title: The Relationship Between Challenging Behaviour, Cognitions and Stress in Mothers of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cognitions are starting to receive more prominence as important when examining a number of factors including the topography of challenging behaviour. This study examined the relationships between maternal stress, challenging behaviour (aggressive and self-injurious behaviours) and parental cognitions and specifically whether maternal cognitions mediated the effect of challenging behaviour on parenting stress.
  
  
  METHODS
  46 mothers of children and young adults with ID completed questionnaires regarding their child's challenging behaviour, maternal cognitions and stress.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant correlations were found between challenging behaviour and maternal stress. The overall mediation models for aggression and self-injurious behaviour were significant. The Challenging Behaviour Perception Questionnaire: Consequences client subscale was the only independent significant mediator for both behaviours.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cognitions do play an important part in mediating the relationship between challenging behaviour and stress. Further research is needed to examine the similarities and differences between the mediation models for aggression and self-injurious behaviour.
authors.affiliation: University of Birmingham,UK.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.affiliation: University of Birmingham,UK.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.affiliation: University of Kent,UK.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hardiman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Challenging behaviour; cognition; intellectual disability; mothers; stress