A Study on the Levels Emotional States of Parents Having Children with Intellectual Disability

Abstract

Parenting a child with intellectual disability brings a lot of change in psychological makeup of the parents, owing due to irreversible condition of the nature of intellectual disability. An attempt is made to understand whether parents of the child having intellectual disability are affected or not, if effected whether mother and father of the child are equally affected or not. The perception of the condition of child is perceived differently by mothers and fathers was taken for the study. Research was directed to understand the eight emotional states (Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Regression, Fatigue, Guilt, Extraversion, Arousal) of parents having child with intellectual disability on mothers and fathers. A Comparative Study was undertaken to unearth the psychological makeup in parenting in terms of their eight emotional states levels that parents of intellectually disabled children have and comparison levels of those emotional states between mothers and fathers. A sample of 80 parents including 40 fathers and 40 mothers was randomly selected from Hyderabad, India. 8SQ scales was administered on these samples, eight emotional States levels was measured in both mother and father of intellectually disabled children. Research Revealed that Parents both fathers and mothers of children with intellectual Disability experience significant level of eight emotional states. Statistical Analysis on the results shows that there is no significant difference in emotional states levels that mothers and fathers are subjected, emotional states persistently existent in both female and male gender, emotional states (Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Regression, Fatigue, Guilt, Extraversion, Arousal) have an association, if one exists other two also exists in parents.