Having Another Child without Intellectual Disabilities: Comparing Mothers of a Single Child with Disability and Mothers of Multiple Children with and without Disability

Autor/inn/en	Kimura, Miyako; Yamazaki, Yoshihiko
Titel	Having Another Child without Intellectual Disabilities: Comparing Mothers of a Single Child with Disability and Mothers of Multiple Children with and without Disability
Quelle	In: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 23 (2019) 2, S.216-232 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kimura, Miyako)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-6295
DOI	10.1177/1744629517749129
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Comparative Analysis; Predictor Variables; Disabilities; Intellectual Disability; Mental Health; Family Size; Social Capital; Psychological Patterns; Foreign Countries; Decision Making; Barriers; Parent Child Relationship; Mother Attitudes; Children; Participant Characteristics; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Prädiktor; Handicap; Behinderung; Intellect; Disability; Disabilities; Verstand; Psychohygiene; Familiengröße; Sozialkapital; Ausland; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mutterliebe; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	To investigate how having a child without a disability is related to maternal mental health and its predictors, we compared mothers of a single child with intellectual disabilities (single-child group, n = 117) and mothers of children with and without intellectual disabilities (multiple-children group, n = 457), in Japan. Compared to the multiple-children group, the single-child group had lower hope and social capital and poorer mental health; furthermore, 42.5% of them had decided not to have another child, despite desiring one. Hope was the strongest predictor of mental health in both groups but was more positively related to mental health in the multiple-children group. The fear of the possibility of the next child having a disability and receiving inadequate support were the obstacles for mothers who had decided not to have another child. Thus, greater support and more opportunities for obtaining adequate information about the implications of having another child may be needed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01