| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 教育行政研究所 === 93 === To Investigate The Parental Stresses of Children with Home-bounded Services in Ping-Tung
Abstract
The purposes of this study included: (1) to investigate the parental stresses of
children with home-bounded services in Ping-Tung, (2) to investigate the various variables (ex. sex, age, educational background, religion, marital status, age of children, and number of children) among parents of children with home-bounded services, and (3) to investigate the parental raising attitudes toward their children with home-bounded services. The instrument of this study was used “Parenting Stress Index (PSI by Abidin, R. R.)and edited by Yu-Xiu Wung (2001). The researcher used this instrument to investigate parental stresses of children with home-bounded services in Ping-Tung. She distributed about 50 copies of the questionnaires. The content of this instrument was: Personal Ability, Parental Roles Join, Parental Roles Restriction, Conjugal Relation, Social Isolation, Health, Distractibility/Hyperactivity, Child Reinforces Parent, Feeling/Mood, Acceptance, Adaptability, and Demanding ness. In addition, the researcher interviewed 9 parents of children with home-bounded services, she teaches their children for a long time.
According to the data analysis, the researcher used the mean, t-test, and one-way ANOVA test to run all the data collection. She also analyzed the interviewing data by verbal word-by-word.
The following findings of this study were:
(1) The full scale of the parental stress of children with home-bounded services
(M=244) was higher than the general population.
(2) The parental “social isolation “ (M=15.57) and “parental health” (M=11.57)
were lower than the general population.
(3) The average of parental stress in: distractibility/hyperactivity (M=18.18), and parental reinforcement (M=10.02). Adaptability (M=31.34) was the highest, parental reinforces (M=10.02) was the lowest in the parental stress of subscales.
(4) There was a significant difference in parental stress of “Demanding Domain” (t=2.104) and the total score of “Child Domain” (t=2.077). It was indicated that father’s stress was more than mother’s. did In addition, there was a significant difference in parental educational variable (F=5.251), the finding was indicated that the parents with elementary degrees had higher stresses than the parents with college degrees. Moreover, there were significant differences in the number of children and parental health (F=4.834), the findings were shown that the stress of parents having 4 children was higher than parents having 3, 2, or 1 children/child.
(5) The finding of the interview was shown that parents more concerns and worried about their children’s death, educational placement, respite care service, social welfare, and so on..
Based on those above findings, the researcher will give some educational suggestions and recommendations to parents, government, and teachers.
Keywords: children with home-bounded-services, parental stress, respite care service
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