Parents'personality and parenting stress in families of children with spina bifida

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 665-674

  Vermaes, I P R ^a,b   Janssens, J M A M ^b   Mullaart, R A ^c   Vinck, A ^c   Gerris, J R M ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Parental adjustment; Parenting stress; Personality traits; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFECATION DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINA BIFIDA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD; DISABLED CHILDREN; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; NETHERLANDS; PARENTING; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 49349108397     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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