Relationship Between Parenting and Social Adaptability of Young Children with Special Needs
With the coverage of special education gradually expanding to include preschoolers,increasing attention has been paid to the growth of preschoolers with special needs.This study selected 1943-7-year-old special needs children and their parents(194 pairs)and 2043-7-year-old normal children and their parents(204 pairs)as participants,and compared intergroup differences in parenting pressure,parenting styles and children's social adaptive ability,and analyzed the relationship of the former two factors with the latter one.The results showed that compared with normal children,children with special needs had lower level of social adaptive ability,and their parents had higher level of perceived parenting pressure and more negative parenting styles.Parenting styles partially mediated the relationship between perceived parenting stress and children's social adaptive ability in each child-parent group,but the mediating effect of parenting styles was stronger in special needs child-parent group.Compared with normal children's parents,perceived parenting stress and parenting styles of special needs children's parents had greater predictive effect on special needs children's social adaptation ability.Accordingly,this study proposes corresponding suggestions and countermeasures for alleviating parenting stress and improving parenting styles.
Children with special needsYoung childrenParenting stressParenting styleSocial adaptation
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