Effect of Parental Attitude, Perceived Social Support and Socio Economic Status on Adjustment of their Children with Mental Retardation

Parents of children with mental retardation experiences high level of emotional, financial and physical stress that may adversely affect the adjustment of their children. The main aim of the present investigation was to study the effect of parental attitude, perceived social support and Socio Economic Status on adjustment of their children with mental retardation. The sample consists of 300 parents (either mother or father) and their MR children. Parental age group is 25-55 yrs. The tools used for the measurement of variables are an adjustment inventory, scale of parental attitude towards mental retardates, scale of perceived social support and a personal data sheet. The data were analyzed using ANOVA and Mean. The result revealed that there is a significant main effect of parental attitude and social support on adjustment among MR children. Whereas the third independent variable socio- economic status has not been found a significant contributor of adjustment. The interaction among these three variables yielded non-significant 'F' value.