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Well‐being of mothers of children with mental retardation: An evaluation of the Double ABCX model in a cross‐cultural context
Author(s) -
Shin Jin Y.,
Crittenden Kathleen S.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1046/j.1467-839x.2003.00119.x
Subject(s) - psychology , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , path analysis (statistics) , structural equation modeling , social psychology , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
The present study was designed to compare the psychological well‐being of mothers of children with mental retardation in the USA and Korea. The Double ABCX model of stress proposed by McCubbin and Patterson (1983) was evaluated for the two national groups. Thirty‐eight American and 40 Korean mothers participated in the home‐visit interview. The path models in the present study partially supported the ABCX model, but different path models for the two national groups provided important explanations for the well‐being of mothers from the two nations. The cause of stress for the American mothers was specific to the individual variables. For Korean mothers, cultural values that carry social influence were more strongly associated with their attitudes towards the child and their experience of stress.