Journal
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
Volume 266, Issue -, Pages 168-174Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.05.057
Keywords
Autism spectrum disorder; Parental quality of life; Social impairment; Sobel test; Mediation analysis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81601197, 81501637]
- Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program) [2012CB517901, 2010CB529601]
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This study evaluated the life quality of Chinese parents of preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their association with child social impairment and childcare burden. The participants included 406 families of children with ASD and 513 families with typically developing (TD) children. The findings indicated that parents in the ASD group had a lower quality of life than parents in the TD group, whereas only mother of children with ASD experienced a greater childcare burden than mother with TD children. Lower parental quality of life were associated with higher social impairment of children. To further clarify the correlativity of child social impairment, parental quality of life and childcare burden, the mediation analyses were conducted. The results showed that childcare burden mediated the influence of child social impairment on maternal quality of life, while it has no mediating effect on fathers. It implies that social impairment of children affects parental quality of life in different ways.
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