title: Self-perceptions and personal sources of support among Creole Belizean parents of mentally retarded children.
abstract: A modified version of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty-Statement Test, a projective technique to measure self attitudes, was administered to six Creole Belizean mothers of mentally retarded children in Belize, Central America. Other methods of measurement included participant observation over a 13-month period, focused observations, formal, unstructured interviews, and daily calendars maintained by the parents. A central finding of the entire ethnographic study was that mothers relied almost exclusively on themselves and personal sources of support, like religion, for coping, rather than social support from others.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Killion
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001531:Belize; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D012067:Religion; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support