Meaning in Life, Emotion-Oriented Coping, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Family Cohesion as Predictors of Family Satisfaction Among Mothers of Children With Disabilities

Lightsey, Owen Richard; Sweeney, James

doi:10.1177/1066480708317503

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“…Although this fi nding was not surprising, mothers seemed to describe other sources of meaning (e.g., health, work) in the context of value for the family (Delle Fave, Pozzo, Bassi, & Cetin, 2013). A similar link between meaning and family has been found among American mothers of disabled children (Lightsey & Sweeney, 2008). In this study, meaning in life was positively related to family cohesion and family satisfaction.…”

Section: Family Relationships and Meaning In Lifesupporting

confidence: 57%

You, me, and meaning: an integrative review of connections between relationships and meaning in life

O’Donnell

Bentele

Grossman

et al. 2014

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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Section: Family Relationships and Meaning In Lifesupporting

confidence: 57%

You, me, and meaning: an integrative review of connections between relationships and meaning in life

O’Donnell

Bentele

Grossman

et al. 2014

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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“…Since this was a cross-sectional study, it is impossible to determine directionality and assess whether emotion-oriented coping caused greater parent and family problems or if existing parent and family problems eventually led to increased emotional coping. Either of these possible explanations are viable (e.g., Lightsey and Sweeney 2008), and it is likely that they are bi-directional, such that emotion-oriented coping impacts family functioning as family problems leads to increased emotion-oriented coping. All of these are interesting questions for future research.…”

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confidence: 95%

The Impact of Child Symptom Severity on Stress Among Parents of Children with ASD: The Moderating Role of Coping Styles

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We examined the impact of autism severity and parental coping strategies on stress in parents of children with ASD. Children's autism symptoms and parental coping strategies (task-oriented, emotion-oriented, social diversion, and distraction) were evaluated as predictors of four types of parental stress (parent and family problems, pessimism, child characteristics, and physical incapacity). In order to examine potential buffering effects of coping strategies on stress associated with the child's symptom severity, the interactive effects of autism symptoms with coping strategies were also examined. Participants included 77 primary caregivers of a child with ASD. Using multiple regression analyses, emotion-oriented coping scores were associated with more parent and family problems, and task-oriented coping was associated with lower physical incapacity scores. The child's autism severity was the strongest and most consistent predictor of stress. Further, emotion-oriented coping moderated the relationship between pessimism stress and autism symptomatology, and distraction coping was a moderator between parent and family stress and autism symptoms. Results indicate that increasing our knowledge of the coping strategies that are more or less effective and under what conditions some coping strategies may be either beneficial or harmful for this population of parents has direct implications for treatment and parent education efforts.

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“…Family cohesion allows families to work together to directly express their feelings and communicate with one another, which in turn facilitates their ability to solve problems effectively (Edwards & Clarke, 2004). Family cohesion has been shown to be related to psychological well-being (Uruk, Sayger, & Cogdal, 2007) and effective coping (Edwards & Clarke, 2004;Lightsey & Sweeney, 2008;Rivera et al, 2008;Weisman, Rosales, Kymalainen, & Armesto, 2005).…”

Section: Family Cohesion As a Resourcementioning

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Family fairness and cohesion in marital dyads: Mediating processes between work–family conflict and couple psychological distress

Huffman

Matthews

Irving

2016

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

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The well‐being of employed adults is linked to demands and resources in both work and family domains. This study takes a family systems approach to understand how an employee's work–family conflict and their spouse's observed work–family conflict can create stress within a family unit by negatively impacting employee and spousal perceptions of fairness in the division of household labour. This decreased fairness is related to reduced family cohesion, which we argue is a key resource in the family domain. These variables were assessed by data collected from military personnel and their spouses in a sample of 78 marital dyads. Analyses using the actor–partner interdependence model and maximum likelihood bootstrapping supported our contention that work–family conflict is related to family cohesion through perceived fairness in the division of household labour. However, after accounting for the strong direct effect employee's reported work‐to‐family conflict has on employee's psychological distress, reduced family cohesion was only directly related to the psychological distress of employee's spouses, and not employees themselves. We suggest that these findings support the importance of taking a family systems approach to more fully contextualize the impact of dual‐domain challenges on employee well‐being. Practitioner points Organizations need to take the family into consideration when assessing employee well‐being. Work–family conflict directly impacts an employee's psychological well‐being and has the potential to create distress within the employee's family. Employers should provide employees with more family‐supportive resources to reduce the strain created by work–family conflict.

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Meaning in Life, Emotion-Oriented Coping, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Family Cohesion as Predictors of Family Satisfaction Among Mothers of Children With Disabilities

Cited by 46 publications

References 67 publications

You, me, and meaning: an integrative review of connections between relationships and meaning in life

You, me, and meaning: an integrative review of connections between relationships and meaning in life

The Impact of Child Symptom Severity on Stress Among Parents of Children with ASD: The Moderating Role of Coping Styles

Family fairness and cohesion in marital dyads: Mediating processes between work–family conflict and couple psychological distress

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