Nurturing stress of a mother deteriorates the individual function of psycosocial, and as a result, it gives a with Mentally Retarded children bad effects in nurturing and education of child. So we need a solution to cope with a mother's nurturing stre...
Nurturing stress of a mother deteriorates the individual function of psycosocial, and as a result, it gives a with Mentally Retarded children bad effects in nurturing and education of child. So we need a solution to cope with a mother's nurturing stress effectively.
The purpose of this study on social support in stress of mothers with mentally retarded children.
The survey research was conduct with three kinds of questionnaire: (1) Demographic information sheet,(2) Parent Stress Index,(3) Family Social Support.
The survey was sent 260 mothers of children with mentally retarded children showed who attent a special education facility in Chung Cheong Buk Do.
The response rate with mothers was 89%(239) and analysed the statistics of these data in using the spsswin. Means and standard deviation were calculated to get the level and sort of the stress. Multiple Regression Analysis and T-test were used to analyze the collected data.
The results were as follows:
It showed that mothers with mentally retarded children spent in average 8.06 hours in bringing up,4.42 hours in vocational activity, 2.01 hours in spare time,6.14 hours in sleep. And the result on the relation between a bring-up stress of the mentally retarded children and a social support level is as follows.
First, it showed the mothers with mentally retarded children had the higher stress than the middle one. The most stressful fields were the social-environmental ones, and the following were the future fields, economical fields, psychological fields in order. it showed the higher the dependence grade of ability carrying out the everyday life of the mentally retarded children were, the higher the stress of their mothers were.
Second, in bring-up mentally retarded children, it showed the mothers were supported most from the therapist , teachers, and the followings were their spouse.
Third, it showed there was an inverse relation between the bring-up stress of the mentally retarded children and the social support. That is the more the social support was, the less the bring -up stress was.
In conclusion, social work practice should focused on developing program for decreasing mother's stress, and developing the social support in the functional aspect as a way of reducing mother's distress.