Department of Educational Sciences, College of Education, Majmaah University, Majmaah, 11952, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Special Education, College of Education, Majmaah University, Majmaah, 11952, Saudi Arabia.
Res Dev Disabil. 2021 Jun;113:103943. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103943. Epub 2021 Mar 31.
There are few studies about the role of resilience and social support in post-traumatic growth (PTG) in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
This study examined the relationship between social support, resilience, and PTG and the predictive role of resilience and social support related to PTG in Saudi Arabian mothers.
A survey-based quantitative study was conducted in 88 mothers aged 18-46 years (M = 33.5; SD = 8.02) who had a child with ASD. They were sampled from nine day care centers in Riyadh and the Central-Eastern-Southern region.
The findings showed a significant positive correlation between perceived social support, resilience, and PTG, and revealed that Resilience-competence was the only significant predictor of PTG-personal strength, appreciation of life, spiritual change new possibilities, and total PTG, while positive acceptance of change was a significant predictor of PTG-relating to others. Moreover, social support from friends and significant others were significant predictors of PTG-total.
We found that, for mothers of a child with ASD in Saudi Arabia, the biggest factors predicting post-traumatic growth were a notion of personal competence and social support from friends. Intervention is suggested to lower the risk of trauma.
关于韧性和社会支持在自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童父母创伤后成长（PTG）中的作用的研究较少。
本研究探讨了社会支持、韧性与 PTG 的关系，以及韧性和社会支持对沙特阿拉伯母亲 PTG 的预测作用。
这是一项基于调查的定量研究，在 88 名年龄在 18-46 岁（M = 33.5；SD = 8.02）的母亲中进行，她们的孩子患有 ASD。她们是从利雅得和中东部-南部地区的九个日托中心抽取的样本。
研究结果显示，感知到的社会支持、韧性和 PTG 之间呈显著正相关，并且表明韧性-能力是 PTG-个人力量、对生活的欣赏、精神变化新的可能性和总 PTG 的唯一显著预测因素，而积极接受变化是 PTG-与他人相关的显著预测因素。此外，朋友和重要他人的社会支持是 PTG-总得分的显著预测因素。
我们发现，对于沙特阿拉伯 ASD 儿童的母亲来说，预测创伤后成长的最大因素是个人能力的概念和来自朋友的社会支持。建议进行干预以降低创伤风险。
