Family Relations and Marital Quality When a Mentally Handicapped Child is Present
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 61 (3) , 911-919
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1987.61.3.911
Abstract
The quality of both family relations and marital satisfaction was assessed in 131 two-parent families who had a mentally retarded child. Both family relations and marital satisfaction were seen as outcome variables reflecting how families cope with the chronic strain of a special child. Social desirability was controlled, and family relations and marital satisfaction were related to a variety of psychosocial and child-specific variables.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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