Intelligence and Personality Variables of Parents of Autistic Children

Dor-Shav, Netta Kohn; Horowitz, Zelda

doi:10.1080/00221325.1984.10532449

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“…Given that the neuroticism is a risk factor for a variety of anxiety and depressive disorders, mothers of children with ID are expected to be more socially withdrawn and to experience anger, guilty and emotional distress more than those with typically developing children. This result was consistent with that of Dor‐Shav & Horowitz (1984). Ali et al.…”

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Personality Dimensions, Religious Tendencies and Coping Strategies as Predictors of General Health in Iranian Mothers of Children With Intellectual Disability: A Comparison With Mothers of Typically Developing Children

Mirsaleh

Rezai

Khabaz

et al. 2011

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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Background Challenges related to rearing children with intellectual disability (ID) may cause mothers of these children to have mental health status problems. Method A total of 124 mothers who had a child with ID and 124 mothers of typically developing children were selected using random sampling. Data were collected using General health questionnaire, NEO five-factor inventory, islamic religiosity scale and WOCQ questionnaires.Results Mothers of children with ID had lower general health than mothers of typically developing children. Neuroticism predicted the general health of the two groups of mothers. Among religious tendencies, religiosity and religious disorganization predicted the general health of mothers of children with ID and of mothers of typically developing children, respectively. Coping strategies did not predict general health in any group of mothers. Conclusions Compared to personality dimensions and coping strategies, religiosity seems to be a good predictor of general health of mothers with children with ID in Iran.

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Personality Dimensions, Religious Tendencies and Coping Strategies as Predictors of General Health in Iranian Mothers of Children With Intellectual Disability: A Comparison With Mothers of Typically Developing Children

Mirsaleh

Rezai

Khabaz

et al. 2011

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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“…Two research groups (Dor-Shav & Horowitz, 1984 ;Freeman et al, 1989) reported normal intelligence in the parents of autistic children (AU) but did not test a comparison group. Three controlled studies have been published recently.…”

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Predictors of Cognitive Test Patterns in Autism Families

Folstein

Santangelo

Gilman

et al. 1999

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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In a case-control study of cognitive performance, tests of intelligence, reading, spelling, and pragmatic language were administered to the parents and siblings of 90 community-ascertained probands with autism (AU group) and to the parents and siblings of 40 similarly ascertained probands with trisomy 21 Down syndrome (DS group). The two samples were comparable for age and parents' education; both groups were well-educated and had above-average intelligence. AU parents scored slightly but significantly lower on the WAIS-R Full Scale and Performance IQ, on two subtests (Picture Arrangement and Picture Completion), and on the Word Attack Test (reading nonsense words) from the Woodcock-Johnson battery. There were no differences between AU and DS siblings. As in earlier studies, AU parents, more often than DS parents, reported a history of early language-related cognitive difficulties; we were not able to replicate this in siblings. AU parents who reported such difficulties scored significantly lower on Verbal IQ, spelling, and the nonsense reading test. AU parents without a history of early language-related cognitive difficulties often had a Verbal IQ that exceeded Performance IQ by more than one standard deviation. AU siblings with early language-related difficulties had similar findings: lower Verbal IQ, poorer spelling, and poorer reading scores, compared to AU siblings without such a history. Parents with a positive history also scored worse on a measure of pragmatic language,the Pragmatic Rating Scale, but not on measures of social-related components of the broader autism phenotype. We propose that cognitive differences in a subset of autism family members are manifestations of the language-related component of the broader autism phenotype, and separate from the social-related component. This is consistent with the hypothesis that there are several genes that may interact to cause autism which segregate independently and have distinguishable manifestations in family members. The hypothesis would be further supported by finding different patterns of genetic loci linked to autism in families where one or both parents has language difficulties.

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“…Studies showed that the parents of an autistic child experienced overanxiety due to social relatedness, delay or absence of speech development, stereotypic movements, hyperactivity, and lack of eye contact (8)(9)(10). The mothers of autistic children were reported to be more introverted and neurotic than the normal control group (11) and the parents of children with autism and Down's syndrome were reported to be overanxious, oversensitive, stern in manner, and sensitive to be frustrated with criticism (12).…”

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Comparison of Psychopathology in the Mothers of Autistic and Mentally Retarded Children

et al. 2002

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The aim of this study was to evaluate anxiety, depression, alexithymia, and general psychological symptoms in the mothers of autistic children in comparison with those in the mothers of mentally retarded children. Forty mothers of autistic children and 38 mothers of mentally retarded children were included in the study. After a clinical interview, psychometric tests were performed for depression, anxiety, alexithymia, and Symptom Distress Check List (SCL-90) for general psychological symptoms. Non-depression rates was 27.5% in the mothers of autistic children whereas the rate was 55.3% in the mothers of mentally retarded children. There was no difference regarding anxiety and alexithymia between the two groups. The psychopathology in the mothers of autistic children was more frequent than in those of mentally retarded children in all sub-scales of SCL-90 (somatization obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, anger-hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid thought, psychotism, and extra scale). The mothers of autistic children experienced more psychological distress than those of mentally retarded children. Our findings indicates that the assessment of autistic and mentally retarded children should include psychological assessment of their mothers.

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Intelligence and Personality Variables of Parents of Autistic Children

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

Personality Dimensions, Religious Tendencies and Coping Strategies as Predictors of General Health in Iranian Mothers of Children With Intellectual Disability: A Comparison With Mothers of Typically Developing Children

Personality Dimensions, Religious Tendencies and Coping Strategies as Predictors of General Health in Iranian Mothers of Children With Intellectual Disability: A Comparison With Mothers of Typically Developing Children

Predictors of Cognitive Test Patterns in Autism Families

Comparison of Psychopathology in the Mothers of Autistic and Mentally Retarded Children

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