النمذجة البنائية للعلاقات السببية بين المساندة الاجتماعية و فاعلية الذات و معنى الحياة لدى أمهات الأطفال ذوي اضطراب قصور الانتباه و فرط الحركة

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at determining the structural modeling of causative relations among social support (the independent variable), self-efficacy (the intermediate variable) and life meaning) the dependent variable) at the mothers of ADHD children through the recognition of the effect of social support on self- efficacy and life- meaning, the effect of self-efficacy on life-Meaning and the effect of Social Support on life- meaning through self- efficiency as an intermediate variable; and revealing the direct effect of social Support (the independent variable) on self-efficacy (the intermediate variable) and life- meaning (the dependent variable) by the differences of mothers' works (working, non-working) and education (educated, non-educated).

The study sample consisted of 200 mothers of ADHD children; 100 working mothers, 50 educated and 50 uneducated mothers whose ages range from (25- 45) years, with an average age of (34.7) and standard deviation (2.6); 100 non- working mothers 59 educated and 50 uneducated mothers whose ages range from (25- 45) years with an average age of (35.2) and a standard deviation (2.3).

The researcher used the Support scale (prepared by the researcher), self-efficacy scale (prepared by the researcher) and the Life-Meaning scale (prepared by the researcher); after making sure of their psychometric validity.

By using structural modeling of AMOS 25 Program, the findings of the study pointed out the existence of a direct and indirect positive effect of the social support on self-efficacy and that the direct effect of social support (the independent variable) on life-meaning (the dependent variable) positive and statistically significant at level 0.01; the existence of a direct and indirect effect of self-efficacy and life meaning positively and statistically significant at level 0.01; the existence of a statistically significant and positive direct effect of social support on life-meaning through self-efficiency and the presence of a statistically significant indirect effect of social support on the dimensions of self-efficacy through the trait of self-efficiency as a latent variable.

All the direct and indirect effects were positive.

The findings also pointed out that there are no statistically significant differences in the causative relations among the study's three variables (social support, self-efficacy and life-meaning) due to the mothers' work; working/non-working and mothers' education; educated/uneducated; and that all the indicators of the good matching of the proposed model came in the acceptable range.