Resilience of families with handicapped children

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Published: Jan 30, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v7.827
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Resilience family family resilience disabilities

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Ana Jorge M.
Instituto Politécnico de Guarda
Sandra Eusébio
Instituto Politécnico de Guarda
Fernanda Lopes
Instituto Politécnico de Guarda

Abstract

Realizing the fact that despite having a disabled child and for families that constitute a painful experience, they are able to respond positively to adversity that arise and offer risk to its homeostasis, demonstrating resilient families are afforded the preparation of this study whose objectives were: to determine the levels of resilience of families with disabled children, to analyze factors that may interfere with the levels of resilience of families with disabled children and check if there are differences between the levels of resilience of families with disabled children and families with children with serious health problems or conical. The method used in the study was a quantitative and descriptive-correlational and not experimental type. Data were collected from an accidental non-probabilistic sample of parents/families of children with disabilities or serious or chronic diseases, which constitute the two groups of households (with and without disabilities) in our sample, followed by consulting a Department of Pediatrics totaling one hundred and eighty-six. The data collection instrument used was a questionnaire. Based on the data we found that these families mostly have average levels of resilience, with no record of low levels of resilience. The family resilience is not related to family characteristics, the characteristics of the disability, family and social support available, relating only to one of the dimensions that integrates family functioning, family satisfaction. Comparing the resilience levels of the two groups of families, we found no significant difference.

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Jorge M., A., Eusébio, S., & Lopes, F. (2014). Resilience of families with handicapped children. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 7(1), 561–568. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v7.827
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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2014): LIVING TOGETHER AND CONDUCT
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