Adolescent life changes and illness: A comparison of three models |
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Authors: | Gerald T Hotaling Saundra G Atwell Arnold S Linsky |
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Institution: | 1. The University of Vermont, USA 2. The University of Maine at Orono, USA 3. The University of New Hampshire, USA
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Abstract: | This article examines how stressful life-events relate to the occurrence of illness in a nonclinical random sample of adolescents and what processes intervene in this relationship. Three alternative models of the life events and illness relationship are compared. Data support a “direct stress and illness model” as opposed to either a “sick role behavior model” or a “mental health model.” Social support from parents appears to mediate the life events-illness relationship. Undesirable and ambiguous life events have more impact on illness than desirable events do. Results are discussed in terms of adolescence as a unique developmental stage. |
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