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Cognitive Study
| Published: September 18, 2020
Coping resources, self-perception, separation anxiety and acculturation among children with military and civilian background
Research Scholar Clinical Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.100/20200803
DOI: 10.25215/0803.100
ABSTRACT
Research on children with Military families has taken a deficit approach and it has been noted that these children as a population susceptible to psychological damage from the hardships of military life, such as recurrent moves and separation from their parents during deployment. There are several issues that on a day to day basis take a heavy toll on an army officer and his family, mentally as well as emotionally (Zaidi, 2017). The purpose of this study was to investigate if there were any differences in coping resources self-perception separation anxiety among military and civilian background children. The data was collected with the help of purposive sampling, among military and civilian background children (N = 192), in the age group from 14 to 17 years. The tools used in this research were, The Self-perception Profile for Adolescents (Harter, 2012); Coping Resources Inventory (Hammer & Martin, 2004); The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (Birmaher et al., 1999). There was found to be a significant difference between military and civilian background children on coping resources (t=1.921 p<0.5) and separation anxiety (t=2.891, p<0.1). The evidence suggests that military background children are higher on coping resources and separation anxiety than civilian background children. Apart from the quantitative analysis a qualitative check has been done which revealed that acculturation was more in military background children as compared to civilian background children.
Keywords
Military Background Children, Civilian Background Children, Coping Resources, Self-Perception, Separation Anxiety, Acculturation
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Naidu P. & Mhaske R.S.
Received: August 01, 2020; Revision Received: September 07, 2020; Accepted: September 18, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.100/20200803
10.25215/0803.100
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 3, July-September, 2020