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The Factors Predicting Stress, Anxiety and Depression in the Parents of Children with Autism
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The factors predicting stress, anxiety and depression in the parents of children with autism remain poorly understood. In this study, a cohort of 250 mothers and 229 fathers of one or more children with autism completed a questionnaire assessing reported parental mental health problems, locus of control, social support, perceived parent-child attachment, as well as autism symptom severity and perceived externalizing behaviours in the child with autism. Variables assessing parental cognitions and socioeconomic support were found to be more significant predictors of parental mental health problems than child-centric variables. A path model, describing the relationship between the dependent and independent variables, was found to be a good fit with the observed data for both mothers and fathers.
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“There is evidence in the literature that parents of children with autism report more mental health problems than parents of children with neurotypical development (Falk et al., 2014).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Falk, N. H., Norris, K., & Quinn, M. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Falk, Nicholas Henry
- ORCID
- Norris, Kimberley
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2014-07-15
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 3185-3203
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- OpenAlex
- W2117175178
- Cited by
- 369
- References
- 96
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 37 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 20.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UTAS Research Repository (acceptedVersion)
- eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- University of Tasmania
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Keywords
- parental stress, parental anxiety, parental depression, autism spectrum disorder, parents of autistic children, locus of control, social support, parent-child attachment, autism severity, externalizing problems, parental mental health, parents, socioeconomic support
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child, Preschool, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Parents, Predictive Value of Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Stress, Psychological, Young Adult
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