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Children's Cognitions Pertaining to
Developmental Issues and Adjustment at Summer
Camp
Chesner, Stuart Perry
Thesis. Case Western Reserve University
1987
Purpose:
Examine children's cognitions pertaining
to parental psychological control, the child's
own sense of ability and control, and peer
status as related to residential camp adjustment.
Sample:
85 children (41 male, 44 female), ages 8-11
and 28 adolescents (12 male, 16 female),
ages 14-16, attending a 4-week residential
summer camp. Subjects were all white, Jewish-Americans.
Methods/Instruments:
Pre-, post-test. Children's Depression
Inventory (CDI), Coping Inventory,
Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory
Psychological Control Scale Short Form
(CRPBISF), Perceived Competence Scale
for Children, Children's Nowicki-Strickland
Internal External LOC Scale (CNS-IE),
Perceptions of Peer Status Scale
(POPS).
Results:
- Children who perceived parents as psychologically
controlling were less adaptive and more
depressed.
- Children who perceived themselves as
less socially competent and with less
internal control were less adaptive and
more depressed.
- Children who perceived less peer acceptance
were less adaptive and more depressed.
- Children's perceptions of physical competence
and general ability were associated with
counselor post-test ratings of adaptive
behavior. Not related to counselor adaptive
behavior pre-test ratings.
- No significant association between children's
perceptions of parental control and perceptions
of his/her social and physical competence.
- Weak negative relationship between children's
self reported depression and counselor
adaptive behavior evaluations.
- High negative relation of adolescent
perceptions of self competence, locus
of control and peer acceptance to depression
and adaptive behavior.
- Adolescent's perceptions of cognitive
competence not related to counselor evaluations
of adjustment.
- Post-test adolescent perceptions of
maternal psychological control significantly
related to depression. No significant
relation detected between post-test perceptions
of paternal psychological control and
depression.
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