TY - JOUR
T1 - Symptom Severity, Internalized and Externalized Behavioral and Emotional Problems
T2 - Links with Parenting Stress in Mothers of Children Recently Diagnosed with Autism
AU - Mello, Catherine
AU - Rivard, Mélina
AU - Morin, Diane
AU - Patel, Shaneha
AU - Morin, Marjorie
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by grants from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec en santé and the Fondation Sandra et Alain Bouchard to the second author, as well as funding from the Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Québec and the Fondation Marcelle et Jean Coutu to the second and third authors. The authors would like to thank Patrick Coulombe for his advice on statistical analyses and Marie-Annick Lussier for her assistance in entering and managing data. Portions of this work were presented at the 15th Annual Autism Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI)
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - The present study examined which aspects of the child’s behavior and clinical profile accounted for three dimensions of parenting stress: related to parenting roles, to interactions with the child, and to the child. Measures of adaptive behavior, intellectual functioning, autism symptom severity, and challenging behavior and emotional difficulties were examined as predictors of parenting stress in 157 mothers of children recently diagnosed with autism. Children’s emotional problems and aggressive behavior were most predictive of parenting distress, whereas autism symptoms along with emotional problems and aggressive behavior, respectively, were linked to stress pertaining to interactions and to the child. These findings underscore the need for comprehensive and complementary interventions that focus on children’s behavior and symptoms but also on parent adjustment.
AB - The present study examined which aspects of the child’s behavior and clinical profile accounted for three dimensions of parenting stress: related to parenting roles, to interactions with the child, and to the child. Measures of adaptive behavior, intellectual functioning, autism symptom severity, and challenging behavior and emotional difficulties were examined as predictors of parenting stress in 157 mothers of children recently diagnosed with autism. Children’s emotional problems and aggressive behavior were most predictive of parenting distress, whereas autism symptoms along with emotional problems and aggressive behavior, respectively, were linked to stress pertaining to interactions and to the child. These findings underscore the need for comprehensive and complementary interventions that focus on children’s behavior and symptoms but also on parent adjustment.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10803-021-05131-4
DO - 10.1007/s10803-021-05131-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 34120257
AN - SCOPUS:85107753431
SN - 0162-3257
VL - 52
SP - 2400
EP - 2413
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
IS - 6
ER -