Health Psychology Long-Term Effects on Mental Health and Major Illness
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Description
This book examines long-term, negative consequences of various behaviours characteristic of negative parenting styles, specifically verbal maltreatment (insulting children), physical maltreatment (beating or hitting children), and lack of encouragement. Findings indicate that parents’ discouraging their children from expressing thoughts and feelings, and parents’ being verbally and physically harsh towards their children, are both powerful risk factors for a broad array of long-term health outcomes in both clinical and non-clinical samples. Various aspects of the individuals’ childhood relationships with their parents, as measured using the new APSQ, are significantly correlated with the following health- and wellness-related variables in adulthood: quality of life as assessed on the Global Quality of Life Scale (GQLS), health complaints as assessed using the Minor Health Complaints Questionnaire (MHCQ),
Author: Alkhalaf, Ahmed
Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 3659165530
Language: English
Pages: 256
Additional information
Weight | 0.84 lbs |
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Dimensions | 9 × 6 × 0.58 in |
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