RESULTS— Results of the teenagers'assessments of their quality of life and the personal and family factors are shown in
Table 2. In general, adolescents perceived their quality of life as good, with high satisfaction with life, moderate impact of diabetes on their quality of life, and relatively low worries about diabetes. The majority were not clinically depressed (6 of the 52 had scores over 13 on the CDI). They found diabetes hard to deal with and relatively upsetting, but they felt confident in their abilities to manage diabetes. They used the coping strategies of rebellion (e.g., staying out late, deliberately not obeying rules) and ventilating (e.g., fighting, yelling) to cop