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Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Eboigbe, Loretta Isoken (creator); Amso, Dima (thesis advisor); Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Stress (Psychology); social support; Home environment; Cognition in children; Parent and child; Life events
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/6ncn-mb93

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Abstract:: Children’s stressful experiences and parent-child relationships have been a topic of exploration across childhood. Past studies have relied on parents’ reports to assess children’s coping experiences, although research has shown that children are able to endorse stressful life experiences and report their coping skills (Band & Weisz, 1988). The main objective of our study was to investigate how specific aspects of children’s stress perceptions correlated with parents’ perception of children’s adjustment to stressful life experiences. Therefore, we assessed the role of home environmental quality on parent-report of child stress, child stress perception, and child cognition. The present experiment provides evidence that both parent and child- report converge to explain the impact of children’s stressful experiences. Our findings suggest that parents attuned to their children and offering support in stressful circumstances also perceive their children to be less impacted by negative life events. Home distractions, time management, bedtime routines, leaving and homecoming routines, and discipline routines are unique home environmental qualities that affect parents’ report and perception of stressful life events on their children. Children’s perceived stress acts as a moderator between the number of experienced negative life events and working memory difference scores. Future interventions should focus on creating opportunities for caregivers to support their children in a way that aligns with children’s perceptions. Lastly, researchers should incorporate various opportunities for evaluating children’s stress internalization, subjective interpretation, and perceived coping abilities in their studies.
Notes:: Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020; Concentration: psychology

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Eboigbe, Loretta Isoken, "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD REPORT OF STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS" (2020). Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/6ncn-mb93

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Theses and Dissertations for the Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences department.
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD REPORT OF STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS