Comparison of perceived family structure of mothers with a disabled boy and mothers with a boy without disabilities upon circumplex model in Tehran in 1390
Advances in Nursing & Midwifery,
Vol. 25 No. 88 (2016),
10 April 2016
,
Page 1-8
Abstract
Background and aim
Family structure indicates the way in which the related components of the family are organized as a
whole family. Family structure is important to the outcomes of family and has main effect on family
function and relationships. Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems (Olson) evaluates
family structures and divided them to three category balanced, middle range and unbalanced
families. The aim of this study was to compare the perceived family structure of mothers with a
disable boy and mothers with a boy without disabilities upon circumplex model in Tehran in 1390.
Materials and methods
The present study is a comparative descriptive study. Data were gathered from 100 mothers who
had a boy with disability and 100 mothers who had a boy without disability .The participants were
included in the study from exceptional and normal elementary governmental schools in Tehran by
multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected by a questionnaire, which consist of two
parts, demographics variables and Family Adaptability Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES-III)
(Olson 1986) . This questionnaire has acceptable validity and reliability. This scale position the
families in three type of family structures balanced, middle range and unbalanced. Data were
analyzed by SPSS 16 and descriptive and analytics methods such as t- test and chi square.
Findings
Most of the perceived family structured in two groups were balanced and middle-range. Mothers
with disable boy perceived their family structures balance and middle range less than and perceived
their family structure unbalance more than the other group. Perceived family structure in two
groups were not statistical significant (p>0/05).
Conclusion
There weren’t relationship between presences of disable child or form of disability with mother's
perceived family structure, and mothers in two groups perceive their family structure similar to each
other’s. So conclusion is that family structure isn’t affected by disability of the child.
Keywords
Circumplex Model of Marital and Family System, Perceived family structure, mothers, disable boy,
boy without disabilities
- Circumplex Model of Marital and Family System
- Perceived family structure
- mothers
- disable boy
- boy without disabilities
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Comparison of perceived family structure of mothers with a disabled boy and mothers with a
boy without disabilities upon circumplex model in Tehran in 1390
Ghasemi, S.1. Hosseini, M.2* (PhD). AlaviMajd, H.3 (PhD); Manochehri, H.4 (PhD); Norozi, Z.5 (MS student)
Alumnus (MSC ) school of Nursing and Midwifery,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
,Tehran, Iran. PhD student, Dept. of Nursing; Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Assistant professor, Dept. of Community Health Nursing; school of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid
Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics, school of Paramedical sciences , Shahid Beheshti University of
Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Basic Sciences, school of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti
University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Student of Nursing; Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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