TY - JOUR
T1 - Parenting stress within mother-father dyads raising a young child with autism spectrum disorder
AU - Patel, Shaneha
AU - Rivard, Mélina
AU - Mello, Catherine
AU - Morin, Diane
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Miriam Foundation, and the Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Québec (MSSS), as well as funding from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec en Santé (FRQS) and the Fondation Sandra et Alain Bouchard to M. Rivard, and funding from the the Fondation Marcelle et Jean Coutu to M. Rivard and D. Morin. The authors would like to sincerely thank the research assistants involved in collecting, entering, and managing the data, and the families who took part in the study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - Background: The present study assessed different facets of parenting stress in families with a child with ASD (perceptions of parenting-related roles, parent-child interactions, and the child's behaviors) at three timepoints: right after receiving an ASD diagnosis, immediately following specialized intervention services, and one year after receiving services, upon primary school entry. Method: Participants were 258 mother-father dyads and their child. Parents provided demographic information and completed measures on their parenting stress and their child's autism symptom severity. Results: Partial correlations revealed that, at the time of diagnosis, after controlling for children's age and autism symptom severity, mothers’ and fathers’ stress was positively and significantly associated with each other, suggesting a bidirectional relation between partners’ psychological adjustment. Cross-lagged panel analyses demonstrated different longitudinal and transactional links, depending on the dimension of stress examined. Conclusions: Findings are discussed in terms of supports that could assist mothers and fathers of children with ASD.
AB - Background: The present study assessed different facets of parenting stress in families with a child with ASD (perceptions of parenting-related roles, parent-child interactions, and the child's behaviors) at three timepoints: right after receiving an ASD diagnosis, immediately following specialized intervention services, and one year after receiving services, upon primary school entry. Method: Participants were 258 mother-father dyads and their child. Parents provided demographic information and completed measures on their parenting stress and their child's autism symptom severity. Results: Partial correlations revealed that, at the time of diagnosis, after controlling for children's age and autism symptom severity, mothers’ and fathers’ stress was positively and significantly associated with each other, suggesting a bidirectional relation between partners’ psychological adjustment. Cross-lagged panel analyses demonstrated different longitudinal and transactional links, depending on the dimension of stress examined. Conclusions: Findings are discussed in terms of supports that could assist mothers and fathers of children with ASD.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rasd.2022.102051
DO - 10.1016/j.rasd.2022.102051
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140776595
SN - 1750-9467
VL - 99
JO - Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
JF - Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
M1 - 102051
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