Challenging Behaviours among Children with Intellectual Disability: The Hope Busters?

Hope helps in coping among parents with intellectually disabled children. This study compared the level of hope among parents of such children with and without challenging behaviour. The participants were parents of children with multiple, single and no challenging behaviours. These three groups wer...

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Published in:Journal of intellectual disabilities 2002-09, Vol.6 (3), p.253-261
Main Authors: Padencheri, Seema, Russell, Paul S. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior disorders
Behavior Problems
Child Rearing
Children
Children with disabilities
Coping
Disorders and maladjustments
Educational sciences
Hope
Hopelessness
Intellectual disabilities
Learning disabilities
Maladjustment
Mental disorders
Mental Retardation
Parent Attitudes
Parents & parenting
Physical and mental disorders
Regression analysis
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Summary:Hope helps in coping among parents with intellectually disabled children. This study compared the level of hope among parents of such children with and without challenging behaviour. The participants were parents of children with multiple, single and no challenging behaviours. These three groups were compared for their total and subscale hope scores with analysis of variance. Multiple regression analysis was conducted with the total hope score as the dependent variable. The results showed that hopelessness was related to challenging behaviour. The post hoc test showed different levels of hopelessness between parents in challenging behaviour groups in relation to the control group. In particular, only the parents of intellectually disabled children who had multiple challenging behaviours had significantly lower hope scores than the other two groups. Multimodal parental attitude intervention models should address the role challenging behaviours play in contributing to hopelessness among parents.
ISSN:1469-0047
1744-6295
DOI:10.1177/1469004702006003035