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COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL SUPPORT OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN
TREATED AT CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES
by
Jeffrey A. Hall
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMMUNICATION)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Jeffrey A. Hall
Object Description
| Title | Communication and social support of parents of children treated at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles |
| Author | Hall, Jeffrey Adam |
| Author email | hallj@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-10-04 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-10-24 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Cody, Michael J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Murphy, Sheila Messner, Michael |
| Abstract | This investigation explored the communication and social support networks of mothers and fathers as they coped with the challenges caused by childhood cancer. Data was gathered using a survey instrument at an annual Childrens Hospital Los Angeles survivorship event. Fifty-four parents completed the survey, and 40 of these were mother-father pairs. Results confirmed that competent communication enables emotional and instrumental social support within the relationship. To test the theory of optimal matching, multilevel modeling was used to determine what types of social support were most valuable. Instrumental and emotional support both uniquely predicted the overall quality of social support. The use of network methodology collected from mother-father pairs, allowed the identification of each source of support as either shared or unique. For social support from shared social support sources, mothers and fathers received the same quality and types of support, but from their unique sources of support, mothers received higher quality instrumental support in comparison to fathers.; Two indicators of gender role conflict, emotional expression and career achievement, were explored in relation to fathers' outcomes. Results demonstrated that fathers' career achievement conflict reduced the amount of instrumental and emotional support that mothers perceived, but did not affect their own support or anxiety. The other measure of masculinity, restricted emotional expression, was not related to either mothers' or fathers' outcomes.; Using structural equation modeling, a complete dyadic model of family communication tested the findings controlling for the non-independence of parents' data. This model demonstrated that social support was related to parents' trait anxiety. The quality of received social support from fathers' and mothers' networks reduced fathers' anxiety. When fathers perceived greater social support from their spouses, mothers also reported less anxiety.; The role of ethnicity and acculturation in family function was not related to any of the variables explored in this study, and differences between Latino and white families were not significant.; Limitations and strengths of the present investigation are discussed, and future directions for research and intervention are described. |
| Keyword | social support; masculinity; family communication; social networks; pediatric oncology |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m885 |
| Rights | Hall, Jeffrey Adam |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Hall-20071024 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Hall-20071024.pdf |
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| Full text | COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL SUPPORT OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN TREATED AT CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES by Jeffrey A. Hall A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Jeffrey A. Hall |
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