| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 心理學系碩士班 === 106 === Background and objectives: Parents of the children with developmental delay (DD) experienced more parenting stress than parents of the children with typical development (TD). Their parenting stress would impede personal health, interfere with family functioning and parenting behavior. Therefore, it is important to examine the coping strategies for parenting stress. The present study recruited caregivers of preschool children with DD and investigates the mediation and moderation of coping strategies on parenting stress and their adaptation.
Method: Participants included 84 caregivers of preschool children with DD. We use the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) to evaluate the parenting stress and the Brief Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced Scale (B-COPE) to evaluate the coping strategies. In addition, the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-Ⅱ), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) and World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) were used to evaluate the depression, hopelessness and quality of life, respectively.
Result: (1) Exploratory factor analysis of B-COPE subscales identified four factors: Problem-focused coping, social support coping, avoidance/distraction coping, and distraction/humor coping. (2)The problem-focused coping negatively correlated to the depression and hopelessness and significantly positively correlated to quality of life. The social support coping negatively correlated to the depression and hopelessness and significantly positively correlated to quality of life. The avoidance/distraction coping significantly positively correlated to the depression and negatively correlated to the quality of life. There was no significant correlation between distraction/humor coping and adaption. (3) The problem-focused coping, avoidance/distraction coping and distraction/humor coping moderated between parenting stress and depression.
Conclusion：This study found that the problem-focused coping is the most effective strategy to improve the adaption for caregivers of the children with DD. And, the problem-focused coping and distraction/humor coping decreased the negative emotion of caregivers but the avoidance/distraction coping increased the negative emotion. The findings provided implications for the adaption of parents of the children with DD.
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