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Maternal Perceptions on Happiness for Mothers of Children with Disabilities

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2013, 14(2), pp.199-223
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Park Jae Kook 1 CHUNG,KAI-SOOK 1 Seo bo soon 1 Kim, Eunra 2

1부산대학교
2부산대학교 특수교육

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate how mothers of children with disabilities perceive their own happiness level, to offer information enhancing the quality of life of mothers and their children with disabilities, and to explore ways to support them. To this ends, mothers of children with disabilities were required to complete the questionnaire consisting of 3 domains; existence, relatedness and growth. Then data were used to examine the perception of happiness and to compare the happiness level according to mothers’ personal background. Results were as follows. First, mothers’ perception of happiness was more or less positive and, in particular, showed the highest level in relatedness domain. Also mothers perceived their present happiness level lower than the importance level of happiness. Second, there were statistically significant differences in the following variables: mother’s level of education, employment status and classification of their children’s disabilities.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.