Melek Gözde LUS, Gülin YAZKAN, Habib ERENSOY

The role of stressful coping styles in depression and anxiety levels on parents of children with autism spectrum disorder

Aim: The purpose of this research is the determination of depression and anxiety levels and their impact on the style of coping withstress of parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).Material and Methods: Research was conducted with parents of 73 children with ASD, who come to the rehabilitation center.Personal Information Form, Stress Coping Styles Scale, Beck Depression Inventory and State and Trait Anxiety Scale were used tothe relational screening method.Results: It was found that the mean state and trait anxiety scores of parents was high and parents chose one of the self-confidenceconfidence approach to cope with stress.The self-confident approach alone reduced the despair negatively by -49.9%, but thesubmissive approach did not affect variables.Conclusion: It was found that the despair of the family members decreased when they preferred the self-confident coping approach.

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