Psychological Well-Being Profile: The Role of Gratitude and Social Support for Parents with Children with Special Needs

Abstract

The parenting style in the family is built on the readiness of parents. Parents with children with special needs must have a good understanding of their children's condition. Children with special needs are a condition of a child who has different needs from other normal children. Of course, this special needs condition makes the child need a special parenting style from their parents. This makes parents expected to continue to have good psychological well-being in caring for children with special needs. The subjects of this research are parents who have children with special needs and attend special schools with a total of 54 people. The results of the study were analyzed using regression data analysis techniques. The analysis showed that the research hypothesis was accepted: that gratitude and social support could affect psychological well-being (F = 5.731; sig. 0.006 < 0.05). This study concludes that gratitude and social support affect 18.4% of psychological well-being, and the rest is influenced by other variables not examined.