Parent-teacher interactions, family stress, well-being, and parental depression as contributing factors to parental involvement mechanisms in education of children with autism

Mirjana Đorđević; Nenad Glumbić; Haris Memisevic; Branislav Brojčin; Ana Krstov

doi:10.1080/20473869.2021.1896962

Parent-teacher interactions, family stress, well-being, and parental depression as contributing factors to parental involvement mechanisms in education of children with autism

Int J Dev Disabil. 2021 Mar 9;68(6):838-849. doi: 10.1080/20473869.2021.1896962. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Mirjana Đorđević¹, Nenad Glumbić¹, Haris Memisevic², Branislav Brojčin¹, Ana Krstov¹

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
² Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Abstract

Parental involvement (PI) in education contributes to numerous positive outcomes in children, including educational outcomes and social competence. The goal of the present study was to examine differences in PI mechanisms between parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and parents of typically developing (TD) children. An additional goal was to examine factors affecting PI mechanisms in education in parents of children with ASD. The sample for this study consisted of 50 parents of children with ASD and 50 parents of TD children. The results of this study indicate that parents of children with ASD had lower levels of PI mechanisms in education than parents of TD children. The strongest predictors of PI mechanisms in education in parents of children with ASD were subjective well-being and child's emotional reactivity. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

Keywords: children with autism spectrum disorder; educational process; parental involvement; typically developing children.

Grants and funding

This paper is a result of the project ‘Social Participation of People with Intellectual Disability’, which was financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (No. 179017).