Parental Stress from Caring for Children with Disabilities, and Family Functioning

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  • 障害児を育てる母親のストレスと家族機能
  • ショウガイジ オ ソダテル ハハオヤ ノ ストレス ト カゾク キノウ

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To investigate the relation between family functioning (satisfactory cohesion and family role) and stress in mothers of children with disabilities, the responses on a questionnaire completed by three handred and sixty people from 180 families of children with disabilities were compared with those of 420 people from 210 families of children without disabilities. The results were as follows: (1) On all scales, mothers who had children with disabilities showed higher stress than those who had children without disabilities. Parents who had children without disabilities revealed higher levels of satisfactory cohesion and family role. (2) Distresses in marital relations are reduced by means of attainment of satisfactory family cohesion. (3) In the families of children with disabilities, mothers who reported high stress showed lower levels on the scale measuring satisfactory cohesion. However, fathers in those families showed higher levels on that scale. This suggests that the conflicts of fathers and mothers should be considered.

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