Seyyedeh Fatemeh Mousavi; Maryam Parastanpoor; Maryam Asghari
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The aim of this study was to compare marital satisfaction, parental alliance, and parental burnout in fathers and mothers having a child(ren) with and without visual impairment. The method of the study was descriptive and expo facto. The study population consisted of four groups of parents having children ...
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The aim of this study was to compare marital satisfaction, parental alliance, and parental burnout in fathers and mothers having a child(ren) with and without visual impairment. The method of the study was descriptive and expo facto. The study population consisted of four groups of parents having children without and with visual impairment (parents having one child, two children, and more than two children with VI) living in different cities of Iran. Among them, a sample of 506 people (including 297 mothers and 209 fathers) participated voluntarily in the study through convenient sampling. The measurements included the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (Nichols et al., 1983), the Parental Alliance Scale (Abidin, & Brunner, 1995), and the Parental Burnout Assessment (Roskam et al., 2018). The results showed that parents having more than two children with VI had higher scores on parental burnout and lower scores on marital satisfaction and parental alliance compared to the other three groups (p < .001). The results of the MANOVA test showed that the four groups were significantly different in all dimensions of parental burnout (p < .001), also, the fathers obtained higher scores in marital satisfaction (p < .04). The extent of visual impairment of the child(ren) can disrupt the relationship between children and parents with themselves and with each other by negatively affecting marital and parental outcomes.
Seyyedeh Fatemeh Mousavi
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This research was done with the goal of studying the role of positive perception and parental stress in prediction of marital in mothers of children with special needs & normal children. The population of this research was two groups of mothers with normal children and children ...
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This research was done with the goal of studying the role of positive perception and parental stress in prediction of marital in mothers of children with special needs & normal children. The population of this research was two groups of mothers with normal children and children with special needs. So, 161 mothers were sampled by nonprobability & convenient method. Measurement tools included Parental Stress Scale, Positive Perception Scale and Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale. The relationship between variables and their prediction role were analyzed in the structural model by the AMOS.V24 and the differences between the two groups of mothers were analyzed with independent t-test by the SPSS.V24 software. The results showed that there is a significant negative correlation between parental stress and marital satisfaction and there is a significant positive correlation between positive perception and marital satisfaction. Positive perception has good predictive power for marital satisfaction. The results also showed that there were a significant difference between two groups of mothers in positive perception and parental stress. Positive perception to self and one’s abilities can play an effective role in reduction of the stress associated with parenting tasks and increasing marital satisfaction, especially in mothers of children with special needs.