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Direct linkNamkung, Eun Ha; Greenberg, Jan S.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Floyd, Frank J. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This research examined how parenting adults with developmental disabilities affects parental well-being beyond midlife and into old age. Parents of adults with developmental disabilities (n = 249) and parents of adults without disabilities (n = 9,016), studied in their early 50s and mid-60s, were longitudinally tracked into their early 70s.…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Parents, Well Being
Piazza, Vivian E.; Floyd, Frank J.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Greenberg, Jan S. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Among aging parents (mean age = 65, "N" = 139) of adults with developmental disabilities, we examined the effectiveness of multiple forms of coping with caregiver burden. As expected, accommodative strategies of adapting to stress (secondary engagement), used frequently in later life, buffered the impact of caregiver burden, whereas…
Descriptors: Coping, Mental Health, Aging (Individuals), Parents
Esbensen, Anna J.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Silverman, Wayne – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Parental characteristics were significant predictors of health, functional abilities, and behavior problems in adults with Down syndrome ("n" ?=? 75) over a 22-year time span, controlling for initial levels and earlier changes in these outcomes. Lower levels of behavior problems were predicted by improvements in maternal depressive…
Descriptors: Parents, Individual Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Behavior Problems
