This study has meaning for finding the self-help group activity influence to parenting stress and parent efficacy about parents nurturing disabled children. In former study, the part of participating self-help group and evaluating the before-after rel...
This study has meaning for finding the self-help group activity influence to parenting stress and parent efficacy about parents nurturing disabled children. In former study, the part of participating self-help group and evaluating the before-after relationship is majority of the research. However, in this research, we have great significance on participating the self-group, observing the scene of activities, and verifying the efficacy. Furthermore, among self-group, we divide friendship-oriented group and lifelong education group. we will find out how much difference in case and make the background. This study purposes to remind the importance of the self-help group.
The interviewees are parents of disabled children living in Hwaseong, Suwon, Osan, Yangpyeong Gyeonggi-do. Both quantitative and qualitative method are used. Quantitative research used questionnaire and qualitative research progress by interview.
From November, 2016 to June, 2017, we have met parents each regions with doing questionnaire and interview(group, deep).
81 parents joined in questionnaire. 28 numbers are control group, friendship-oriented group which is experimental group I is number 29, lifelong education group which is experimental group II is number 24. 81 questionnaires was analyzed, analysis was processed by SPSS 22.0.
6 parents joined in deep interview. Participating group consist of 3 in experimental group I, 3 in experimental group II. Interview started with participants’ consent, record the voice and transcript that.
The result of quantitative research has shown that not meaningful effect unlike the hypothesis. In quantitative perspectives, it can’t prove the effect of lowering stress and reinforcing parenting efficacy for all self-help group participants through the group. Nevertheless, we can verify that positive effect is made by joining self-help group.
The interview show following common results with joining friendship-oriented group and lifelong education group.
First, there is a positive effect on decreasing parenting stress after doing self-help group. Second, The aspiration becoming developed parents about parents’ role enhanced.
It has in common things like this, we could find some different aspects between two groups. Parents taking care of disabled children in lifelong education group have pride, change the participating attitude positively. Transitions can be found in family domain.
Three expanded changes appeared in lifelong education group. First, they have time not only for nurturing disabled children, but for me while participating self-help group. The group has chance to make their time deviating from home life about nurturing during joining self-help group. Second, they could get chance finding ego by joining self-help group. They have had opportunity to erupt their energy and rediscover their ability. Third, ‘Myself’ becomes the subject of the role for developing social aspects about disabled people. In social domain, bigger than home domain, myself has pride that enhance the view of disabled people.
Although parents of disabled children join a self-help group, depend on what type of self-help group, the transition shape is different and expands wide range.
Suppose that self-help group develops as part of parent education, It is effective to relieve parenting stress and strengthen parent efficacy for parent of disabled children being congruent to parent’s environment, by being linked with lifelong education, it indicates that self-help group helps parents’ social domain.
From now on, for parents of disabled children to have more positive effect, if people makes self-help group linked to lifelong education considering parent’s common feature, parents satisfy more and self-help group is developed as run for a long time. After that, if it proceeds to positive way, the parents will get expectation for having great supporter.