정신지체아와 일반아 부모의 스트레스와 가족 기능의 수준

The Level of Stress, Family Function Between the Parents of Normal and Mentally Retarded Students

The purposes of this study are to compare family function (family cohesion and family adaptability) between the families of normal and mental retarded students, and mainly to find out the correlation between parents stress and family function in order to enlarge understanding about mentally retarded students and so as to consider various environmental factors. The specific purposes of this study are (a) to discover family cohesion and family adaptability between the parent who have mentally retarded students and don t have mentally retarded students; (b) to find out the level of family cohesion and family adaptability; and (c) to figure out the correlation between parents who have mentally retarded students and don t have mentally retarded students among parents stress, family cohesion and family adaptability. After studying the results and through discussing, I got the following results. First, in the degree of parents stress, the parent who have mentally retarded students indicated higher scores than those of the parents who don t have mentally retarded students. Second, in the family cohesion, the families who have mentally retarded students indicated lower scores than those of the families who have no mentally retarded students. However, in the family adaptability, there is no significant difference between the two groups.