The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between a family's use of normalization and the psychosocial adjustment (personal adjustment, role skills, and perceived competence) of children with chronic physical disorders (CPD). Seventy-six mothers and their CPD children participated in the study. Families' use of normalization was related to CPD child's psychosocial adjustment. Specifically, mothers' perceptions that their families and other people perceived their family and CPD child as normal were strongly related to overall high personal adjustment, better peer relationships, and better productivity in the CPD child as well as less reported anxiety and depression, less dependence, less withdrawal, and less hostility. However, a family's use of normalization was not related to the CPD child's perception of self-competence in this study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68225 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Murphy, Frances |
| Contributors | Gottlieb, Laurie (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (School of Nursing.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001397256, proquestno: AAIMM94483, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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