Children's Psychological Distress Following the Death of a Parent.

Raveis, Victoria H.; Karus, Daniel; Siegel, Karolynn

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ERIC Number: EJ600497

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Children's Psychological Distress Following the Death of a Parent.

Raveis, Victoria H.; Karus, Daniel; Siegel, Karolynn

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v28 n2 p165-80 Apr 1999

Data from 83 families with schoolage children in which a parent had died of cancer during the preceding 19 months indicate that the child's perception of the surviving parent's openness in parental communication was found to be significantly correlated with lower levels of depressive symptoms and state anxiety in the children. (SLD)

Descriptors: Anxiety, Cancer, Children, Communication (Thought Transfer), Death, Emotional Response, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Psychological Patterns

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Research supported in part by Grant PRB-24A from the American Cancer Society and Grant MH41967 from the National Institute of Mental Health.