Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Resilience: “Ordinary Magic,” Development of the Issues and Current Status of Research
- Support as an Existential Phenomenon and Experience of Relationships in a Phenomenological Perspective
- Personality, Resilience, and Stress as Predictors of Mental Health in Informal Partner Relationships
- Resiliency in Parents and Family System Profiles of Autistic Children Encompassing Social, Cultural, and Axiological Contexts
- Model of Working with Family in the Situation of Parental Separation: Diagnosis, Psychoeducation, Family Therapy
- Resilience, Social Functioning and Quality of Life Considerations as Found in the Narratives of High-Functioning Autistic Adults
- Coping with the Stress of Chronic Disease and the Occurrence of Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Adolescents’ Well-Being at School in the Light of Psychology of Place
- School Climate: Teachers’ Perspective. A Report from a Study on Elementary Schools Faced with Poland’s Current Education Reform
- Montessori Learning Environment Beneficial for Awakening of Self-authoring Features
- About the authors
Resiliency in Parents and Family System Profiles of Autistic Children Encompassing Social, Cultural, and Axiological Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2022
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Resilience: “Ordinary Magic,” Development of the Issues and Current Status of Research
- Support as an Existential Phenomenon and Experience of Relationships in a Phenomenological Perspective
- Personality, Resilience, and Stress as Predictors of Mental Health in Informal Partner Relationships
- Resiliency in Parents and Family System Profiles of Autistic Children Encompassing Social, Cultural, and Axiological Contexts
- Model of Working with Family in the Situation of Parental Separation: Diagnosis, Psychoeducation, Family Therapy
- Resilience, Social Functioning and Quality of Life Considerations as Found in the Narratives of High-Functioning Autistic Adults
- Coping with the Stress of Chronic Disease and the Occurrence of Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Adolescents’ Well-Being at School in the Light of Psychology of Place
- School Climate: Teachers’ Perspective. A Report from a Study on Elementary Schools Faced with Poland’s Current Education Reform
- Montessori Learning Environment Beneficial for Awakening of Self-authoring Features
- About the authors
Summary
Abstract
Family systems are currently categorized by referring to common factors of psychological functioning such as happiness, well-being, the ability to adapt quickly, self-esteem, the sense of effectiveness, and the ability to see the meaning of life. These positive indicators complement personal resiliency, which is highly correlated with various positive psychological mechanisms, in particular with the ability to adapt to difficult and unexpected events (i.e. being able to deal with a serious illness or the disability of a child, regardless of cultural factors).
For those who research the context of an autistic child's functioning and development, it is important to characterize these adaptations, which are perceived as a result of rapid changes in civilization, along with cultural and moral aspects, that take place all over the world.
This focus became the inspiration to carry out research regarding the functioning profile of a modern ASD child's family in California, USA, along with various sociocultural conditions. The research covered 105 randomly selected families connected with the Autism Tree Project Foundation in San Diego and the Silicon Valley area of San Jose, California.
A study of family functioning profiles in California and the analysis of possible differences between parents of ASD children in California, USA (n = 105) were made using the Olson (2000) Flexibility and Cohesion Evaluation Scales-IV, along with the Block and Kremen (1996) Ego Resiliency Scale which was also utilized to test personal resilience in normalized and methodologically standardized conditions.
The results obtained revealed the following information:
1. The family functioning profile in the examined group of parents of autistic children are generally positive, especially in the FACES IV field dimensions of cohesion and flexibility;
2. Parents of autistic children in California exhibit relatively good adaptation, expressed in low results in the dimensions of disengagement and enmeshment;
3. On the other hand, an unexpected low result was obtained in the area of family satisfaction, and as a result further investigation is recommended;
4. Results regarding the Ego Resiliency Scale of individual parents of ASD children in California were positive and demonstrated good adaptation.
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- Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2022