Acute and Chronic Stressors, Social Resources, and Functioning Among Adolescents With Juvenile Rheumatic Disease

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Abstract
This study examined the relations of acute and chronic life stressors and stable social resources to disease-related and psychosocial functioning among 94 adolescents with a chronic physical illness—juvenile rheumatic disease. It also examined whether parental resources moderate the relation of acute and chronic stressors to adolescents' functioning. Life stressors and social resources were unrelated to disease outcomes. According to both self-reports and mothers' reports, however, youth who experienced more acute negative events and chronic life stressors and a lack of stable social resources showed worse psychosocial functioning. Parental resources moderated the relation of acute and chronic stressors to psychosocial functioning; in this group of youth with a chronic physical illness, parental support was more beneficial when there were fewer additional stressors.