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Raising young children on the autism spectrum
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Raising young children on the autism spectrum
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Parental stress and perceived social support
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Autism, parental stress, and social support
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Rutstein
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Sarah Yarock
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1988-
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Sarah Rutstein
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author
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Fiske Massey
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Kate
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Kate Fiske Massey
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Kettler
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Ryan
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Ryan Kettler
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co-chair
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
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theses
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2014
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2014-10
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2014
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eng
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Raising a child with autism generates a variety of issues for the family involved. It is a disorder that is particularly stressful for the family as a whole, and much research has shown elevated levels of stress in parents raising a child with autism (Dabrowska & Pisula, 2011; Lee, 2009). Past research has shown that social support (both formal and informal) has been able to reduce levels of parental stress. The purpose of the current research was to explore the relationship between parental stress and perceived social support while raising a young child with autism. The present study hypothesized that perceived social support would be negatively correlated with levels of parental stress of mothers raising a young child with autism. Participants were 25 mothers who had a child 10 years old or younger with an autism spectrum disorder. Mothers were asked to complete the Parenting Stress Index—Short Form IV (PSI-SF-IV), the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC), the Family Support Scale (FSS), and a brief demographic questionnaire. Bivariate one-tailed correlational analyses showed medium-strength negative correlations between both the Formal and Informal Support total score on the FSS and the Total Stress Index on the PSI-SF-IV. Additionally, the Informal Support total score on the FSS was associated with decreased levels of parental stress on all three indices of the PSI-SF-IV: Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interaction, Difficult Child, and Total Stress. Results indicated that the more overall social support a mother perceives herself to receive, the lower her overall parental stress.
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School Psychology
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Autistic children--Care
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Stress (Psychology)
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Parenting--Social aspects
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Autism spectrum disorders
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1 online resource (vii, 43 p. : ill.)
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Psy.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Sarah Rutstein
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T32F7KWJ
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Rutstein
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Sarah
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Yarock
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2014-04-29 17:20:05
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Sarah Rutstein
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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