Personal Growth in Adults With Chronically Ill Child

SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Alena, Marek BLATNÝ, Martin JELÍNEK, Tomáš KEPÁK, Irena VLČKOVÁ and Veronika SOBOTKOVÁ. Personal Growth in Adults With Chronically Ill Child. In Second World Congress on Positive Psychology. 2011.

Basic information

• Original name: Personal Growth in Adults With Chronically Ill Child
• Authors: SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Alena, Marek BLATNÝ, Martin JELÍNEK, Tomáš KEPÁK, Irena VLČKOVÁ and Veronika SOBOTKOVÁ.
• Edition: Second World Congress on Positive Psychology, 2011.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: stress-related growth; childhood cancer; positive psychology
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The study deals with the stress-related personal growth in adults whose children completed oncological treatment. 120 respondents entered the study within 2006-2009 and gave their description of positive and negative influence of child's illness on particular life domains. Positive changes at least in one domain of stress-related growth stated 107 respondents (91%). Most respondents (30%) experienced growth in 3 domains: interpersonal relations (29%), changes in value system (25%) and self perception and self-actualization (20%). Generally, more positive than negative aspects were given by 74% of respondents. Statistically significant relations with the predominance of given positive aspects over negative ones were determined with respect to respondents' age, time lapsed from the completion of child's treatment and level of seriousness of late effects of the treatment.