Document Type : Research Paper
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Associate Professor of psychology, Department of Psychology, Women Research Center, Alzahra University
Abstract
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.
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