STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES OF MOTHERS OF CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT AUTISM

ANAMIKA CHAUHAN , DR ANEETA JOSHI

Mothers, Autism, Stress, Coping strategies.

Parenting is a challenging job. Being a parent of a child with autism is more challenging and tough. The present study aims to find out the stress and coping strategies in mothers of children with and without autism. Data were collected from 25 mothers of children with autism and 25 mothers of children without autism. SPSSI it is invented by Arun Kumar Singh; Ashish K. Singh & Arpana Singh (2011). This inventory consists of 35 items. The inventory had 35 items with three options seldom, sometimes, and frequently. The second measures used in this study was coping strategies scale (CSS). This scale is developed by A.K. Srivastava. The scale contains 50 items, to be rated on five-point scale, describing varieties of coping behavior was used to collect the data. The questionnaire-based survey method was used to collect data. Findings revealed that mothers of children with autism were found high in their stress scores as compare to mothers of children without autism. Approach-oriented coping (problem focused coping) used by both group of mothers to cope from stress.

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"STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES OF MOTHERS OF CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT AUTISM", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.c824-c827, March-2023, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2303293.pdf

Volume 8 Issue 3, March-2023

Pages : c824-c827

Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_189253

Published Paper Id: IJNRD2303293

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Research Area: Arts

Country: GREATER NOIDA, UTTTAR PRADESH, India

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