Reference : Contributors to well-being and stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder |
Scientific journals : Article | |||
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Treatment & clinical psychology | |||
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/29878 | |||
Contributors to well-being and stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder | |
English | |
Pinto Costa, Andreia ![]() | |
Steffgen, Georges ![]() | |
Ferring, Dieter ![]() | |
Feb-2017 | |
Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders | |
Elsevier | |
Yes | |
International | |
1750-9467 | |
[en] Autism spectrum disorder ; Well-being ; Stress ; Perceptual constructs ; Reappraisal | |
[en] Background: Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) present more well-being and stress problems than parents of typically developing (TD) children. However not all parents present these problems. These problems can be due to a dynamic interaction between environmental antecedents, person antecedents, and mediating processes. Understanding how these factors separately contribute to explain parents’ well-being and stress can have implications for intervention programs. The aim of this study was to explain parents’ subjective well-being and physiological stress by considering whether they had a child with ASD or not and their child’s negativity (environmental antecedents), their perception of their child’s problems (person antecedents), and their use of reappraisal (mediating processes).
Method: Thirty-seven parents of children with ASD and 41 parents of TD children reported their subjective well-being and their physiological stress was assessed. Additionally, children’s negativity was observed, parents rated their perception of their child’s problems (autistic traits, emotion regulation ability, and lability/negativity), and parents reported their use of reappraisal. Results: Compared to parents of TD children, parents of children with ASD reported having lower subjective well-being and had increased physiological stress. Parents’ perceptions of children’s lability/negativity and parents’ use of reappraisal were better predictors of parents’ subjective well-being than ASD and parents’ perceptions of children’s lability/negativity contributed to parents’ physiological stress as much as ASD. Conclusions: Prevention and intervention programs targeting parental well-being and stress will benefit from working with parents at the level of perceptual constructs and reappraisal ability. | |
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/29878 | |
10.1016/j.rasd.2017.01.007 | |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2017.01.007 |
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