title: Anxiety, psychological well-being and self-esteem in Spanish families with blind children. A change in psychological adjustment?
abstract: In this study, the relation between levels of anxiety, self-esteem and subjective psychological well-being is analyzed in a Spanish sample of 28 fathers and 33 mothers of blind children. The results reveal a positive correlation between subjective psychological well-being and self-esteem, and a negative correlation between anxiety and subjective psychological well-being, and between anxiety and self-esteem. In comparison with the general population, no statistically significant differences were found in anxiety and subjective psychological well-being; however, levels of self-esteem were significantly higher in families with blind children. These results suggest that the process of adaptation described in previous research may be changing, as having a blind child does not necessarily lead to parents' maladjustment.
authors.affiliation: National Organization of Spanish Blind (ONCE), 04001 Almería, Spain. jjsc@once.es
authors.forename: Juan Jesús
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Sola-Carmona
authors.forename: Remedios
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: López-Liria
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Padilla-Góngora
authors.forename: María Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Daza
authors.forename: Manuel Alejandro
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Alcoba
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D013030:Spain; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities