아동과 어머니의 특성에 따른 장애아동의 가족영향력

Disabled Children's Family Impact Realted to Mother's & Child's Characteristics

The purposes of this study "8S to investigate the differences of disabled children's family impact according to mother's and child's characteristics. Subjects of this study consisted of 300 mothers with disabled children attended the special elementary school in Cheongju city. The valid responses were 183, which were from 214 total questionnaire responses. Data were analyzed by SPSSWIN with the method of frequency, percentage, t-test, ANOVA, and Duncan test. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The higher education a mother experiences, she shows the less participation's in social activity and the more isolations in social relationship. 2. The factor of the number of children shows a difference in family impact. The family with only a disabled child uses more expenses in education and medical care then the family with more than one child, thus experiencing more economic difficulties. And the more children a mother has, the more negatively she recognizes the support from her spouse. 3. The more difficulties in raising her disabled child a mother feels, she feels the more social activity restrictions and the less supportiveness by her spouse, thus the more negatively she recognizes the relationship with her spouse. 4. The more severe disability a multiply handicapped children has, the more economic difficulties and social activity restrictions his mother experiences. 5. Children's sex shows a difference in social activity restrictions and children's age in economic difficulties.