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What Influences Parenting Stress? Examining Parenting Stress and Self-Efficacy Across Groups of Children With Autism
Merve Dilbaz-Gürsoy1, Ayşın Noyan-Erbaş1, Halime Tuna Çak Esen2
1Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine whether there are differences in parenting stress levels and self-efficacy among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), at risk of developmental language disorder (rDLD), and with typically developing language (TDL). The study also investigated the children's language abilities and/or behavioral problems as potential predictors of parents' levels of stress and self-efficacy.
Method:
The study assessed children's language skills and behavioral problems as well as parental stress and self-efficacy in a sample of 2- to 4-year-old children with ASD (n = 35), rDLD (n = 35), and with TDL (n = 25).
Results:
The findings of the study revealed that parents of children with ASD experienced the highest level of parenting stress related to child characteristics and the lowest level of self-efficacy, whereas parents of children rDLD had higher parenting stress compared to parents of children with TDL. Furthermore, although behavioral problems were shown to be a predictor that explains parenting stress in all groups, expressive language was identified as a predictor only in the rDLD group. While parental self-efficacy was also found to be predicted by expressive language in the TDL group, it was discovered that self-efficacy affected parenting stress in parents of children with ASD and rDLD.
Conclusions:
These findings demonstrated that parental stress was a complex phenomenon impacted by several factors. This study may suggest the importance of interventions that aim to decrease parental stress and enhance self-efficacy, going beyond the children's language skills and behavioral problems.
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