The role of parental stress and positive perception in predicting the ‎marital satisfaction in mothers of children with special needs & normal ‎children

Abstract

This research was done with the goal of studying the role of positive perception and parental stress ‎in prediction of marital in mothers of children with special needs & normal children‏.‏‎ The population ‎of this research was two groups of mothers with normal children and children with special needs. ‎So, 161 mothers were sampled by nonprobability & convenient method. Measurement tools ‎included Parental Stress Scale, Positive Perception Scale and Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale. The ‎relationship between variables and their prediction role were analyzed in the structural model by the ‎AMOS.V24 and the differences between the two groups of mothers were analyzed with ‎independent t-test by the SPSS.V24 software. The results showed that there is a significant negative ‎correlation between parental stress and marital satisfaction and there is a significant positive ‎correlation between positive perception and marital satisfaction. Positive perception has good ‎predictive power for marital satisfaction. The results also showed that there were a significant ‎difference between two groups of mothers in positive perception and parental stress.‎‏ ‏Positive ‎perception to self and one’s abilities can play an effective role in reduction of the stress associated ‎with parenting tasks and increasing marital satisfaction, especially in mothers of children with ‎special needs.‎

Keywords

• positive perception
• parental stress ‎
• marital satisfaction