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Subject: Human Development and Family Studies × End date: 2013 × Start date: 2013 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Parenting stress of normal and developmentally challenged children: correlates and intervention
    (UAS Dharwad, 2013) Narmada Hidangmayum; Pushpa B. Khadi
    Parenting stress of normal and developmentally challenged children with its correlates and intervention” was studied on a sample of 260 normal children, 71 mentally challenged and 36 hearing impaired. The total sample comprised of 314 fathers and 341 mothers. The results revealed that a higher proportion of parents of mentally challenged children had clinically significant level of parenting stress where in majority of the parents both fathers (64.10%) and mothers (68.90%) fell in clinically significant level. Similarly, among hearing impaired group also. Among normal group, 14.20 per cent of fathers and 12.30 per cent of mothers fell in this level. As the parenting stress was highest in mentally challenged group the correlating factors viz. parental, familial and community factors were studied on a sample of 65 parents employing standardised tools. The results revealed that extroversion, conscientiousness and openness to experience were correlated with parenting stress. However, mental health, self efficacy and individual resilience were not significantly correlated. Parenting stress was correlated with familial factors like family resilience but not with marital satisfaction and family relationship. Social support was found to be negatively and significantly correlated with parenting stress. Parents who had low social support had highest score and lowest mean score among parents who had high level of social support. Parents who had high parenting stress were more dissatisfied with their parenting. Also parents of higher parenting stress had children who were in clinical range of problematic behaviour both internalizing and externalizing behaviour. On the basis of the results of the correlates of parenting stress of mentally challenged children an educational package was developed for parents to enhance their knowledge on intellectual disabilities, special education and stress management. The efficacy of the package was tested on 65 parents of mentally challenged children through an interrupted time series experimental research design. The post intervention revealed lower parenting stress in all the three domains viz. parental distress, parent child difficult interaction, difficult child as well as in total parenting stress. The gain in knowledge indices was 81.45 percent with a range of 68.18 to 95.45 per cent. Thus intervention program proved to be effective in enhancing knowledge index and in reducing parenting stress.