 Comparison of hope of maltreating parents whose children were removed from home with those whose children were kept at homeBilha Davidson-Arad, Reut Aram-Fichman, Michal Bashan-Paz, Raya Gingis and Tali Klein-Katz Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, vol. 35, issue 12, 2040-2048 Abstract: Most of the scholarship on parents who abuse or neglect their children focuses on the parents' life difficulties and personal deficits. The present study focuses on their hope, a coping resource which has been found to contribute to better parenting. Relying on their own reports, it compares the levels and predictors of basic and family hope among two groups of maltreating parents: those whose children had been removed to alternative care and those whose children were being treated at community facilities. The examined correlates were two personality features, self-esteem and covert narcissism, and two interpersonal features, perceived social support and their closeness to and the influence of their own parents. A convenience sample of 279 maltreating parents in Israel, fairly evenly divided between the two groups, completed six self-report questionnaires. The findings show similarities in the features of the two groups of parents, and both similarities and differences in the correlates of their hope. Keywords: Hope; Abuse; Neglect; Self-esteem; Narcissism; Social support (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:35:y:2013:i:12:p:2040-2048 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.09.011 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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