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Research Paper | Psychology | India | Volume 13 Issue 8, August 2024 | Rating: 5.9 / 10
Psychological Morbidity, Parental Stress, Self - Efficacy, Family Pathology and Emotional Competence among Parents of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Children and Normal Children
Satheesha H. P. | Dr. S. G. Jadhav
Abstract: Parents are the valuable asset of the society as they are the back bone and the base for the personality development of a child. The well balanced development of the personality in the child mainly influenced from their parents. Psychological well - being plays a substantial role in the parenting process. The ADHD children are getting the treatment for their disorder. Meanwhile, the parents of the ADHD children are neglected in the treatment plan. Ignoring the psychological well - being of the parents of the ADHD children could become a major constraint to the parenting process as well as overall development of the society. The present study is undertaken to enquire the Psychological morbidity, Parental stress, Self - efficacy, Family pathology and Emotional competence among parents of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder Children and Normal Children. Further, the study explores the effect of socio - demographic variables like parent?s age, education, domicile, income of the family, family type, health issues of parents, gender of the child and severity of the ADHD on Psychological morbidity, Parental stress, Self - efficacy, Family pathology and Emotional competence among parents of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder Children. The statistical t test, Pearson correlation method and Multiple Regression analysis were used for the data analysis and the study result found that the parents of ADHD children have high Psychological morbidity, high Parental stress, low Self - efficacy, high Family pathology and low Emotional competence compared to parents of normal children. The mothers of ADHD children have high Psychological morbidity, low Parental stress, low Self - efficacy, high Family pathology and low Emotional competence than the fathers of ADHD children. Further, it is also found that the socio - demographic variable such as parent?s age, education, domicile, income of the family, family type, health issues of the parents, gender of the child and severity of the ADHD significantly predict the Psychological morbidity, Parental stress, Self - efficacy, Family pathology and Emotional competence among parents of ADHD children.
Keywords: ADHD children, Psychological morbidity, Parental stress, Self - efficacy, Family pathology, Emotional competence
Edition: Volume 13 Issue 8, August 2024,
Pages: 1840 - 1845