rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Adolescent Perceived Events Scale as a predictor of stress-related illness
  name:
    name part: Marcus-Mendoza, Susan Taft.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hughes, Jan
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Hursey, Karl G.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Jones, Diane C.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Rholes, William S.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1990
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 76 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: While the presence of a relationship between stress and illness is generally accepted with adults, this relationship has not been widely studied with children and adolescents. One difficulty in conducting stress-illness research with children and adolescents is the lack of stressor measures validated for this purpose. The Adolescent Perceived Events Scale (APES) (Compas, Davis, Forsythe, & Wagner, 1987) is a measure of stressors empirically developed for use with 18-20 year-olds. This dissertation examines the validity of the APES as a measure of stressors to predict illness over 1 week and 8 week periods. Seventy-two undergraduate students between the ages of 18-20 years completed the questionnaires in return for class credit. Three assessments of each subject were obtained over an 8-week period: One at the beginning of the semester and again 7 and 8 weeks later. In addition, data were collected on depression, social support, coping, and illness, and hypothesized models of the mediating effects of these variables in the relationship between stress and illness were tested. The results suggest that the APES, especially when scored for negative stressors, is useful in predicting illness over short and longer time periods. Further, the hypothesis that social support, coping, and depression mediate the stress-illness relationship is supported in the presence of large numbers of stressors (at the beginning of the semester), but not with lower levels of stress (weeks seven and eight). Coping, social support, and depression emerged as directly predictive of stress in the high stress condition. The implications of this study and future research are discussed.
  note: "Major subject: Psychology."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1990
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Adolescent Perceived Event Scale
  subject:
    topic: Medicine and psychology
  subject:
    topic: Stress in adolescence
  subject:
    topic: Major psychology
  identifier: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1108881
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl
  related item:
    location:
      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1108881
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 901105
    record change date: 20220103134836.0
    record identifier: in00000994972
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng