The Couple’s Congruence of Child’s Illness Perception and the Quality of Marital Relationship

Diana Sînziana Duca (), Maria Nicoleta Turliuc () and Daniela MUNTELE Hendreș ()
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Diana Sînziana Duca: Assistant Professor, PhD, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Suceava, Romania
Maria Nicoleta Turliuc: University Professor, PhD, Department of Psychology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Daniela MUNTELE Hendreș: Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Psychology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

Chapter 17 in Studies and Current Trends in Science of Education, 2017, vol. 2, pp 151-167 from Editura Lumen

Abstract: The spouses’ congruence regarding perceptions about the disease was usually analyzed in the context of intimate partner physical illness and the results showed that couple’s congruence of disease perception positively correlated with patients’ quality of life, adjustment to illness, and relationship satisfaction. In the same time, some studies consider that a strong perception on the child's illness causes psychological distress. The study aims to test whether couple’ congruence regarding child's illness perception has an influence on the quality of marital relationship, operationalized by couple satisfaction, parental stress, dyadic coping and resilience family. This research involved 106 parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (53 of maried couples). The results show a significant effect of couple’ congruence of child's illness perceptions on marital satisfaction F (2.103) = 3.61, p = .03, parental stress F (2.103) = 17.89, p

Keywords: couple’s congruence; child’s illness perception; marital relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910129-14-2
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DOI: 10.18662/lumproc.icsed2017.17

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