Husband’s Social Support, Emotional Competence and Compassionate Love in Mother of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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10.2991/assehr.k.210423.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Husband’s social support, Emotional competence, Compassionate love, Mother, Autism

Abstract

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience greater levels of stress, anxiety, and depression than parents of children with other developmental disorders. Mothers experience stress in caring, while loving care is needed, which in this study defined as compassionate love, to optimize the development of children with ASD. This study intends to observe family environmental factors and affection factors that affect compassionate love. The purpose of this study is to find the correlation between husband’s social support, emotional competence, and compassionate love of the mother of children with ASD. This research used structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis method supported by Lisrel program. Subjects consisted of 205 mothers of children with ASD, from Semarang, Yogyakarta and Solo, Indonesia. Data collection used a questionnaire link form distributed online and scale distribution manually. The study used three measuring instruments, namely the Provision of Social Relationship scale for husband’s social support, the Emotional Competence scale, and the Compassionate Love scale. The hypothesis of this study is that emotional competence mediates the relationship between husband’s social support and compassionate love of the mother of the children with ASD. The results of model test of the effect of husband’s social support, emotional competence on compassionate love matched the research data (classified as good fit). Husband’s social support has a significant effect on compassionate love, through emotional competence. These results prove that emotional competence is an mediating variable. Limitations, suggestions, and research implications are discussed further.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dinie Ratri Desiningrum
AU  - Dewi Retno Suminar
AU  - Endang Retno Surjaningrum
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/24
TI  - Husband’s Social Support, Emotional Competence and Compassionate Love in Mother of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Psychological Studies (ICPSYCHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 272
EP  - 280
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210423.039
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210423.039
ID  - Desiningrum2021
ER  -