(DOWNLOAD) "Factor Analyses of the Parenting Stress Survey Using a Clinical Sample and Its Clinical Implications" by Caroline C. Rycyna " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Factor Analyses of the Parenting Stress Survey Using a Clinical Sample and Its Clinical Implications
- Author : Caroline C. Rycyna
- Release Date : January 18, 2013
- Genre: Psychology,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Spirituality,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7290 KB
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Parenting a child with mental illness (MI) can be an overwhelming responsibility. Parents need to cope with a variety of challenges in having a child with MI. The Parent Stress Survey (PSS; Sisson & Fristad, 2001) is a 25-item parent/caregiver self-report instrument that assesses parental/caregiver stress due to a variety of factors related to raising a child with bipolar disorder (BD). The PSS was tested and refined via surveying 732 caregivers of children with BD via the Child and Adolescent BipolarFoundation (CABF). Sisson found six factors: physical/emotional stress, stigma, time conflicts, outside accusations, family tension, and insurance/financial issues. The purpose of the current study is to conduct an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) as part of the validation process of the Parent Stress Survey with data from a representative and diagnostically controlled sample of parents with children with Axis I Disorders. The current study analyzes a subset of data from the Longitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms (LAMS) Study.A seven-factor, 21-item solution was found and then confirmed with another sample. The seven factors are: time constraints, parental health, family tension, insurance issues, work absence, child effectiveness, and stigma. However, due to an insufficient number of items per factors for several factors, second-order factoring was carried out, and one overall factor (i.e., “stress”) was found to best fit the data, which accounts for 38% of the total variance. These results warrant further replication and other considerations (e.g., possible addition of new items).Regression was performed between the parent stress total score as a dependent variable and sociodemographic, child clinical, and parent clinical variables as potential predictors. The presence of parental depression was found to be the strongest predictor of parent stress. Parental hypomania was found to negatively predict parental stress. Overall, impairment, having a child with a bipolar, disruptive behavior, or depressive disorder diagnosis, and being Caucasian, were found to be significant predictors of parent stress. This PSS could be used to identify parents who are experiencing higher stress levels with respect to caring for their children with MI. It is clinically important to identify these parents because not only does the stress affect parents’ quality of life, parent stress also affects the child and child’s outcome. Therefore, it is important to identify parents experiencing higher levels of stress in order to more effectively intervene to help improve the parents’ and children’s daily lives. In addition, clinicians should pay attention to particular characteristics of parents and their children (e.g., parental psychopathology, child bipolar disorder diagnosis), for these parents may be at risk for higher levels of stress. Consequently, these parents should be monitored more closely and provided more support as part of their treatment.
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