Anger in mothers of children with special needs

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Mohsen Shookohi Yekta ¹ , Nayyereh Zamani ² , Javad Poor Karimi ³ , Akram Parand ⁴

1 - PhD University of Tehran
2 - M. A. in Psychology of Exceptional Children
3 - Ph. D Candidate Teacher Training University
4 - Ph. D Candidate in University of Tehran

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2009-06-22

Keywords: mentally retarded, anger, employment status, level of education, slow learning,

Abstract :

The level of anger in mothers of mentally retarded and slow learning children was compared based on their level of education and employment status. 100 mothers of slow learners and trainable mentally retarded children completed the Multidimensional Anger Inventory (Siegel, 1986) included anger arousal, anger eliciting situations, hostile outlook, anger-out, and anger-in subscales and a demographic information questionnaire. Results of a two-way ANOVA showed that academic educated mothers experienced lower levels of anger arousal and anger-in than nonacademic educated ones.