Original scientific paper

PARTNERSHIP RELATIONS AND THE CHILD WITH DEVELOPMENTAL HANDICAPS

Zdravka Leutar
Tanja Starčić

Abstract

The paper deals with the partnership relations of the parents of children with mental retardation, it questions their basic characteristics and compares them to the partnership relations of other parents. The paper presents the results of the conducted research in which 78 participants took part, out of which 38 were parents of the children with mental retardation and 40 were parents of the children without mental retardation. Intimacy, agreement, openness, attachment and commitment to the relationship were studied in the partnership relations, and the data were analysed with regard to socio-demographic characteristics: gender, age, level of education, material circumstances of the family and the age of the children.
The results of the research have shown that there are no statistically important differences in the partnership relations between the parents of the children with mental retardation and other parents, however, the research has shown that partnership relations within the group of the parents of the children with mental retardation significantly differ statistically with regard to the level of the child's disability. It has also shown that socio-demographic characteristics influence the partnership relations of the parents of the children with mental retardation, while this is not the case in the relations of other parents.
It can generally be said that the child with developmental handicaps brings about changes in the family, but it has not been sufficiently researched how this influences on the partnership relations of his parents.

Keywords

partnership relations; parents; children; mental retardation

Hrčak ID:

11493

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/11493

Publication date:

1.4.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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