Dey Nutifafa Eugene Yaw, Amponsah Benjamin
Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 84, Legon, Ghana.
Heliyon. 2020 Nov 24;6(11):e05569. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05569. eCollection 2020 Nov.
While parenting a child with special needs is burdensome, some parents do overcome through protective resources. Social support has been widely linked to this unique ability to overcome the challenges of raising a child with special needs. In spite of this, there is still paucity of research about the influence of the sources of perceived social support on this ability, known as resilience.
This study examined three sources of perceived social support-family, friends and significant other-on the resilience of Ghanaian parents raising children with special needs while adjusting for covariates (parental gender, marital status and educational level).
One hundred and seven (107) biological parents were recruited from special schools and parents support groups in Accra, Ghana. They completed paper-and-pencil or online questionnaires on resilience and perceived social support.
Output from hierarchical multiple regression after adjusting for covariates showed that only support from significant others predicted resilience. Additionally, being married was positively and holding a higher education was inversely associated with resilience.
These findings indicate the importance of support from significant others in the resiliency of parents but underscore the need to fully integrate and emphasize support from the other sources in resilience enhancing interventions.
养育有特殊需求的孩子负担沉重，但一些父母借助保护性资源克服了困难。社会支持与这种克服养育特殊需求孩子挑战的独特能力广泛相关。尽管如此，关于感知到的社会支持来源对这种被称为复原力的能力的影响的研究仍然匮乏。
本研究考察了感知到的社会支持的三个来源——家人、朋友和重要他人——对加纳养育特殊需求孩子的父母的复原力的影响，同时对协变量（父母性别、婚姻状况和教育水平）进行了调整。
从加纳阿克拉的特殊学校和家长支持团体中招募了107名亲生父母。他们完成了关于复原力和感知到的社会支持的纸笔或在线问卷。
在对协变量进行调整后，分层多元回归的结果显示，只有来自重要他人的支持能够预测复原力。此外，已婚与复原力呈正相关，而拥有较高教育水平与复原力呈负相关。
这些发现表明重要他人的支持对父母复原力的重要性，但强调在增强复原力的干预措施中需要充分整合并强调来自其他来源的支持。
