A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Maternal Parenting Stress on Parenting Burnout for Mothers of Children With Developmental Disorders
Because of the particularity of children with developmental disorders,their parents are faced with heavy parenting pressure and easily fall into the risk of parenting burnout.How to prevent and alleviate the impact of parenting stress on parenting burnout for parents of children with developmental disorders needs more attention and research.The influence of maternal parenting stress on parenting burnout for mothers of 7 children with developmental disorders was investigated by interview in this paper.The results show that the parenting pressure is caused by economic pressure,interpersonal relationship,parenting responsibility and spiritual burden;after long-term exposure to high-level parenting stress,mothers of developmentally disabled children have the risk of parenting burnout,which shows the negative symptoms of psychological collapse,confusion and helplessness,exhaustion,inner self-blame and inner conflict;economic status,family support,personal quality and self-guidance can alleviate the impact of parenting stress on parenting burnout for mothers of children with developmental disorders.
mothers of children with developmental disordersparenting stressparenting burnoutqualitative study