Table 1.
Examples of studies of children’s coping with diabetes, chronic pain, and cancer.
| Coping with Diabetes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study | Sample | Primary Control/Active/Approach Coping | Secondary Control/Accommodative Coping | Disengagement/Passive/Avoidance Coping | |
| Band & Weisz (1990) | Type 1 Diabetes | Better adjustment | Better adjustment | ---- | |
| Edgar & Skinner (2003) | Type 1 Diabetes | ---- | Fewer depressive symptoms, greater well-being | ---- | |
| Graue et al. (2004) | Type 1 Diabetes | Poorer quality of life | ---- | Poorer metabolic control | |
| Jaser & White (2011) (RSQ) | Type 1 Diabetes | Better metabolic control, better QoL | Better metabolic control, better QoL | Lower social competence, poorer metabolic control | |
| Coping with Chronic Pain | |||||
| Study | Sample | Primary Control/Active/Approach Coping | Secondary Control/Accommodative Coping | Disengagement/Passive/Avoidance Coping | |
| Compas et al. (2006) (RSQ) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | Not related | Fewer symptoms of anxiety/depression, somatic complaints | More symptoms of anxiety/depression, somatic complaints | |
| Dufton et al. (2011) (RSQ) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | Not related | Fewer somatic complaints, internalizing problems | Not related | |
| Hocking et al. (2011) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | Not related | Fewer symptoms of anxiety | Not related | |
| Kaczynski et al. (2001) (PRI) | Chronic Pain | Not related | Not related | Greater functional disability | |
| Shirkey, Smith, & Walker (2011) (PRI) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | Not related | Not related | More somatic complaints, functional disability, and depressive symptoms | |
| Simons, Claar, & Logan (2008) (PRI) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | More somatic symptoms | More somatic symptoms and diability | More somatic symptoms and disability | |
| Thomsen et al. (2002) (RSQ) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | Lower anxiety, depression, and somatic symptoms; higher pain | Lower anxiety, depression, somatic symptoms, and pain | Higher levels of pain | |
| Walker et al. (1997) (PRI) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | More disability | Lower pain | More pain, somatic symptoms, depressive symptoms, and disability | |
| Walker et al. (2005) (PRI) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | Not related | Not related | More somatic symptoms, functional disability, depressive symptoms | |
| Walker et al. (2007) (PRI) | Recurrent Abdominal Pain | Not related | Not related | More somatic symptoms, functional disability, depressive symptoms | |
| Coping with Cancer | |||||
| Study | Sample | Primary Control/Active/Approach Coping | Secondary Control/Accommodative Coping | Disengagement/Passive/Avoidance Coping | |
| Band & Weisz (1990) | Cancer | Better adjustment | Better adjustment | ||
| Campbell et al. (2009) (RSQ) | Cancer | Lower internalizing and externalizing | Lower internalizing and externalizing | Not related | |
| Frank, Blount, & Brown (1997) | Cancer | Not related | Not related | Greater symptoms of anxiety and depression | |
| Miller et al. (2010) (RSQ) | Cancer | Lower anxiety and depressive symptoms | Lower anxiety and depressive symptoms | Not related | |