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Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability
To investigate how having a child without a disability is related to maternal mental health and its predictors, we compared mothers of a single child with intellectual disabilities (single-child group, n = 117) and mothers of children with and without intellectual disabilities (multiple-children gro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744629517749129 |
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author | Kimura, Miyako Yamazaki, Yoshihiko |
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description | To investigate how having a child without a disability is related to maternal mental health and its predictors, we compared mothers of a single child with intellectual disabilities (single-child group, n = 117) and mothers of children with and without intellectual disabilities (multiple-children group, n = 457), in Japan. Compared to the multiple-children group, the single-child group had lower hope and social capital and poorer mental health; furthermore, 42.5% of them had decided not to have another child, despite desiring one. Hope was the strongest predictor of mental health in both groups but was more positively related to mental health in the multiple-children group. The fear of the possibility of the next child having a disability and receiving inadequate support were the obstacles for mothers who had decided not to have another child. Thus, greater support and more opportunities for obtaining adequate information about the implications of having another child may be needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-65370322019-06-25 Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability Kimura, Miyako Yamazaki, Yoshihiko J Intellect Disabil Articles To investigate how having a child without a disability is related to maternal mental health and its predictors, we compared mothers of a single child with intellectual disabilities (single-child group, n = 117) and mothers of children with and without intellectual disabilities (multiple-children group, n = 457), in Japan. Compared to the multiple-children group, the single-child group had lower hope and social capital and poorer mental health; furthermore, 42.5% of them had decided not to have another child, despite desiring one. Hope was the strongest predictor of mental health in both groups but was more positively related to mental health in the multiple-children group. The fear of the possibility of the next child having a disability and receiving inadequate support were the obstacles for mothers who had decided not to have another child. Thus, greater support and more opportunities for obtaining adequate information about the implications of having another child may be needed. SAGE Publications 2017-12-28 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6537032/ /pubmed/29284333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744629517749129 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Kimura, Miyako Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability |
title | Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability |
title_full | Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability |
title_fullStr | Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability |
title_full_unstemmed | Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability |
title_short | Having another child without intellectual disabilities: Comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability |
title_sort | having another child without intellectual disabilities: comparing mothers of a single child with disability and mothers of multiple children with and without disability |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744629517749129 |
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