Stress In Greek Mothers With Deaf Children: Effects of Child Characteristics, Family Resources and Cognitive Set

In an effort to understand the impact of their children's deafness on Greek mothers, demographic, disability-related and stress characteristics were examined with 42 hearing mothers and their deaf children. The work was based on Hill's ABCX model and Bronfenbrenner's social ecology mo...

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Published in:American annals of the deaf (Washington, D.C. 1886) D.C. 1886), 1995-07, Vol.140 (3), p.264-270
Main Authors: Konstantareas, M. Mary, Lampropoulou, Venetta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Rearing
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cultural factors
Cultural Influences
Deaf
Deaf education
Deafness
Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology
Family Environment
Family Health
Fathers
Foreign Countries
Greece
Greek language
Greeks
Hearing
Hearing loss
Humans
Locus of Control
Medical sciences
Mother Attitudes
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Mothers - psychology
Non tumoral diseases
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Parents
Parents & parenting
Questionnaires
Self Concept
Self esteem
Social research
Stress
Stress Variables
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:In an effort to understand the impact of their children's deafness on Greek mothers, demographic, disability-related and stress characteristics were examined with 42 hearing mothers and their deaf children. The work was based on Hill's ABCX model and Bronfenbrenner's social ecology model, entailing a microsystem, mesosystem, ecosystem, and macrosystem. In addition to child history obtained from school records, Rotter's locus of control scale, Coopersmith's self-esteem inventory and the Clarke questionnaire on resources and stress were given to mothers. Onset of deafness before 18 months of age was associated with greater maternal stress. A tendency for mothers of younger children to report more stress was evident. The mothers mainly had an external locus of control, attributing events to outside agents beyond their control. Self-esteem proved the best predictor of stress, with a low-esteem associated with greater reported stress. The findings are discussed with reference to disability-related and cultural factors.
ISSN:0002-726X
1543-0375
1543-0375
DOI:10.1353/aad.2012.0576