Summary: | 碩士 === 稻江科技暨管理學院 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 105 === In order to understand the impact of ecological support system on the parenting ability of the mother of a young child with developmental delays, this study took the self-designed “Parenting Ability Questionnaire” and the standardized test tool, “Parenting Stress Index” (PSI, revised by Yuxiu Weng, 2016) as the study tool, taking the 8 administrative districts of Old Taichung City (a total of 228 private preschool in Central District, East District, West District, South District, North District, Xitun District, Nantun District and Beitun District) as the study field; then, by random sampling, 4 districts (West District, South District, North District and Beitun District) were chosen in the Early Childhood Educare Website, a total of 116 accredited and registered private preschools as population; finally, by equivalent convenience sampling, 5 private preschools from each district were chosen, totally 20 private preschools. 1 mother was chosen from each preschool, totally 20 mothers of young children with developmental delays as the object of study to carry out a questionnaire survey. Among them, the independent variable referred to the support system obtained by the 20 mothers, including the Support System (1) development of the young children, support of family members to the young children, education and medical rehabilitation resources obtained by the young child, and the Support System (2) the mother’s age, education level, occupation, place of birth, rearing attitude, stressor and the departmental support system; the dependent variable referred to the parenting ability. This study was to discuss the impact of ecological support system on the parenting ability and parenting stress of the 20 mothers of young children with developmental delays in Taichung. The study results showed that: (1) in the 20 mothers, 4 mothers’ parenting stress was too high, accounting for 25% of the subjects; (2) in the 20 mothers, 2 mothers’ parenting stress was below the normal range; (3) the parenting stress of 75% of the subjects originated from young children caring and parenting issues; (4) besides that the development of young children’ emotional behavior was positively related to mother’s age, different variables did not show any correlation with the young children’ development in different fields; (5) the intervention of ecological support system affected the parenting ability of the mother of a young child with developmental delays. Subject to the number of samples studied, it is worthwhile to investigate whether the results can be inferred the population. In conclusion, it is suggested that the government and education, health care, social administration and other units should strengthen the cooperation between various support systems, provide diversified, individualized and family-mode early intervention services, and offer the courses about parenting education to parents to support the parenting ability of the mothers of young children with developmental delays.
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