Psychological Well-Being and Coping in Mothers of Youths with Autism, Down Syndrome, or Fragile X Syndrome

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 237-254+271

  Abbeduto, Leonard ^a,d   Seltzer, Marsha Mailick ^a   Shattuck, Paul ^a   Krauss, Marty Wyngaarden ^b   Orsmond, Gael ^c   Murphy, Melissa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DOWN SYNDROME; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCOME; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 11144355445     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2004)109<237:PWACIM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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