Psychosocial assets of parents of handicapped and nonhandicapped children.
Parents of 34 handicapped children were compared to a control sample of parents of nonhandicapped children on a variety of measures, including marital satisfaction, social support, religiosity, psychological well being, and a measure of resources and stress. Significant differences were found between groups along a number of these dimensions.
D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008393:Marriage; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology