This qualitative study involved interviewing 40 Chinese Americans residing in Lincoln and Omaha, NE. and Naperville, IL, on their perceptions of family strengths and aceulturative stress. Themes related to family strengths include family support leading to achieving a renewed sense of family, contextual support from friends and community, communication among family members. spiritual well-being...

OBJECTIVE To examine prospective associations between chronic stress in the parent-child and family systems and subsequent rates of illnesses and the activity of natural killer (NK) cells in children. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING The Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong, Rochester, NY, from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2003. PARTICIPANTS One hundred sixty-nine socioeconomically...

With the increase in the proportion of dual-earner families and work stress, there are increasing emphases placed on the study of work-family conflict (WFC). The paper reviews that antecedents of WFC from aspects of individual, work and family. Findings and implications include the effects of individual factors like demographic and personality variables, the influences of work variables like wo...

AIM Having patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) remains an extremely stressful live event for family members, especially for those having to confront with brain death patients. The aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among relatives of brain dead patients in ICU in Kerman, Iran. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, using DASS- 42 questionnair...

The present study used a Double-ABCX model to explore parental stress in 48 British families with children with developmental disabilities and behaviour problems in relation to certain child characteristics, resources, parents' perceptions and coping styles. Results indicated that the strongest predictors of parental stress were family coping style and parental internal locus of control. Parent...

BACKGROUND Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, collectively referred to as dystrophinopathies, are recessive X-linked disorders characterized by progressive muscle weakness and ultimately cardiac and respiratory failure. Immediate family members are often primary caregivers of individuals with a dystrophinopathy. METHODS We explored the impact of this role by inviting primary caregivers...

The present study investigated whether cortisol stress responses of 6-year-olds were associated with their behavioral functioning at school. Additionally, the moderating role of stress in the family environment was examined. To this end, 149 healthy children (Mage  = 6.09 years; 70 girls) participated in an age-appropriate innovative social evaluative stress test. Saliva cortisol samples were c...

Family cohesion relates to positive outcomes for both parents and children. Maintaining cohesion may be especially challenging for families of adolescents with developmental disabilities, yet this has been studied infrequently in this group. We investigated cohesion in these families, particularly with respect to partner stress, using the notion of the 'spillover effect' as a model. Adolescents...