Quality of Life, Coping Styles, Stress Levels, and Time Use in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Comparing Single Versus Coupled HouseholdsShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: Journal of autism and developmental disorders, ISSN 0162-3257, E-ISSN 1573-3432, Vol. 47, no 10, p. 3189-3203Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study aimed to examine the influence of differences in household status on the parental stress, coping, time use and quality of life (QoL) among mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders. Forty-three single and 164 coupled mothers completed the survey. Data were analysed using multivariate logistic regression. We found that single mothers were 1.05 times more likely to report lower levels of environmental QoL. Whilst they were 1.73 times more likely to use acceptance coping style, this association did not persist after adjusting for total number of children, household income and employment status. There was no difference in time use and stress between these mothers. Possible environmental issues for single mothers and implications for future research are discussed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2017. Vol. 47, no 10, p. 3189-3203
Keywords [en]
ASD, Coping, Quality of life, Single and coupled mothers, Stress, Time use, adolescent, adult, Article, autism, child, child parent relation, cognitive defect, coping behavior, cross-sectional study, employment status, environmental factor, female, health survey, household, household income, human, intellectual impairment, major clinical study, male, parental stress, priority journal, single parent, time
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-38408DOI: 10.1007/s10803-017-3240-zISI: 000411120300021PubMedID: 28730416Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85025114748Local ID: HHJCHILDISOAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-38408DiVA, id: diva2:1172307
2018-01-092018-01-092023-05-08Bibliographically approved