Combat experience and emotional health: impairment and resilience in later life
Humans; Male; Adult; Memory; Longitudinal Studies; Risk Factors; adolescent; P.H.S.; Research Support; U.S. Gov't; Adaptation; Psychological; Stress Disorders; War; Human Development; Non-P.H.S.; Veterans/psychology; Post-Traumatic/psychology; Assertiveness; Ego
War's influence on emotional health includes potential psychological gains as well as losses. In a sample of 149 veterans from longitudinal samples at the Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, this study explores two questions on the legacy of combat in World War II and the Korean conflict. The first concerns the subjective experience or meanings of combat that veterans hold in later life, with particular attention to how such accounts are linked to the severity of combat and postwar adaptations. The second question links these accounts to the psychosocial functioning of veterans before the war and in later life using reports from veterans and their spouses and Q-sort ratings in adolescence and at age 40. Findings center on veterans of heavy combat. Compared to the noncombatants and light combat veterans, these men were at greater risk of emotional and behavioral problems in the postwar years. In mid-life, they hold mixed memories of painful losses and life benefits associated with military experience. Clinical ratings show that heavy combat veterans became more resilient and less helpless over time when compared to other men. As in the case of life events generally, short- and long-term effects may impair and enhance personal growth.
1989
Elder GH; Clipp EC
Journal Of Personality
1989
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1989.tb00485.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1111/j.1467-6494.1989.tb00485.x</a>
Gait, Balance, and Coordination Impairments in Niemann Pick Disease, Type C1
adolescent; retrospective study; priority journal; scoring system; school child; outcome assessment; preschool child; intervention study; human; article; child; female; male; adult; clinical article; young adult; comparative study; body equilibrium; stabilography; performance; neurologic examination; balance impairment; coordination disorder; gait disorder; Niemann Pick disease; 2 hydroxypropyl beta cyclodextrin; 94035-02-6 (2 hydroxypropyl beta cyclodextrin); case control study; clinical evaluation; disease severity assessment; human development; molecular stability; motion analysis system; NIH NPC Neurologic Severity Scale; research; spatiotemporal analysis; upper limb; vts 270; tone and motor problems; NPC; trajectory; characteristics
This is the first study to objectively measure gait, balance, and upper limb coordination in a group of patients with NPC1 and compare the results to age and gender matched controls. This is also the first study to report effect sizes in these measures. Spatiotemporal gait analysis, static and dynamic posturography, and upper limb reaching motion analysis were performed. The findings showed that the NPC1 subjects had statistically significant deficits on 12 out of the 16 parameters investigated compared to controls, and large effect sizes for all but 1 parameter. When ranking the variables in terms of the effect sizes, the top 5 included at least 1 parameter from each of the 3 motor domains investigated. These results can provide insight to clinical researchers on the selection of outcome measures for longitudinal and interventional studies.
Sansare A; Zampieri C; Alter K; Stanley C; Farhat N; Keener L A; Porter F
Journal of Child Neurology
2018
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/0883073817741054" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/0883073817741054</a>
Life Markers in Biographical Narratives of People from Three Cohorts: A Life Span Perspective in Its Historical Context
Adolescent Transitions
Human development is often understood as an interplay between biological, sociohistorical, and social factors, as well as individual developmental actions. However, historical influences on development have rarely been investigated. The present study discusses societal change in the course of this century and investigates its impact on the life course by analyzing biographical narratives. This impact is illustrated by results from a study where participants from three birth cohorts (1920–25; 1945–50; 1970–75) were interviewed about important markers in their experienced and expected biographies. Although distribution of life markers over the life span was analogous across cohorts, participants from the younger cohorts perceived themselves as having more control on setting important life markers across their biographies. Their narratives referred more often to personal and less often to contextual and sociohistorical themes.
2001
Grob A; Krings F; Bangerter A
Human Development
2001
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Posttraumatic growth in parents caring for a child with a life-limiting illness: A structural equation model.
Human Development; Adult; Aged; Caregivers/psychology; Child; Disabled Children/psychology; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Models Psychological; Palliative Care/psychology; Parents/psychology; Young Adult
When parents first meet their child, they take on the entwined joys and burdens of caring for another person. Providing care for their child becomes the basic expectation, during health and illness, through the developmental milestones, into adulthood and beyond. For those parents who have a child who is born with or is later diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, parents also become caregivers in ways that parents of predominantly well children do not. While the circumstances are undisputedly stressful, for some parents benefits can co-occur along with the negative outcomes. This article tests two structural equation models of possible factors that allow these parent caregivers to experience growth in the circumstances. The diagnosis and illness of a child in the context of pediatric palliative care is a very complex experience for parents. The stresses are numerous and life-changing and yet the parents in this research demonstrated growth as measured by the Post Traumatic Growth Inventory. It appears that particular personal resources reflected in personal well-being are a precursor to the process of positive meaning making, which then, in turn, contributes to growth. The path to posttraumatic growth is not a simple one, but this research contributes to further elucidating it.
Cadell S; Hemsworth D; Smit QT; Steele R; Davies E; Liben S; Straatman L; Siden H
The American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry
2014
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/h0099384" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1037/h0099384</a>
Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the posttraumatic growth inventory among cancer patients
Female; Humans; Male; Adult; Emotions; Aged; Middle Aged; Netherlands; Reproducibility of Results; 80 and over; Adaptation; Psychological; Statistical; Psychological Tests; Parent caregivers; Stress Disorders; Neoplasms/psychology; Factor Analysis; Human Development; Post-Traumatic/diagnosis/psychology
In the current study, we investigated the psychometric properties of a Dutch translation of the posttraumatic growth inventory in a heterogeneous group of cancer patients. Its original five-factor structure was maintained. The internal consistency of the total scale, as well as its subdimensions, was satisfactory. As expected, the experience of posttraumatic growth was positively related to: emotional expression about the illness, openness to experience, and feelings of innerness. Furthermore, the scale appeared to be sensitive for the demographics age and gender. The experience of posttraumatic growth was not related to negative feelings such as avoidance, anxiety, depression, and neuroticism. Our Dutch translation of the instrument appeared to be a sound measure for the experience of posttraumatic growth in cancer patients.
2006
Jaarsma TA; Pool G; Sanderman R; Ranchor AV
Psycho-oncology
2006
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/pon.1026" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1002/pon.1026</a>
Transition: a conceptual analysis in the context of siblings of children with cancer
adolescent; Child; Female; Humans; bereavement; Neoplasms; Adolescent Psychology; Attitude to Health; Siblings; Oncology Nursing; Nurse's Role; Pediatric Nursing; Child Psychology; Life Change Events; Sibling Relations; Nursing Methodology Research; Nursing Evaluation Research; Family Health; Adaptation; Psychological; Models; Human Development; sibling bereavement; Nursing; health promotion
Transition has been described by many disciplines. However, the concept of transition has yet to be applied to the sibling experience of childhood cancer. Understanding the transitions that siblings encounter is important because it will offer nurses new possibilities for enhancing siblings' outcomes. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to provide a conceptual framework that will assist nurses in their efforts to promote healthy transitions in siblings of children with cancer. The method of concept analysis developed by Walker and Avant [Walker, L., & Avant, K. (1995). Concept analysis. In Strategies for theory construction in nursing (3rd ed.) (pp. 37-54). Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lane.] is employed. The result is a definition of transition that is relevant and useful for research and clinical practice in pediatric oncology.
2006-08
Wilkins KL; Woodgate RL
Journal Of Pediatric Nursing
2006
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2006.01.090" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1016/j.pedn.2006.01.090</a>