THE ROLE OF FATHER’S SELF COMPASSION TO REDUCE PARENTING STRESS ON AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER CHILDREN

Erna Risnawati, Yuni Permatasari, Siti Sa’diah; Erna Risnawati

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Journal Title: THE ROLE OF FATHER’S SELF COMPASSION TO REDUCE PARENTING STRESS ON AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER CHILDREN
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Abstract: In the process of parenting a child with ASD, mothers always experience stress in the parenting process, but from the results of research and interviews that the father also has the same parenting stress with the mother. Parenting stress due to having a child with ASD can be reduced using coping stress method. Coping source from within someone which is related to their ability in managing the most difficult condition, which can be explained by self–compassion. Purpose of the present study was determining whether there was any relation between Self-Compassion and parenting stress of father with a child with ASD. The research is quantitative approach. This research used Parenting stress by Abidin (1990) and self-compassion Scale by Neff (2003). 105 respondents father with child with ASD from special schools ASD and place therapy ASD as a sample of the population of Bekasi-Indonesia, sampling using purposive sampling techniques. Correlation test results using Pearson correlation show that r = -0.224 (p < 0.05) showed that there was a negative relation between self-compassion and Parenting Stress. From this research, parent should increasing self compassion to reduce parenting stress of father with a child with ASD.
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