title: Coping with information style and family burden: Possible roles of self-stigma and hope among parents of children in a psychiatric inpatient unit.
abstract: Parents of children who are hospitalized in inpatient psychiatric units must cope with significant challenges. One of these challenges relates to the way in which they cope with illness-related information. The current study examined the relationship between two such coping styles - monitoring and blunting - and family burden among parents of children in a psychiatric inpatient unit. Moreover, the possible moderating roles played by hope and self-stigma in these associations were also examined.
  
  
  
  Questionnaires regarding coping with information style, self-stigma, hope and family burden were administered to 70 parents.
  
  
  
  A main positive effect of hope and a main negative effect of self-stigma were uncovered. An interaction between self-stigma and monitoring was also revealed, suggesting that for parents with high self-stigma, compared to those with low self-stigma, more monitoring was related to more burden.
  
  
  
  Tailoring family interventions according to coping style and self-stigma is highly recommended as a mean to reduce the family burden of parents whose child is hospitalized in a psychiatric inpatient unit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Electronic address: hasoni@mail.biu.ac.il.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hasson-Ohayon
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Psychotic Disorders, GGZ Drenthe, Assen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: G H M
authors.initials: GHM
authors.lastname: Pijnenborg
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben-Pazi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taitel
authors.affiliation: School of Behavioral Sciences, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goldzweig
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D057545:Social Stigma; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires