School engagement