IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/tec/journl/v3y2020i1p141-150.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Anxiety and depression in parents of disabled children

Author

Listed:
  • Salceanu Claudia

    (Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania)

  • Sandu Mihaela Luminita

    (Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania)

Abstract

Having a disabled child can add new challenges for parents and can affect, in different ways, the entire family and its way of life. Two of the most frequent consequences of having to take care of a disabled child are anxiety and depression. A sample of 30 adults (15 parents with disabled children and 15 parents with normal children) has been assessed with Beck Depression Inventory and with Cattell's Anxiety Questionnaire. The main objectives of the study aim to identify if there are significant differences between the two categories of parents regarding anxiety and depression, and if there is a significant statistical correlation between the two personality traits. The results show higher anxiety and depression levels for parents of disabled children, and a significant correlation between the two traits. The practical implications of the study are discussed in the end.

Suggested Citation

  • Salceanu Claudia & Sandu Mihaela Luminita, 2020. "Anxiety and depression in parents of disabled children," Technium Social Sciences Journal, Technium Science, vol. 3(1), pages 141-150, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:tec:journl:v:3:y:2020:i:1:p:141-150
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://techniumscience.com/index.php/socialsciences/article/view/92/62
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://techniumscience.com/index.php/socialsciences/article/view/92
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Anxiety; depression; parents; disabled children;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tec:journl:v:3:y:2020:i:1:p:141-150. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tasente Tanase (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.