Parental Adjustment, Marital Relationship, and Family Function in Families of Children with Autism

Autor/inn/en	Gau, Susan Shur-Fen; Chou, Miao-Churn; Chiang, Huey-Ling; Lee, Ju-Chin; Wong, Ching-Ching; Chou, Wen-Jiun; Wu, Yu-Yu
Titel	Parental Adjustment, Marital Relationship, and Family Function in Families of Children with Autism
Quelle	In: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6 (2012) 1, S.263-270 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-9467
DOI	10.1016/j.rasd.2011.05.007
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Marital Satisfaction; Autism; Psychopathology; Adjustment (to Environment); Foreign Countries; Fathers; Family Relationship; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Comparative Analysis; Questionnaires; Affective Behavior; Stress Variables; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Autismus; Psychopathologie; Ausland; Fragebogen; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung
Abstract	This study aimed to investigate the psychopathology, marital relationship, and family function in parents of children with autistic disorder (autism) as compared to parents of typically developing children. We also compared these measures between the mothers and the fathers. We assessed 151 families with at least one child with autistic disorder and 113 families of typically developing children in Taiwan. Both parents completed the self-administered questionnaires measuring psychopathology, marital dyadic adjustment, and family function. Both parents of children with autism suffered from more psychopathology and less dyadic consensus than parents of typically developing children; mothers of children with autism, perceived less marital satisfaction, affection expression, family adaptability and cohesion than mothers of typically developing children. We also found that mothers of children with autism displayed more psychopathology and marital maladjustment than did the fathers. These findings highlight that parents of children with autism encounter more psychological problems, marital difficulties and family dysfunction, particularly their mothers. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10