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Austin, Joan Kessner – 1990
The Double ABCX Model of Family Adjustment and Adaptation, a model that predicts adaptation to chronic stressors on the family, was extended by dividing it into attitudes, coping, and adaptation of parents and child separately, and by including variables relevant to child adaptation to epilepsy or asthma. The extended model was tested on 246…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Asthma, Attitudes
Austin, Joan Kessner – 1990
This study aimed to describe demographic, seizure, and family characteristics associated with good and poor adaptation to childhood epilepsy and contrast them with demographic, asthma, and family characteristics associated with good and poor adaptation to childhood asthma. Children with asthma were selected as a comparison sample because epilepsy…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Asthma, Comparative Analysis