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Park, So-Youn; Glidden, Laraine M.; Shin, Jin Y. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Retardation, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries
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Mak, Winnie W. S.; Cheung, Rebecca Y. M. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: Affiliate stigma refers to the extent of self-stigmatization among associates of the targeted minorities. Given previous studies on caregiver stigma were mostly qualitative in nature, a conceptually based, unified, quantitative instrument to measure affiliate stigma is still lacking. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and ten…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Mental Disorders, Caregivers, Predictive Validity
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Winnie W. S. Mak; Anna H. Y. Ho; Rita W. Law – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: The moderating and mediating relationships among sense of coherence, parental attitudes and parenting stress for caregiving parents of children with autism were tested. Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifty-seven mothers of children with autism recruited from representative community service centres in Hong Kong completed the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries