Psychological Distress in Jordanian Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Positive Reappraisal Coping
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Participants
All parents who were invited to participate in the study met the following inclusion criteria: (a) having a child diagnosed with ASD, diagnosed using the DSM-V criteria; (b) being literate and Arabic-speaking; (c) not diagnosed with any cognitive disorder or a psychiatric illness; (d) able to read the questionnaire materials and willing to complete all study measures (e) living with the child diagnosed with ASD in the same home.
Based on a sample power calculation for the hierarchical multiple
Sample Characteristics
Only 31 out of the 104 parents who completed the study were fathers. The mean age for parents was about 36 years. Two mothers were single parents, while all the other parents were married. All participants were literate and able to read and write Arabic. Most participants (70%) were not currently employed. The majority of participants (71%) whose parents completed the study had medical insurance covering the cost of private speech therapy and behavioral therapy sessions. About 78% of parents
Discussion
This study examined the role of PRC in predicting psychological distress (i.e., anxiety, depression, and stress) in parents of children with ASD after the influence of parental age and gender was controlled. In the current study, parental age and gender were found to predict parental stress, but not parental anxiety and depression. The small sample size in relation to the number of the independent variables could contribute to the nonsignificance of parental age and gender to predict parental
Acknowledgment
The authors acknowledge the partial funding from the University of Jordan.
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Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Informed consent: “Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.”