ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2026
Parental Stress and Quality of Life in Parents of Young Children with Autism.
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- Parental Stress and Well-Being: A Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
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- Quality of life, stress and its coping strategies among the parents of children with autism spectrum disorder in Kathmandu Valley: A mixed method study.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the quality of life and stress levels of parents/caregivers of adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder in Serbia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The relationship between parental stress, resilience, and quality of life in parents of children with epidermolysis bullosa.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Supporting parents in autism care.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Factors predicting parenting stress in the autism spectrum disorder context: A network analysis approach.PloS one · 2025Article
- Examining stress and coping levels of patriarchal men with autistic children who receive special sports training in Türkiye.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2025Article
- Clinical and sociodemographic factors related to the timing of autism diagnosis in an Italian cohort of children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Associations Between Parenting Stress, Parenting Behaviours and Language Abilities in Autistic Preschoolers: A Study with Mothers and Fathers.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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Abstract
Parents of children with ASD are at risk for chronic stress due to challenging parenting. It is unknown whether stress is already present in early parenthood, similar for mothers and fathers and if this impacts quality of life (QoL). Parental stress and QoL were assessed in 56 mothers and 51 fathers of young children (aged 3 to 7) with autism. Associations between parental stress (OBVL) and QoL (WHOQoL-BREF) were examined. Parents of young children with ASD appear to have high parental stress from conflicting feelings towards their child and from difficulties with parenting. Mothers have higher stress from feeling confined in their motherly role than fathers compared to the OBVL norm population. Both mothers and fathers have a low QoL. Increased maternal conflicting feelings towards the child associated with lower psychological QoL, while high maternal feelings of role confinement associated with low physical QoL. Increased paternal conflicting feelings towards their child related to lower physical and social QoL, while fathers with more parenting difficulties reported less satisfaction with their psychological and environmental wellbeing. Thus, already at young age, parenting children with ASD is a major challenge for both mothers and fathers.
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