期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：12
页码：63-77
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i12/11754
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Parents of children with learning disabilities such as Late Global Development, Down syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities experience parental stress as a result of adjusting and coping with their children’s conditions. Therefore, this study aims to analyses the level of parental stress among parents with learning difficulties and the differences in parents and children’s gender with parental stress level. A probability sample method was implemented in this study to determine the level of stress among parents of children with learning disabilities. Parental Stress Index/Short Form instrument was used in this study to determine the parental stress level. A total of 120 respondents among parents of children with learning difficulties has participated in this study. The results showed level of parental stress among parents of children with learning difficulties is 97.5 % or 117 parents out of 120 participants with children with learning difficulties falls under typical stress category, 2.5 % or only 3 parents reported to have High Stress Category and none reported to have clinically significant stress. As for the differences in gender among parents, result shows that there is no significant differences among both parent’s gender and children s gender with parental stress. Both father and mother faces almost the equal amount of stress and children s gender does not differ in parental stress.
