استراتيجيات التعايش لدى أمهات الأطفال ذوي الإعاقة الجسدية

Ali Saleh  Jarwan; Ghufran Amer  Melhem

doi:10.35516/hum.v50i4.315

Authors

Ali Saleh Jarwan Department Counseling & Educational Psychology, Faculty Education, yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0101-6974
Ghufran Amer Melhem AL-Boqai for Care & Comprehensive Rehabilitation, Irbid, Jordan. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-6917

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i4.315

Keywords:

Coping strategies, mothers, physical disability

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to identify the coping strategies employed by mothers of children with physical disabilities and examine whether these strategies varied based on two variables: educational level and age.

Methods: The study involved a sample of 120 mothers of children with physical disabilities. To achieve the study's objectives, the researchers utilized the coping strategies scale developed by Pritzlaff (2001), which comprised 30 items grouped into five categories: social support, problem redefinition, religious and spiritual support, family mobilization to seek and accept help, and negative evaluation.

Results: The study revealed that the coping strategy of religious and spiritual support was the most prevalent among mothers with physically disabled children, followed by problem redefinition, social support, family mobilization to seek and accept help, and finally, the negative evaluation strategy. Furthermore, the results indicated that there were no significant differences in coping strategies among mothers with physical disabilities based on their educational level or age.

Conclusions: Based on the study's findings, the researchers recommend conducting training courses for mothers of children with physical disabilities to equip them with strategies for fostering positive coexistence with their child's disability.

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