Factors Related to the Anxiety of Mothers with Exceptional Children

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine andpredict factors related to anxiety of mothers with exceptional children inJiroft city in 2011. In this applied and correlative research, the statisticalpopulation includes all the mothers of mentally retarded, deaf and blindchildren who are being educated in schools special for exceptional children inJiroft. The sample consists of 60 mothers of exceptional children who areselected by random sampling. The answers given to Beck anxiety and theresearcher-made questionnaires are analyzed by using correlation coefficientand multiple regression method. Analysis of the data reveal that there is asignificant correlation between the mother’s anxiety and the knowledge ofmothers about how to raise and treat exceptional children, the sociallimitations of mothers, the root cause of disability of the exceptional child,the effect of the child’s disability on family relationships, sense of responsibilityof mothers, and the father’s presence. In addition, the result of this studyshow there are factors that increase the mothers’ anxiety

Keywords

• anxiety
• anxiety-related factors
• exceptional children