How Family Coping With Child Cancer Affects Child's Quality of Life?

Children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents will be contacted and invited to participate. Upon agreement, children will be interviewed, both parents will fill out questionnaires and be additionally interviewed. Using a 3-wave longitudinal design, mainly self-reported parental we-appraisals and we-disease-appraisals, couple dyadic coping (DC) and parent-child DC during a course of 12 months will be examined. Additionally, during brief separate interviews, the parents' speech will be coded for we-appraisals and expressed emotion regarding the other partner and the child. Findings will provide information on how family variables affect child QoL over 12 months.