الضغوط النفسية والاجتماعية والتعليمية والمادية لدى أسر ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة وعلاقتها ببعض المتغيرات بدولة الكويت

Abstract EN

The main aim of present study to search the psychological, social, educational and financial pressures of families with special needs and their relation to some variables in the State of Kuwait.

The study was conducted on (151) items, their ages of (18-55) years with an average age of (37.40) years and a standard deviation (8.57) year.

This study includes the following tools: a) the psychological, social, educational and financial pressures scale, b) General data list.

The consistency and reliability of the scale have been previously measured.

The study shows clearly that percent of psychological pressures of families with special needs (44.79 %), social pressures of families with special needs (37.34 %), educational pressures of families with special needs (34.38 %), and financial pressures of families with special needs (53.22 %).

The study also found that psychological pressures are affected by gender, brotherhood education and experience in special education.

It also revealed that the social pressures are influenced by the education of mother and brotherhood and their orders among brothers and level of disability.

The financial pressures are affected by lots of variables such as brotherhood education, residential area, family income, and experience in special education, order of members among brothers, diagnose and degree of disability and type of school.