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What is Extra-Familial Stress

Chapter 6
Handbook of Research on Diagnosing, Treating, and Managing Intellectual Disabilities
Stress, which includes speculations (cognitive responses) following with an alarm reaction and resistance (physiological response), experienced by an individual regarding the feelings of the members outside the family, about something thought to be bad in his or her family.
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Stress and Resilience in Parents of Intellectually Disabled Children
K. R. Santhosh (Jain University, India)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0089-6.ch006
Abstract
The present study is an attempt to find out the factors of stress that could act against the resilience in the parents of intellectually disabled children. The sample consisted of 50 parents of intellectually disabled children from different panchayats in the Calicut, Kannur, Wayanad districts in the state of Kerala, India. Resilience in the parents was measured using “Bharathiar University Resilience Scale” developed by Annalakshmi (2009). To measure stress among the parents “Stress Scale for Parents of mentally challenged (SPMC)”, developed by Rejitha, Biji and Jayan (2005) was used. As per the results, extra-familial stress was a negative predictor of resilience in the parents of the intellectually disabled children. Results further indicated that the parents who were in a late part of the young adulthood period and old were relatively more resilient than the parents who were in the earlier part of the young adulthood period.
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