摘要：The study was entitled with the psychological stress and coping strategies of care givers of children with mental retardation. The objectives were, to understand the socio- demographic profile of the respondents, to find out the level of stress among the care givers of mentally retarded children, to investigate the coping strategies adopted by the respondents, to study the affirmative relationship of the care givers with their children, and to identify the care giving involvement initiated by the respondents to bring up their mentally retarded child. The researcher adopted lottery method for sampling, and sizes of the respondents were 65. The respondents were the care givers of children with mental retardation were studying innShanthi Nilayam school for mentally retarded in Kayakumari district. The data was collected on the basis of self prepared interview schedule. Distribution of level of coping strategies of care givers, the care givers stress, coping, affirmative relationship and care giving involvement is analyzed in this study.
关键词：Stress; Coping; Affirmative; Retardation and Care giver
