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Spiritual Intelligence and Emotional Competence in Parents Having Children with Special Needs: A Comparative Study


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1 Department of Clinical Psychology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
     

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Parents as primary caregivers usually play a very important role in the lives of their children. Although taking care of their children as caregivers is an unexpected “career” with twists and turns. Caring for a child with a disability can impose parents with multiple strains usually due to health problems, financial demands , time demands, and a snag of social participation, such as a working career. Due to the difficult situations faced by the parents having kids with disability can lead to mental health issues in parents. To measure the spiritual intelligence and emotional competence in the parents having children with special needs and parents having children without special needs. To measure the spiritual intelligence and emotional competence in the parents having children with special needs and parents having children without special needs. Parents having children with special needs, (N= 50) and Parents having children without special needs, (N = 50) .Scales used: Spiritual Intelligence scale (Mishra) and Emotional Competence Scale (Bharadwaj) T test was used to measure the scores. With the awareness of the importance of mental health issues, the health care providers will pay more attention toward the mental health of the parents, especially in the cases of having poor social support, and low income family. Further researches should be done in order to examine the child's disease and disability, the use of medical service, and quality and amount of social support, nationwide to rectify the system for providing support services to both children with disabilities and their Cgs.

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Parents, Mental Health, Role in Development, Special Children, Emotional Competence, Spiritual Intelligence.
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Authors

Sanjana Purdhani
Department of Clinical Psychology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Tamanna Saxena
Department of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract


Parents as primary caregivers usually play a very important role in the lives of their children. Although taking care of their children as caregivers is an unexpected “career” with twists and turns. Caring for a child with a disability can impose parents with multiple strains usually due to health problems, financial demands , time demands, and a snag of social participation, such as a working career. Due to the difficult situations faced by the parents having kids with disability can lead to mental health issues in parents. To measure the spiritual intelligence and emotional competence in the parents having children with special needs and parents having children without special needs. To measure the spiritual intelligence and emotional competence in the parents having children with special needs and parents having children without special needs. Parents having children with special needs, (N= 50) and Parents having children without special needs, (N = 50) .Scales used: Spiritual Intelligence scale (Mishra) and Emotional Competence Scale (Bharadwaj) T test was used to measure the scores. With the awareness of the importance of mental health issues, the health care providers will pay more attention toward the mental health of the parents, especially in the cases of having poor social support, and low income family. Further researches should be done in order to examine the child's disease and disability, the use of medical service, and quality and amount of social support, nationwide to rectify the system for providing support services to both children with disabilities and their Cgs.

Keywords


Parents, Mental Health, Role in Development, Special Children, Emotional Competence, Spiritual Intelligence.

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