Mothering in Families With and Without a Child with Disability
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Disability, Development and Education
- Vol. 45 (3) , 313-322
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912980450306
Abstract
This paper describes some features of a study which compares and contrasts mothers’ perceptions of their family life in three different family environments, those without a child with disability and those families who live with a child with an intellectual or physical disability. All families have children in the middle childhood period allowing the mothers to reflect on earlier experiences and changes in their family life. Mothers’ psychological characteristics are explored in terms of the coping resources they utilise when meeting stressful life situations in their family and how their personal resilience and vulnerability is related to these individual coping resources.Keywords
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