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Structural and Functional Aspects of Social Support for Mothers of Children with and without Cognitive Delays in Vietnam
Author(s) -
Park SoYoun,
Glidden Laraine M.,
Shin Jin Y.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2009.00550.x
Subject(s) - social support , psychology , vietnamese , developmental psychology , cognition , structural equation modeling , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
Background This study reports development of a social support scale appropriate to the Vietnamese culture and the impact of social support on mothers of children with cognitive delays by using the developing scale. Method Interview surveys were conducted with 225 mothers of children with and without cognitive delays in Vietnam. The structural and functional social supports were examined in relation to two aspects of stress, parental competence and role restriction. Demographic variables were incorporated in examining the relationships between social support and stress. Results The social support scale had adequate reliability and structural and functional aspects comparable to those found in Western societies. Two domains in functional support, material and family‐directed support, alleviated stress when controlling for child disability status and sociodemographic variables. Conclusions The results showed that informal and functional social support have some effect on maternal stress. However, when other variables were examined in combination, child disability was the strongest predictor of maternal stress.