Olha Ziborova. Peculiarities of Socio-Psychological Adaptation of Mothers who have Children with Mental and Physical Developmental Disorders.
(2016) Science and education, 9, 64-69. Odessa.
Olha Ziborova,
post-graduate student, Department of Special Pedagogy and Psychology,
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky,
4, Fontanska Doroha Str., Odesa, Ukraine
PECULIARITIES OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF MOTHERS WHO HAVE CHILDREN WITH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
SUMMARY:
The article deals with the results of the theoretical and empirical research of coping-strategies of mothers who have different styles of maternal attitude towards their children with special needs. Individual peculiarities of experiencing a stressful situation by a mother are transformed into a certain style of her maternal attitude, which determines the for-mation of the predominant coping-strategy of the mother of an abnormal child. The strategies of solving problems and searching for social support (which contribute to the child’s socialization) are peculiar to the mothers with an adequate maternal attitude (MA) style. Women with an inadequate MA style (anxious, ambivalent and emotionally-withdrawn) usually choose the strategy of avoiding problems, which is manifested in helplessness, aggressiveness and great distance in their relations withchildren. In order to master active coping-strategies, it is necessary to use the technologies of recreational psychology – recreational institutions, designing situations in a group. The experiment involved 140 mothers of abnormal children, who were divided into 4 groups, depending on their MA style. The following methods were used: technique “Coping-strategies indicator” by D. Amirchan, the technique of affiliation motives by A. Mekhrabin, “The questionnaire of maternal attitude style towards a child with special needs” by T. Dehtiarenko, O. Ziborova. After staying at a summer recreational camp, the indices of active coping-strategies have increased in the groups of mothers with anxious and ambivalent styles of attitude, as they needed social and emotional support more than others. The carried out diagnostics has shown the statistically significant decrease of maternal attitude inadequacy in all observed groups. The lack of necessary information, the absence of the access to the social experience of overcoming the same situations, and poor support of the surrounding people complicate the formation of active coping-strategies in the behaviour of abnormal children’s mothers. The research results confirm the efficiency of the capacity of recreation psychology technologies in mastering active coping-strategies by women who have children with special needs.
KEYWORDS:
style of maternal attitude, stressful situation of child’s abnormality, coping strategies, socio-psychological adaptation.
FULL TEXT:
REFERENCES:
1. Dehtiarenko, T.V. & Ziborova, O.O. (2013). Psykholohichni osoblyvosti msterynskoho stavlennia u zhinok, yaki vekhovuiut dytynu z vadkhylenniamy u psykhofizychnomu rozvytku [Psychological characteristics of maternal attitude of women bringing up a child with psychophysical disabilities]. Nauka i osvita. Psykholohiia – Science and education. Psychology, 7/CXVII, 146-149 [in Ukrainian].
2. Ziborova, O.O. (2015). Koping-strategii materi v stresogenoi situacii porushenya psykhofozochnogo rozvitku u dytyny [Coping strategies in stressful situations mother's mental and physical abuse of a child]. Materialy mijnarodnoii naukovo-praktychnoi konferencii «Suchasna systema osvity i vyhovanya. Dosvid mynulogog –poglyadu maibutne» – Proceedings of the international scientific and practical conference «Modern system of education and training: the experience of the past - looking into the future»], (pp. 128-132). Kyiv [in Ukrainian].
3. Subbotina, L. Yu. (2013). Psykhologicheskaya zashita i stress [Psychological protection and stress]. Kharkiv: Humanitarnyi tsentr [in Russian].
4. Filippova, G. G. (2002). Psykhologia materinstva [Psychology of motherhood]. Moscow: Institut psyhoterapii [in Ukrainian].
5. Dehtiarenko, T. V. & Ziborova. O. O. (2014). A.s. «Oprosnik opredeleniia asobennostei (stilia) materinskogo otnosheniia k rebionku, imeiushchemu otkloneniia v psykhofizicheskom razvitii (OMO)»-«Questionnaire on determining features (style) of mother’s attitude to a child having deviations of psychophysical development (OMO)», the certificate number 53965, registered by the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine from 03.05.2014 [in Russian].
