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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhang, Jing
• Lin, Xiaofang
• Zhou, Shuangzhu
• Ye, Baojuan
• Zhang, Yu
• Xiong, Hongxing

Titel

Social support and parenting self-efficacy in parents of children with ASD: The mediating role of post-traumatic growth and the moderating role of self-esteem

Ist Teil von

• Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2024-03, Vol.43 (10), p.9025-9040

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Parenting self-efficacy of parents of children with ASD has an important impact on their parenting behavior. Previous studies have found that social factors and parents’ psychological factors are related to their parenting self-efficacy, but research on the internal mechanism of parenting self-efficacy with these factors is still limited. The present study aimed to explore the relationship among social support, post-traumatic growth, self-esteem and parenting self-efficacy of parents of children with ASD, and the mechanism behind these relationships. A total of 208 Chinese parents ( N father  = 31, N mother  = 177) of children with ASD were selected to complete a self-report questionnaire measuring social support, parenting self-efficacy, post-traumatic growth and self-esteem. The results indicated that there were significant positive correlations among social support, parenting self-efficacy, post-traumatic growth and self-esteem. Additionally, it was found that post-traumatic growth of parents of children with ASD played a partial mediating role in the relationship between social support and parenting self-efficacy, which was moderated by the level of parental self-esteem. Specifically, the mediating role of post-traumatic growth was stronger for low self-esteem participants. These findings not only contribute to a better understanding of how social support increases parenting self-efficacy, but also remind us that some psychological factors should be considered in the exploration process, such as post-traumatic growth and self-esteem of individuals.