الضغوط الوالدية كما يدركها والدو الأطفال المعاقين و العاديين في ضوء بعض من المتغيرات : دراسة مقارنة

Abstract EN

This study aimed to identify the level of parental stress among the parents of children with disabilities compared with that among parents of normal chil-dren in the light of some of variables.

To achieve the objective of the study, a developed version of the parental stress scale was conducted on a sample of (222) parents, of children with or without disabilities.

The results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in parental stress among the parents of children with disabilities and those of normal children.

It also showed no statistically significant differences among the parents of children with disabilities according to parental age, sex and level of education.

As for the type of child disability, the results showed significant differences in pa-rental stress among the parents of children with disabilities according to the type of disability.

Parents of disabled children showed intermediate levels of stress while the parents of the mentally retarded children had shown the highest parental stress followed by the parents of the physically disabled, the parents of visually impaired and parents of hearing-impaired respectively.