Role of Parental Attitude on AD/HD Children: An Exploratory Study on Mother-AD/HD Child Dyads

As Attention-Defictt/Hyperactivity Disordered children are very energetic and the symptoms of AD/HD are most often present from the age of three, and sometimes last into adult life, the burden of carrying and handling them are more readily felt by their parents. The parents were found to have more stress, less parenting satisfaction, lower self-confidence, less warmth and involvement with their children, used corporal punishment and higher levels of authoritarian parenting styles. Contradicting these finding it was also found that mothers' behavior and attitudes towards their AD/HD children, stress, and disciplinary practices themselves made children more prone to express symptoms like non-responsiveness, over-reaction, behaviour problem etc. which in turn affects the parent-child relationships. The data were collected from 52 child-mother dyads using interview and observation method and were analyzed using content analysts method. It was seen that mothers'attitude towards their AD/HD children cause an increase in the behavioural problems exhibited by them