Mothers' Adaptation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: An Examination of the Effects of Meaning Making, Control and Self-Enhancement on Depression
With over 400,000 infants being hospitalized in the NICU annually, it is important to understand adjustment in their mothers. Taylor’s cognitive theory of adaptation asserts that three factors, meaning making, control, and self-enhancement, influence positive adjustment in a crisis situation such as...
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VCU Scholars Compass
2010
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| Online Access: | http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2295 http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3294&context=etd |