مقايسه باورهاي غير منطقي مادران داراي فرزند معلول ذهني شديد يا عميق با مادران داراي فرزند عادي

Comparison ofIrrational Believes between Mothers ofSevere or Profound Mentally Handicapped Children with Healthy Children Mothers

Objective: The purpose of present research was the comparison of moth er s irrational believes with severe or pro found mentally handicapp ed child and mothers with normal child from 6 to 14 year s old in Tehran ci ty. Materials & Methods: Th is study was an analyti cal , cross sectional and comparative (case - control) research. From mothers with severe or profound mentally handicapped child who had refer ed to Tehran wel far e se rvices centers, 80 mothers we re se lec ted by regul ar rand omi zed sampling from two rehabilitation centers and 80 mothers with normal child wer e se lec ted for peering with the group of testimonial from schools areas of east , west, south, north and ce nter of Tehran, through mu Hi - stage clu ster sampling in for variables of: age of moth er s. educational level s, the location of living and the number of childre n. Th ey answ ered. to qu estionnaire of irrational bel ieves ofj ons (lBT). Anal ysi s of dat a was done by de scripti ve and infringing s ta tis tics methods (Independent T test, U Mann Whitney, Chi-square and fisher ). Results: Th e findin gs showed that : there are significantly differen ces in total irrat ional belie ves and irration al beli eve s o f blam e proneness, fru strati on reacti ve, anxiou s over co nc e rn , problem avoidin g and dependency, pe rfectionism betw een two groups of mothers (P<0105).There was no significant di fference in irr ation al believes between mothers who had menta) handi cap dau ghter and mothers who had mental handi cap so n (P=O/3 [4 ). There was no significa ntly di fferen ce between two groups o f moth er s in four believes of demand for appro val (P=01737), high-sel f ex pectation (P=OIl 26), emotional irresponsibility (P=01727), helplessness for change (p=O/283). Conclusion: Irrational beli eves and many its sub sc ales . In mothers of sev ere or profound mental handicap children were more than mother s with normal child. But beli e ves of demand for approval , high self expectation , emotion al irresp on sibility, helple ssness for chang e in mothers with handicap child was not more than mother s with normal child. Also sexuality of handicap child doesnʹt effect in mothe s irrational believes.