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- Title
The relationship between parental overprotection and health-related quality of life in pediatric cancer: the mediating role of perceived child vulnerability.
- Authors
Hullmann, Stephanie E.; Wolfe-Christensen, Cortney; Meyer, William H.; McNall-Knapp, Rene Y.; Mullins, Larry L.
- Abstract
Purpose: The current study sought to examine the relation of parental overprotection and perceived child vulnerability to parent-reported health-related quality of life in parents of children with cancer. Methods: Parents ( N = 89) of children who had been diagnosed with cancer completed measures of parental overprotection, perceived child vulnerability, and parent-proxy report of health-related quality of life. Results: After controlling for theoretically relevant covariates, parental overprotection and perceived child vulnerability were both found to be significantly related to child health-related quality of life. Additional analyses revealed that perceived child vulnerability mediated the relationship between overprotective parenting behaviors and the child's health-related quality of life. Conclusion: The findings highlight the need to assess for these discrete parenting variables in parents of children with cancer and to develop interventions to target parental perceptions of vulnerability.
- Subjects
PARENTAL overprotection; QUALITY of life; CHILD rearing; INTERPERSONAL relations; INTERPERSONAL communication
- Publication
Quality of Life Research, 2010, Vol 19, Issue 9, p1373
- ISSN
0962-9343
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11136-010-9696-3