The parpose of this study wes to examine the relationship between child-rearing stress of mothers who bring up children with physical disabilities attending special school, and their self-esteem and stress control measures.
The subjects of the study w...
The parpose of this study wes to examine the relationship between child-rearing stress of mothers who bring up children with physical disabilities attending special school, and their self-esteem and stress control measures.
The subjects of the study were 215 mothers of students in special schools in four large cities. As a measuring tool, child-rearing stress test, self-esteem scale, questionnaire about stress control method were used based on previous study.
The following are the found major results.
First of all, child-rearing stress of mothers who bring up children with physical disabilities was significantly high. Among subordinate variables, educational stress was highest while others are in the order of psychological, social, physical and economical stress.
Secondly, self-esteem of mothers who bring up children with physical disabilities was average while their stress control pattern was positive. Among subordinate variables, the highest factor was optimistic definition.
Thirdly, the more self-esteem mothers who bring up children with physical disabilities have, the less child-rearing stress they feel. In subordinate variables of child-rearing stress, the higher self-esteem they have, the lower psychological, social, physical and economical stress they feel.
Fourthly, in the relationship between self-esteem and stress control, subordinate variables of stress control including optimistic definition, psychological stability and direct problem solving presented a static correlation with self-esteem.
Fifthly, in difference of stress control by self-esteem, a group with high self-esteem showed high in optimistic definition, psychological stability and direct problem solving.
Sixth, a group with more economical stress had no difference in optimistic definition and direct problem solving while had meaningful difference in psychological stability.
Psychological, social and physical stress present meaningful difference in psychological stability. In addition, a group with less educational stress had higher psychological stability while medium group showed highest score in direct problem solving.