Parental Stress among Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

Anpalagan, Shaluni a/p; Yusop, Yusni Mohamad; Zainudin, Zaida Nor; Othman, Wan Norhayati Wan; Kari, Dharatun Nisa Fuad M.; Surat, Shahlan

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v11-i12/11754

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“…Children with special needs are very different from children in general in several dimensions of their human function (Suran, in Mangunsong, 2014). The challenges faced by parents in the care of children with special needs affect parents' lives in many aspects, to name a few: work, physical and mental health, financial, and social and family relationships as well (Anpalagan, et al, 2021). As a result, parents often experience stress, which is a feeling of being overwhelmed or unable to cope with mental or emotional stress, which can appear both in the form of disorders in the body and behavior (Mental Health Foundation, 2021).…”

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“…The form of negative experience experienced can be in the form of loss of resources such as time, energy, self-esteem, control, happiness, or affection when parenting. Research results of Aldosari & Pufpaff (2014), Sownya & Laksmi (2019), Ren, et al (2020, Pocinho &Fernandes (2018), andAnpalagan, et al (2021), shows that parents of children with special needs experience higher parenting stress compared to parents of children in general. The more severe the child's disability, the higher the parental stress level.…”

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Religious Coping: Is It Effective to Reduce Parent's Stress During the Parenting of Special Needs Children?

Herlina¹,

Kosasih²,

Dahlan³

2023

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The study aims at determining the impact of religious coping on the stress endured by parents of children with special needs. It was conducted using a quantitative approach. The subjects of the study were 122 parents of special needs children, selected using accidental sampling technique. For this study, the Indonesian rendition of Amer et. al's BARCS was used as an instrument to measure the religious coping, while Berry & Jones' Parental Stress Scale was adapted to determine the stress level during the parenting of the children. The data were processed using Variance Analysis and Pearson Correlation statistical technique. The result shows that: 1) the use of religious coping in parenting the children with special needs is on a moderate level, 2) the highest level of stress was noticed on parents of children with a learning disability, in comparison with other disabilities or special needs, 3) the religious coping affected contrastingly on the parents' stress; the higher the use of the coping, the lower the stress level endured by the parents while handling their special needs children, and vice versa.

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Religious Coping: Is It Effective to Reduce Parent's Stress During the Parenting of Special Needs Children?

Herlina¹,

Kosasih²,

Dahlan³

2023

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Insights into the emotional grounds of diverse parenting experiences: risk and protective factors of psychological distress in mothers of children with autism, Down syndrome, and typical development

Maftei,

Merlici,

Dulcianu

2024

International Journal of Developmental Disabilities

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A Study on Stress Level, Happiness, Challenges, and Emotional Bonds of Parents having Children with Disabilities Availing Services at NIEPMD, Chennai

Kalpurniya,

Ramachandran,

Chandramohan

2023

Integr. J. Res. Arts Humanities

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Being a parent is normally a joyous occasion and creating emotional bond between parents and their children is special, but in certain situations, lives of parents' are plagued with challenges and are concerned about their ability to maintain their child's physical, emotional, or economic well-being. It is very important to understand as how it is like to be a parent, because this helps to enhance the wellbeing of both parents and their children, especially if the child born is having disabilities. The study here consisting of equal distribution of male and female (N =100, Male = 50 and female = 50) coming to NIEPMD for rehabilitation services were taken as samples to find out stress level of parents of children having disabilities based on gender, based on age of the parent, based on the educational qualification of the parent, based the diagnosis of the children having disabilities. The Parental Stress Scale (PSS) questionnaire developed by Berry & Jones (1995) is a standardized scale and was used to assess parental stress. The researchers obtained due permission to use the scale from the author. The findings of the study revealed that 63% of the parents are having high level of stress in particular female parent are experiencing high level of stress (33%). Findings based on age shows that 35% of parents aged between 31-40 are having high level of stress, based on educational qualification of the parent 27% of the parents who completed under graduation are having high level of stress and based on the diagnosis of the children 25% of the parents having children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder are having high level of stress. The result implicated that parents having children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are having high level of stress. Understanding these fundamental results and trends allows practitioners and researchers to develop customized interventions and support methods to promote positive parenting experiences and improve the well-being of parents and children.

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Parental Stress among Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

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Religious Coping: Is It Effective to Reduce Parent's Stress During the Parenting of Special Needs Children?

Religious Coping: Is It Effective to Reduce Parent's Stress During the Parenting of Special Needs Children?

Insights into the emotional grounds of diverse parenting experiences: risk and protective factors of psychological distress in mothers of children with autism, Down syndrome, and typical development

A Study on Stress Level, Happiness, Challenges, and Emotional Bonds of Parents having Children with Disabilities Availing Services at NIEPMD, Chennai

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