Author(s): Laura Nussbaum,Alexandru Ogodescu,Lavinia Hogea,Liliana Nussbaum,Irina Zetu / Language(s): English
Issue: 56/2016
We approach an integrated research-action model of the interactions between the
psychosis of the parent, parenting, family relations, the child’s development, risk and
resilience factors. The research objectives are: identifying the resilience factors, the
research of the interaction between the risk and resilience mechanisms, predicting or not
the development of psychopathology in children of psychotic parents, the dynamic evaluation
of the resilience. The longitudinal study was conducted in the period 2003-2013 on
a group of 75 children with a schizophrenic parent and 70 children with a parent with
bipolar disorder. We applied the scales: CBCL, Vth Axis ICD 10, PANSS and CD-RISC
(Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale). Through PANSS for the psychotic parents, we correlated
the scores for specific items with those obtained by the children through CD-RISC.
Through MANOVA and the Pearson test we correlated the dependent variables with the
predictive influence factors. The high PANSS scores for specific items were correlated
negatively with the resilience scores of the children with psychotic parents. The maximum
frequency of positive codifications on the Vth Axis, found for: rejection behavior from one
parent (76, 4%), family disharmony (73, 52%), distorted family communication (70, 58%),
was significantly correlated (p<0.001) with low scores of the child’s resilience for personal
competency, negative effects tolerance, safe interpersonal relations, high performance.
The social, family support and social connectedness proved to be relevant variables.
Resilience can be modified and improved through targeted interventions, so that the
understanding of the resilience process and of the concurrent factors is needed.
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