Mateřské zvládání zátěže spojené se specifickou poruchou učení

• Main Author: Kouřilová, Jana
• Other Authors: Vágnerová, Marie
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-327438

TITLE: Maternal coping with stress associated with specific learning disabilities AUTHOR: Mgr. Jana Kouřilová DEPARTMENT: Psychology Department, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague SUPERVISOR: Prof. PhDr. et RNDr. Marie Vágnerová, CSc. ABSTRACT: Dissertation theses is focused on coping strategies analysis of mothers of children with specific learning dissabilities. The first two chapters are purely theoretical. They deal partly with SLD, partly with materhood of children with SLD. The research was realized as a qualitative inquiry based on principles of grounded theory. The data collecting was realized through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 mothers of children with SLD. It was confirmed that SLD represent stress for mother which intensity depends not only on child's manifesting and mother's interpretation of these manifestations but also on school aspects of situation (especially on felt school pressure or support) and mother's possibilitites of controlling SLD. The coping strategies are primarily influenced by two factors: concept of motherhood and mother's perception of the school and education. Family context and the influence of experts or counsellors were identified as other variebles. The basic maternal strategies of coping with SLD include home teaching, strenghtening of...