# MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENTS' STRESS AND COPING

> **NIH NIH K04** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 1994 · $67,500

## Abstract

The candidate's immediate career goal is to develop a position so that in
the next 3-5 years he can have a significant impact on the study of
adaption to handicapping conditions in children and their families,
especially as it pertains to mental retardation and physical disabilities.
The essential long-term career goal is to direct international
multidisciplinary teams in comprehensive longitudinal investigations of
high risk populations of children, including those with handicapping
conditions, to identify factors and processes controlling adaptation, based
on well-developed theories combining individual difference and
epidemiological as well as behavioral and biological perspectives and using
state-of-the-art statistical techniques.  An RCDA award will release
significant time now devoted to clinical, training, and administrative
responsibilities; facilitate accelerated productivity and improved quality
of research; and allow enhancement and acquisition of knowledge,
particularly in the crucial areas of epidemiology and advanced multivariate
statistics.  The applicant institution is an excellent environment in which
to accomplish these goals with a progressive health sciences center; unique
programs in epidemiology, biostatistics, and medical psychology; and the
recent establishment of a mental retardation research center.

The specific aims of the proposed research are to (a) evaluate change in
adjustment and prevalence and incidence of maladjustment over 3 years in
volunteer samples of 14 and 17 year olds with mild mental retardation; (b)
evaluate and compare the contribution to their variation in adjustment and
development of maladjustment from disability, intrapersonal, social-
ecological, and psychosocial stress and coping factors; and (c) to evaluate
the utility of an integrative comprehensive disability-stress-coping
conceptual model in explaining adjustment and development of maladjustment
in this population.  A prospective longitudinal multivariate design will be
used in studying two age groups (14 and 17) of up to 280 adolescents with
mild MR, who will be followed over three yearly assessments.  Adjustment
will be measured over several domains (behavioral, social, and psychiatric
symptomology) and maladjustment will be defined statistically on this
basis.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2194370
- **Project number:** 5K04HD000867-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **SAM.gov UEI:** YND4PLMC9AN7
- **Principal Investigator:** JAN L WALLANDER
- **Activity code:** K04 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1994
- **Award amount:** $67,500
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1991-04-01 → 1996-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2194370

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2194370, MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENTS' STRESS AND COPING (5K04HD000867-04). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2194370. Licensed CC0.

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