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COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY
Volume 52, Issue 1, Pages 75-80Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.04.008
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Background: Parents of persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often experience burden due to the illness of their daughter or son. In the present study, the possibility that parents' self-stigma moderates the relationship between the parents' insight into a daughter's or son's illness and the parents' sense of burden was investigated. Methods: Levels of insight into a daughter's or son's mental illness, parent self-stigma, and parent burden of 127 parents of persons with an SMI were assessed. Regression analysis was used to test the putative moderating role of parents' self-stigma. Results: Self-stigma was found to mediate rather than moderate the relationship between insight and burden. Accordingly, parent insight into the mental illness of a daughter or son appears to increase parent burden because it increases parent self-stigma. Conclusions: The implications of these findings for practice, theory, and future research are discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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