The Impact of Demographic Characteristics and the Positive Perceptions of Parents on Quality of Life in Families with a Member with Intellectual Disability

The Relation Between Family Quality of Life and the Family‐Centered Approach in Families With Children With an Intellectual Disability

“…However, in that study, the parental employment situation affected satisfaction on FQOL, PA, and EMOWB. At any rate, and also supported by the studies of Giné et al () and Ferrer et al () that identified an effect of the responding parent's employment status on FQOL, it can be summarized that parental occupation plays an important role in (satisfaction regarding) various facets of family life, and apparently especially in those related to emotions and interactions. This aspect might be explained by the role accumulation theory: A job offers parents the opportunity to fulfill another role (i.e., employee) besides the parent role, which can benefit their well‐being (Sieber, ) and probably the whole family's welfare.…”

“…In the extended EP model on the contrary, the impact of the support needs of the child with an ID on EMOWB could not be identified. In several previous studies on families with children with disabilities too, an inverse relation was found between the severity of the disability of the child (Balcells‐Balcells et al, ; Ferrer et al, ; Hu et al, ; Mas et al, ; Wang et al, ) or his or her support needs (Vanderkerken et al, ) on the one hand and FQOL on the other hand. In Vanderkerken et al (), including the opinions of fathers, mothers, and youngsters on FQOL however, this relation only concerned physical and material well‐being.…”

“…Nonetheless, the support and care needs of a child with disabilities often complicate and hinder parents' employment, in particular for mothers (Parish & Cloud, ). A job provides also an income (and associated opportunities, cf., Parish & Cloud, ), a factor that was demonstrated to be related to quality of life in families with children with disabilities (e.g., Ferrer et al, ; Hu et al, ; Park, Turnbull, & Turnbull, ). In the present study however, no association was found between the parental employment situation and physical and material well‐being.…”

“…Research on factors contributing to FQOL in families with children with disabilities is often focused on individual family member factors (e.g., education and employment of the responding parent; Giné et al, ; Mas et al, ) and in particular on factors at the level of the child with the disability (e.g., age, behavior problems, support needs, severity of the disability; Balcells‐Balcells, Giné, Guàrdia‐Olmos, & Summers, ; Davis & Gavidia‐Payne, ; Giné et al, ; Mas et al, ; Wang et al, ; Vanderkerken, Heyvaert, Onghena, & Maes, ). Some studies focused on the relation between FQOL and family characteristics as for example the parental work situation (Vanderkerken et al, ), the family's income and living situation (e.g., Davis & Gavidia‐Payne, ; Ferrer, Vilaseca, & Bersabé, ; Hu, Wang, & Fei, ; Wang et al, ), and religious preference and participation (Poston & Turnbull, ). Concerning the third level of the FQOL unified framework (cf.…”

“…Concerning the third level of the FQOL unified framework (cf. Zuna et al, ), a number of studies involved the relation between support, service, and practice factors on the one hand and (components of) FQOL on the other hand (e.g., Brown, Geider, Primrose, & Joniken, ; Cohen, Holloway, Domínguez‐Pareto, & Kuppermann, ; Dunst, Trivette, Hamby, & Bruder, ; Ferrer et al, ; Friend, Summers, & Turnbull, ; Kyzar, Turnbull, Summers, & Aya Gomez, ; Steel, Poppe, Vandevelde, Van Hove, & Claes, ). More specifically regarding the FCA however, empirical research on its relation with FQOL is scarce.…”