The Relationship Between Parental Acceptance and Socio-Emotional Skills in Elementary School Students With a Physical Disability

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10.2991/assehr.k.201125.042How to use a DOI?

Keywords

elementary school student, parental acceptance, physical disability, socio-emotional competence

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between parental acceptance and aspects of the socio-emotional skills of children with a physical disability (visual, hearing, speech, and bodily impairments). Parental acceptance is defined along a continuum of acceptance to rejection toward their children, while socio-emotional skills are characterized by the ability to manage emotions, behave effectively, survive to achieve desired goals, appreciate the process of learning, and effectively interact and work together with others. This study evaluated 120 parents of elementary education-level students with a physical disability. This correlational study used the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire to measure parental acceptance and the Elementary Student’s Social and Emotional Skill Survey to measure the socio-emotional skills of children with a physical disability. The results showed a positive and significant relationship between parental acceptance and the social competence dimension of socio-emotional skills in children with a physical disability. There were no significant associations between parental acceptance and persistence and self-control in children with a physical disability. This study suggests that the more acceptance parents have regarding their children separate from the disability the children possess, the better those children can read social cues and effectively participate in two-way interactions with others. Furthermore, accepting parents tend to involve their child in educational institutions, which further shapes children into more competent beings in terms of socio-emotional skills.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nadya Nabila Haswar
AU  - Frieda Maryam Mangunsong Siahaan
AU  - Shahnaz Safitri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/27
TI  - The Relationship Between Parental Acceptance and Socio-Emotional Skills in Elementary School Students With a Physical Disability
BT  - Joint proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2019) and the 4th Universitas Indonesia Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 497
EP  - 506
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201125.042
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201125.042
ID  - Haswar2020
ER  -