Comparative Study of Children's Self-Concepts and Parenting Stress Between Families of Children With Epilepsy and Asthma
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Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to conduct a comparative study on families of children with epilepsy and asthma with regard to the variables of children's self-concepts and parenting stress. While past research has indicated higher rates of behavioral problems in children with epilepsy, behavioral problems were associated primarily with children's self-concept. How an individual assesses his or herself impacts significantly upon self conceptualization and the attainment of a stable concept about oneself as an individual is a critical development factor during an individual's cognitive development stage. Nevertheless, specific factors related to such have not previously been well delineated. Forty-eight children, 8 to 13 years of age with epilepsy, and 54 children in the same age range with asthma were investigated for this study. Parents of subjects were also involved in this study. The self-concepts of subject children were assessed using the Harter's Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC). Parenting stress was measured using Abidin's Parenting Stress Index (PSI)/long form. Children's demographic variables and illness severity were also measured as potential risk factors. Results showed significant differences between the two groups in terms of self-concept and parenting stress, with epileptic children returning significantly lower self-concept scores in 3 SPPC subscales. Demographic variables and illness conditions were not found to be effective predictors of parenting stress. Level of parenting stress was revealed to be significantly associated with children's self-concept in the epilepsy group. Results suggest that parents of children with epilepsy will benefit from coping strategies that may help lower parenting stress levels and influence positively upon children's self-concept. In addition to providing regular drug therapy, providing further support is needed.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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