مستوى الطلاق العاطفي وعلاقته بالطموح المهني لدى أُمهات أطفال التوحد  في دولة فلسطين

Sami Mohsen  Alkhatatneh; Ahmed Abdellatif Abdelrahman  Abu Asad; Moatasem Mohammed  al-Abd

doi:10.35516/hum.v51i1.1394

Authors

Sami Mohsen Alkhatatneh Department of Counseling and Special Education, College of Educational Sciences, Mutah University, Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7412-5226
Ahmed Abdellatif Abdelrahman Abu Asad Department of Counseling and Special Education, College of Educational Sciences, Mutah University, Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5455-5285
Moatasem Mohammed al-Abd Labor Office, Director of Recruitment at Al-Istiqlal University, Palestine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5672-0590

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v51i1.1394

Keywords:

Emotional divorce, vocational ambition, mothers of autistic children

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to identify the level of emotional divorce among mothers of autistic children and its correlation to vocational ambition in the State of Palestine.

Methods: This study employed a descriptive-relational methodology, chosen for its alignment with the study's objectives involving seventy-eight mothers of autistic children in the State of Palestine. Participants were mothers from West Bank special education centers with diagnosed autistic children, selected conveniently. Two scales, the emotional divorce scale and vocational ambition scale, were developed and validated for reliability to fulfill the study's purposes.

Results: Despite an inverse correlation between emotional divorce and vocational ambition, the study concluded that the level of emotional divorce and vocational ambition is moderate. The results showed that the level of emotional divorce did not differ according to the severity of the disability. The results showed that the level of emotional divorce did not depend on the severity of the disability, but the level of vocational ambition varied according to the severity of the disability, with preference given to those with less severe disabilities.

Conclusions: The study highlights that emotional divorce negatively impacts mothers' ambition, emphasizing the importance of addressing it for enhanced professional outcomes. It recognizes the increased impact of severe disabilities on their children. Recommendations involve further research on the link between emotional divorce and vocational ambition in mothers of autistic children, exploring connections to marital distress, anxiety, and psychosomatic symptoms. It suggests offering psychological counseling services, with an emphasis on engaging educational counselors in special education centers.

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