Department of Secondary Special Education, Jeonju University, Jeonju 55069, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 2;18(17):9285. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179285.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the gross motor function of children with cerebral palsy and parenting stress, sense of control, and depression in their mothers. Data were collected from 247 children with cerebral palsy and their mothers. To verify the relationship among variables, path analysis was performed. The control variables included the sex and age of the children. The proposed model showed good fit indices. Gross motor function had an indirect effect on parenting stress and depression and a direct effect on parenting stress and self-control (as parenting sense of control). Parenting stress had an indirect effect on depression and a direct effect on self-control and depression. This result suggests the importance of improving the gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy and self-control in the mothers, as well as decreasing parenting stress to reduce the level of the mothers' depression. Considering the mediating effect of self-control on depression, programs designed to enhance self-control could be effective in decreasing depression in mothers of children with cerebral palsy.
本研究旨在探讨脑瘫儿童的粗大运动功能与母亲育儿压力、控制感和抑郁之间的关系。数据来自 247 名脑瘫儿童及其母亲。为了验证变量之间的关系，进行了路径分析。控制变量包括儿童的性别和年龄。所提出的模型显示出良好的拟合指数。粗大运动功能对育儿压力和抑郁有间接影响，对育儿压力和自我控制（即育儿感控制）有直接影响。育儿压力对抑郁有间接影响，对自我控制和抑郁有直接影响。这一结果表明，提高脑瘫儿童的粗大运动功能和母亲的自我控制能力，以及降低育儿压力以降低母亲抑郁水平非常重要。考虑到自我控制对抑郁的中介作用，旨在增强自我控制的计划可能对降低脑瘫儿童母亲的抑郁水平有效。
