الادوار الوسيطة لشدة سمات التوحد وكفاءة و يقظة الوالدين في الكـرْب النفسي للأبـوّة المتعلـق بالتوحـد

The Mediating Roles of Autistic Traits Severity, Parental Competence, and Parents Mindfulness in Autism Parenting Stress

Caring for a child with autism spectrum disorder may have negative effects on a parent’s health and happiness. Parents, both mothers and fathers, experience heightened levels of stress within this dynamic. A predictive correlational design study were done to investigate the mediating role of autistic traits severity, Parental Competence and Parenting Mindfulness in Autism Parenting Stress. Holy Karbala City’s Al Sibteen Academy for Autism and Developmental Disorders was the site of the study. A simole random sample of 226 parents of children with autism, ages 2-12 years, participated in the research. Subjects’ ages, educational levels, and income levels were collected using a standardized questionnaire with the following tools: the autism parenting stress index, the mindfulness in parenting questionnaire, a parental competence and the autism spectrum quotient. Information was gathered from 20th November 2022 to 25th February 2023 by self-report questinnire.
The data was analyzed with the help of SPSS (Version 26), a statistical program for social science research on Windows. The study results revealed that parents of children with autism spectrum disorder tends to be severe stressed were 62.8% more than half of parents are somewhat mindful in managing the autism spectrum their children have (n = 122; 54.0%), autistic traits severity of children were severe 54% and most of parent’s competence (78.3%) for role of parenting. The Parenting Mindfulness and Parental Competence can predict negatively parental stress at (p-value = -.024; -.092) perceptively.
Also, Socioeconomic status and autistic traits severity predict autism parenting stress positively (p-value =. 001; 058) perceptively, parents with low socioeconomic status have high level of stress.
More research needed for mindfulness interventional program because descriptive assessment without engagement is less effect on stress. Furthermore, other demographic variables not included in study need to added.