Parenting Self-Efficacy, Hardiness and Psychological Well-Being of Parents of Children with ASD

Abstract

The aim of the study was to find the correlations between parenting self-efficacy, hardiness and psychological well-being in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research subjects were 125 participants, with 92 females (M=32, SD=6.2) and 33 males (M=36, SD=7), obtained using a purposive sampling technique from a population with the following criteria: parents of children with ASD who came from Yamet community in Central Java. Data was collected using the following scales: parenting self-efficacy (α=0.81), hardiness (α=0.84) and psychological well-being (α=0.91). The data was processed to test the hypothesis using multiple regression analysis techniques. The results are F-value: 41.22 > F table, and a significance level of 0.00 <0.05, so it can be determined that there is a significant association between parenting self-efficacy and hardiness in relation to the psychological well-being of parents with ASD children. The research shows no significant differences between the participant groups based on the analysis results using a different test (t-test) on participant demographic data. These results of the study can be used to formulate further research regarding interventions for parents of children with ASD based on the theory of parenting self-efficacy and hardiness because these approaches had effectively increased psychological well-being.