A Study on the Coping Strategies by Mothers of Preschool Children with Disabilities to Deal with Parent-Child Conflict

• Main Authors: Shu-Li Chang, 張淑麗
• Other Authors: Yueh-Hsien Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23807106684940253962

碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 幼兒保育學系 === 94 === The purpose of the study was to find out how mothers of preschool children with disabilities to deal with parent-child conflict by using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Samples were those mothers whose preschool children with disabilities, such as mental retardation, multi-handicapped, hard-of-hearing and speech impaired, autism, or via doctor’s diagnosis approve as development retarded from three to six. The quantitative sample size was 164 and qualitative samples size was 5. The questionnaire “the Inventory of Mother’s Coping Strategies of Parent-Child Conflict” was developed by the author and using quantitative data analyzed and repeated measures ANOVA and MANOVA by SPSS 10.5 as data analysis tools. The major findings were as follows: 1. Mothers of preschool children with disabilities had significant differences when they deal with parent-child conflict. The cooperative strategy was used most. The compromising, forcing and accommodating strategies were in line with next. The least used strategy was avoiding strategy. 2. Mothers’ coping strategy of different type of disabled children only had significant differences in two parent-child conflict situations such as “dressing” and “shopping”. In “dressing” conflict situation, the development retarded children’s mothers significantly used accommodating strategy more than mothers of hard-of-hearing & speech impaired and multi-handicapped. In “shopping” conflict situation, the development retarded children’s mothers also significantly used forcing strategy more than mothers of multi-handicapped. 3. Mothers of different marriage status showed significant differences while dealing with parent-child conflict. Single-parent mothers used avoiding strategy more than other mothers. Mothers with other variables such as vocation, age, education, child number and child gender showed no significant difference on these 5 coping strategies of parent-child conflict