The birth of a child with disability has a continued effect on the family. Especially, the mother's stress and inadaptability has influenced to the security of the child and the family. Therefore, It is important that the mother's stress and difficult...
The birth of a child with disability has a continued effect on the family. Especially, the mother's stress and inadaptability has influenced to the security of the child and the family. Therefore, It is important that the mother's stress and difficultly in terms of having the child with disability should be understood and the adaptability to the child should be helped.
The study verified the relationship between the mother's stress, selfe - steem and social supports in order to suggest concrete social welfare services for helping the mental and physical adaptability of mothers.
The subjects were 250 mothers who had their children with mental retardation educated and who experienced to receive social services in Ulsan area. They were asked to answer the questionnarie and 134 subjects resent the questionnarie. The measurements of the survey was sociodemograpic characteristic about a basic information, stress scale which used by Lee so ran, Rogenberg's self-esteem scale, Park gi won's social support scale. The reliabilitys of the measurements are stress scale .91, self-esteem scale .73, social support scale .94. The survey information was analyzed by SPSS 10.0.
The result are as follow;
First, Sociodemograpic characteristic effected on the stress; In accordance with the severity of handcap, the level of the stress was different.
Second, Sociodemograpic characteristic effected on the self-esteem are the mother's educational attainment.
Third, The social supports in functional perspective are the religion and family income.
As last, In terms of the relationship between the stress and social support, self-esteem and stress the both have negative relationship, More information support, emotional support, material support, evaluating support get, the less the stress, and self-esteem have. The stress and self esteem are highly related.
As a result of the study, the followings are suggested;
First, The education and treatment institutions should expand in order to decrease the financial burdens because the mothers have the stress related to the cause of disabilities, and education.
Second, The information systems related to the screening and the diagnosis of the handicap and the education plan should be developed. The institutions for the disabled, the sheltered work shops, and vocational training center should be improved in quality and quantity.
Third, To give the mothers their recreational time, the services such as day-care should be offered.
At last, The mother's emotional adaption to the child should be treated as important as the education of the children with disabilities.