Stress factors among parents of children with mental retardation

Pages: 51-52
A.C. Vashishtha (Department of Psychology Meerut College, Meerut, U.P.)
Sunita Rani (Department of Psychology, Kanya Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Haridwar)

The Purpose of the Present investigation was to study the stress factors among parents of children with mental Retardation. To measure the level of stress in different stressful situation’s 30 Item Stress Factor Scale (Based on Olley, Brieger, & Otley, 1997) was administered to 300 parents of whom 150 were parents of children with mental retardation and 150 were parents of nondisabled children.