Structural model of Psychological Well-Being Based on Parental Stress and Rumination with the mediating role of family Resilience in mothers of exceptional children

Subject Areas : Educational

Rezvan Homaei ¹ , Azam Tabib zadeh ²

1 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - M. A graduated, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

Received: 2020-08-24 Accepted : 2020-12-27 Published : 2023-05-22

Keywords: parental stress, rumination, psychological well-being, Family Resilience,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to determine the structural model of psychological well- The purpose of the present study was to determine the structural model of psychological well-being based on parental stress and rumination with the mediating role of family resilience in mothers of exceptional children. The research method was correlational and structural equation model. The statistical population of all mothers of exceptional children (blind, deaf, autistic and cerebral palsy) in Ahvaz in 1398 was 3562 people. 123 of them were selected by available sampling method. Data were collected using the Psychological Well-being Scale (Reef, 1989), Parenting Stress Index (Abidin, 1992), Rumination Scale (Nolen, Hoxma & Morrow, 1991), and Family Resilience Inventory (McCubbin & Thompson, 1986). Data were analyzed using path analysis of AMOS 23 software the results showed that there was an indirect relationship between parental stress and psychological well-being with the mediating role of family resilience (p 0.01), and between rumination with psychological well-being with the mediating role of family resilience (p 0.05).

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