Relationship Between Husband Social Support and the Resilience of Mother of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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10.2991/assehr.k.210423.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mothers With Autism Spectrum Disorder Child, Resilience, Spouse Social Support

Abstract

Mothers with ASD children face daily adversity that translates into a high level of stress due to the symptoms the child has. Mothers must overcome all the challenges and adversity by having resilience. Resilience held by mothers is formed from external factors, namely social support from their spouse. This research conducted to find out relationship between social support from spouses and resilience by mothers with ASD children. Instrument used was a social provisions scale consisting of 44 items (α = 0.755) and resillience quotient consisting of 56 items (α = 0.779). Using purposive sampling with a total of 30 participants who brought their children to therapy at clinic in the city of Bandung. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between social support of the husband and the resilience of the mother and child ASD (r = 0.663; p = 0.000). In addition, this study also found two interesting things from the correlation between dimensions of social support from husbands with resilience.

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© 2021, 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  - Sarah Aurelia Saragih
AU  - Marisa Fransiska Moeliono
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/24
TI  - Relationship Between Husband Social Support and the Resilience of Mother of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Psychological Studies (ICPSYCHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 286
EP  - 289
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210423.041
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210423.041
ID  - Saragih2021
ER  -