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Peer reviewedPatterson, Joan M.; McCubbin, Hamilton I. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1984
Examined the relationship of gender-role orientation and specific behavioral coping responses of wives (N=82) experiencing a long-term separation from their military spouses. Results showed that an androgynous gender-role orientation was significantly associated with four of the five coping patterns identified as helpful to wives managing a…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavior Patterns, Coping, Military Personnel
Peer reviewedMcCubbin, Hamilton I.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1983
Studied coping patterns in families (N=100) of children with cystic fibrosis. Three coping patterns emerged: (1) maintaining family integration and optimism; (2) maintaining social support, self-esteem, and psychological stability; and (3) understanding the medical situation. These patterns were validated against measures of the child's health and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Coping, Cystic Fibrosis
Peer reviewedMcCubbin, Hamilton I.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1976
Coping with husband absence, an enigma of family life in the military, stimulated questions as to how wives endure hardships engendered by war-induced separations. The investigators studied the adjustment of 47 families of servicemen missing in action. Findings are explained in terms of psychological and sociological theories of coping. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Armed Forces, Behavior Patterns, Family (Sociological Unit)
Download full textSkinner, Denise A.; McCubbin, Hamilton I. – 1982
The Dual Employed Coping Scales (DECS) were developed to measure coping behaviors and patterns of dual-employed families. The original DECS (58 self-report items) was administered to a sample of 60 individuals in dual-employed families. In another study, in which 69 dual-employed couples completed the DECS and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents
McCubbin, Hamilton I.; Patterson, Joan M. – 1981
Recent developments in family stress and coping research and a review of data and observations of families in a war-induced crisis situation led to an investigation of the relationship between a stressor and family outcomes. The study, based on the Double ABCX Model in which A (the stressor event) interacts with B (the family's crisis-meeting…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Coping
McCubbin, Hamilton I.; And Others – 1978
Family stress theory as a framework for family policy and family impact analysis is compatible with, and a logical development within, a broader ecological context of immediate and wider social environments. The central assumption of the family stress framework is that families have the capacity to organize a variety of supports--economic, social,…
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Behavior Patterns, Family Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit)
