مستويات الإجهاد الوالدي و استراتيجيات التكيف لدى أمهات الأطفال و المراهقين من ذوي الإعاقة في ضوء بعض المتغيرات الديموجرافية : دراسة مقارنة

Abstract EN

The current research aims to determine the stress levels of mothers of people with mental disabilities, people with autism spectrum disorder, and those with cerebral palsy with mental disability, in the stages of childhood and adolescence, identify the different coping strategies used to confront parental stress In view of some demographic.

The study belongs to comparative descriptive type of studies and applies the Parental Stress Scale (Perry & Jones, 1995), Brief-COPE Inventory (Carver, 1997), and included (150) mothers of children and adolescents with disabilities.

The study reached several conclusions; the most important of them was presence of statistically significant correlation between parental stress levels and coping strategies of mothers, Presence of statistically significant differences between the averages of parental stress scores for mothers according to the type of disability, presence of statistically significant differences between the averages the degrees of coping strategies of mothers according to the type of disability, presence of statistically significant differences between the mean degrees of parental stress and use of coping strategies among mothers according to the age of the son, presence of statistically significant differences between the mean degrees of parental stress and use of coping strategies among mothers according to the education level of mothers, It is possible to predict parental stress among mothers given their scores on coping strategies.

The research recommended the necessity to develop individual psychological support programs provided to families of people with disabilities, and to support the self-efficacy of mothers.