Abstract
The child’s developmental characteristics influence the psycho-social features in the behavior of parents. This aspect is relevant in building effective strategies for psychological and socio-educational assistance to parents for an increased quality of family life. The aim of the present study is to investigate the differences in anxiety, stress, and resilience strategies in the case of parents with children with late psychosocial development and those with children with neurotypical development. The research sample consisted of 620 subjects (380 women, 240 men, divided into two equal categories: parents of children with late development and with neurotypical development). The questionnaire survey (Levenstein’s Perceived Stress Questionnaire for stress and Hobfoll’s Strategic Approach to Coping Scale for resilience strategies) and interview (Hamilton’s Anxiety Rating Scale for anxiety) were used. The anxiety levels did not differ significantly (t = 0.45, p = 0.65), but there were differences in the perceived stress levels (t = −7.10, p = 0.03). As for resilience strategies, significant differences were found for assertive action, social communion, precautionary action, and seeking social support, which were more pronounced strategies that were used by parents of children with late psychosocial development.
Highlights
Published: 14 February 2022This paper is a comparative study with the general objective of recording the differences between parents raising a child with typical psycho-socio-emotional development, who is clinically healthy and the parents of children with late psychological and socio-emotional development, with developmental delays and social adjustment issues
The research objectives of the paper are the analysis of anxiety levels for the parents of children with typical psychosocial development and the parents of children with late psychosocial development, the identification of the perceived stress levels for the two categories, and an analysis of resilience strategies that are adopted by the parents of children with typical psychosocial development compared to the parents raising children with late psychosocial development
To test the third questions of the research, the t-test was used for independent samples to measure the significance of the difference between the resilience strategies that were used by parents of children with late psychosocial development and the strategies that were used by parents of children with typical development SACS (Table 3)
Summary
Published: 14 February 2022This paper is a comparative study with the general objective of recording the differences between parents raising a child with typical psycho-socio-emotional development, who is clinically healthy (both psychologically and physiologically) and the parents of children with late psychological and socio-emotional development, with developmental delays and social adjustment issues. Based on the literature and numerous previous studies that have assessed differences in parenting style, parentchild relationship, level of resilience and depression, and parent-child attitudes, this survey aims to investigate the differences in anxiety, perceived stress, and resilience strategies between the two categories of parents within the Romanian population. This topic, namely parenting style and parent-child relationship, discussed in a general family context, raises many questions nowadays, from the attitude of intrinsic rejection of the parent who has a child with a disability to the daily sacrifice of parents who have children with such conditions. One of the long-term objectives of this research is to emphasize the need for psychosocial intervention on parents that are caring for children
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