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Title	Mothers: Their Stress and Coping Strategies in Response to Non-Traditional Behavior of Their Children, 1982-1983

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LMSKXI

Creator	Smith, Margaret T.

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	These data were collected in 1982 and 1983 to identify common coping strategies utilized by mothers experiencing stress in relation to their children's actions. In-depth personal interviews were conducted with 32 mothers who defined their children's behavior in the following areas as stressful: substance abuse, divorce, cult or commune membership, incarceration, homosexuality, interracial marriage, suicide, unwed motherhood, and abortion. In these interviews, the participants described the actions of their children which generated the stress and their own responses to this behavior. Participants were asked to relate what coping strategies they developed and what resources they used to overcome the stress. Demographic data including employment, family, marriage, education, and class information were obtained for each mother. The Loevinger Sentence Completion Test was administered to each mother to assess ego development. The Murray Research Archive has acquired typed transcripts of the interviews, completed Loevinger Sentence Completion Tests, and biographical data sheets for all study participants

Subject	Social Sciences Abortion Parental stress

Type	field study

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