Evaluating the Malaise Inventory

Hirst, Michael

doi:10.1007/bf00583528

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“…health (Sameroff, Seifer, Barocas, Zax, & Greenspan, 1987). High test-retest reliabili-The Malaise Inventory has been used to ties have been demonstrated in these studstudy the relation between family stress and ies (e.g.. Hirst, 1983); at age 23 in the NCDS mental health in Great Britain (Grant, Nolan, we calculated an alpha reliability of . summary score does not differ across socioeconomic status, and it has discriminated significantly between women with and without psychiatric disorder.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce on the Mental Health of Young Adults: A Developmental Perspective

Chase‐Lansdale¹,

Cherlin²,

Kiernan³

1995

Child Development

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The effects of parental divorce during childhood and adolescence on the mental health of young adults (age 23) were examined, using the National Child Development Study (NCDS), a longitudinal, multimethod, nationally representative survey of all children born in Great Britain during 1 week in 1958 (N = 17,414). Children were assessed at birth and subsequently followed up at ages 7, 11, 16, and 23 by means of maternal and child interviews, and by psychological, school, and medical assessments. Parental divorce had a moderate, long-term negative impact on adult mental health, as measured by the Malaise Inventory total score, and controlling for economic status, children's emotional problems, and school performance preceding marital dissolution. The likelihood of scoring above the clinical cutoff of the Malaise Inventory rose from 8% to 11% due to parental divorce. This indicated that the relative risk of serious emotional disorders increased in the aftermath of divorce, but that the large majority of individuals did not exhibit such risks. Path analyses revealed that the negative effects of divorce on adult mental health operated indirectly through higher emotional problems and lower levels of school achievement and family economic status at age 16. Results related to timing of divorce, remarriage, and interactions between age 7 emotional problems and divorce, and between age 7 emotional problems and child gender, are also discussed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce on the Mental Health of Young Adults: A Developmental Perspective

Chase‐Lansdale¹,

Cherlin²,

Kiernan³

1995

Child Development

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“…It has been used in a number of studies of carer stress, particularly in the field of mental handicap (Quine & Pahl 1985), as well as with carers of the elderly (Quine & Chamley 1986, Wright 1986. Whilst there has been some suggestion that it might not represent a unidimensional measure (Hirst 1983), the most recent statistical evidence indicates that it is a reliable, valid and unidimensional instrument (Quine & Chamley 1986, Bebbington & Quine 1987.…”

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Addressing the needs of informal carers: a neglected area of nursing practice

Nolan¹,

Grant

1989

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The British government's philosophy of maintaining dependency groups in the community, coupled with the rising numbers of frail elderly and dwindling pool of informal carers, has highlighted the need for appropriate professional interventions in this area. However, a failure to adequately conceptualize the needs of carers has, in the past, resulted in interventions often being inappropriate, irrelevant or unavailable. This paper advocates a major role for the nursing profession in redressing this balance. Using the findings of a postal survey on the problems and satisfactions of caring, the authors suggest how nurses might modify their current practice to maximize their contribution to this important but neglected area of their work.

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“…The 24 symptoms are positive responses to: having backaches, feeling tired, feeling miserable and depressed, having headaches, worrying, having difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep, waking unnecessarily early in the morning, worrying about health, getting into a violent rage, getting annoyed by people, having twitches, becoming scared for no reason, being scared to be alone, being easily upset, being frightened of going out alone, being jittery, suffering from indigestion, suffering from upset stomach, having poor appetite, being worn out by little things, experiencing racing heart, having bad pains in your eyes, being troubled by rheumatism, and having had a nervous breakdown . Although concerns have been expressed about the dimensionality of the Malaise Inventory [38], it is robust [39] and has good psychometric qualities [40]. Rodgers et al .…”

Section: Development Of the Emotional And Behavioural Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%