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Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Background: Increased parental stress is strongly related to the severity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptomatology. Parents’ coping strategies and social support issues add to the complexity of this relationship. Aim: The present study investigated the relationship between self-regulation sk...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8788508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35076548 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10010004 |
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author | Efstratopoulou, Maria Sofologi, Maria Giannoglou, Sofia Bonti, Eleni |
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description | Background: Increased parental stress is strongly related to the severity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptomatology. Parents’ coping strategies and social support issues add to the complexity of this relationship. Aim: The present study investigated the relationship between self-regulation skills and parenting stress in parents of nonverbal children with ASD. Methods and procedure: The Parenting Stress Index–Short Form (PSI-SF) was administered to 75 families, and self-regulation scores on a Motor Behavior Checklist for children (MBC) were recorded by students’ class teachers (level of functioning-behavioral problems). In addition, interviews were conducted with a focus group of six parents (four mothers and two fathers) to explore the underline factors of parental stressin-depth. Results: Correlation analyses revealed that parenting stress was positively correlated with elevated scores on MBC children’s self-regulation subscale. On the other hand, parenting stress was negatively correlated with the level of social functional support reported. Qualitative data were analyzed using transcripts, revealing additional stressors for families and parents, and resulting in recommendations to overcome these factors. Conclusions and implications: Aiming at developing strategies to improve self-regulation skills in nonverbal children with ASD may be particularly important in reducing parental stress for families having nonverbal children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Parents’ stressors and suggestions during interviews are also discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-87885082022-01-26 Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Efstratopoulou, Maria Sofologi, Maria Giannoglou, Sofia Bonti, Eleni J Intell Article Background: Increased parental stress is strongly related to the severity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptomatology. Parents’ coping strategies and social support issues add to the complexity of this relationship. Aim: The present study investigated the relationship between self-regulation skills and parenting stress in parents of nonverbal children with ASD. Methods and procedure: The Parenting Stress Index–Short Form (PSI-SF) was administered to 75 families, and self-regulation scores on a Motor Behavior Checklist for children (MBC) were recorded by students’ class teachers (level of functioning-behavioral problems). In addition, interviews were conducted with a focus group of six parents (four mothers and two fathers) to explore the underline factors of parental stressin-depth. Results: Correlation analyses revealed that parenting stress was positively correlated with elevated scores on MBC children’s self-regulation subscale. On the other hand, parenting stress was negatively correlated with the level of social functional support reported. Qualitative data were analyzed using transcripts, revealing additional stressors for families and parents, and resulting in recommendations to overcome these factors. Conclusions and implications: Aiming at developing strategies to improve self-regulation skills in nonverbal children with ASD may be particularly important in reducing parental stress for families having nonverbal children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Parents’ stressors and suggestions during interviews are also discussed. MDPI 2022-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8788508/ /pubmed/35076548 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10010004 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Efstratopoulou, Maria Sofologi, Maria Giannoglou, Sofia Bonti, Eleni Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) |
title | Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) |
title_full | Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) |
title_fullStr | Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) |
title_full_unstemmed | Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) |
title_short | Parental Stress and Children’s Self-Regulation Problems in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) |
title_sort | parental stress and children’s self-regulation problems in families with children with autism spectrum disorder (asd) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8788508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35076548 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10010004 |
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