Coping and psychological distress in parents with Down syndrome children.

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by Cheng Paul. / Includes questionnaire in Chinese. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-66). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iv / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.viii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 - --- INTRODUCTION / Local studies on Down syndrome --- p.4 / Coping and psychological distress --- p.5 / Coping and psychological distress in Chinese families with mentally retarded children --- p.11 / Psychological correlates of coping --- p.13 / "Relationship between optimism, self-mastery, coping and psychological distress" --- p.16 / Purpose of the study --- p.18 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 - --- METHOD / Subjects --- p.22 / Measures --- p.25 / Procedures --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 - --- RESULTS / Group differences on coping --- p.31 / Factor analysis of the coping --- p.34 / "Internal consistency of LOT, SMS, & GHQ-30" --- p.37 / Inter-correlations among major variables for the three groups --- p.37 / Differences between mothers and fathers on the major variables --- p.39 / Prediction of psychological distress --- p.40 / Group differences on the major variables --- p.41 / Differences between mothers and fathers within a single family --- p.42 / Group differences on the major variables with family as the unit of analysis --- p.43 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 - --- DISCUSSION --- p.45 / REFERENCES --- p.60 / TABLES --- p.67 / FOOTNOTE --- p.83 / APPENDICES --- p.84

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Depression, Mental

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_319177
Date	January 1993
Contributors	Cheng, Paul., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Psychology.
Publisher	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Source Sets	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Text, bibliography
Format	print, viii, 89 leaves ; 30 cm.
Rights	Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)