How mothers manage the stressor of an adult son's incarceration: The role of coping resources

More than one fifth of U.S. older adults have endured the stressor of a child's incarceration. We use longitudinal in-depth interviews with 69 mothers of incarcerated adult sons to examine mothers' coping resources during and after their son's incarceration. First, mothers report copi...

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Published in:	SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
Main Authors:	Kristin Turney, Rachel Bauman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2025-12-01
Subjects:	Coping Criminal legal system Incarceration Stress process perspective
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321525000484