Asthma Severity, Child Security, and Child Internalizing: Using Story Stem Techniques to Assess the Meaning Children Give to Family and Disease-Specific Events

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 857-867

  Winter, Marcia A ^a   Fiese, Barbara H ^b   Spagnola, Mary ^a   Anbar, Ran D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child behavior; Emotional security; Family relationships; Narratives; Pediatric asthma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPIROMETRY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 84255201038     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026191     Document Type: Article

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