Department of Clinical Psychology

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    Perception of child’s developmental disability and the quality of life of mothers
    (UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, 2015) Syeda Wajeeha Zehra
    The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of child's developmental disability on the mother's Quality of life. Mothers (N=150) with the children of three type of developmental disability cerebral palsy ,intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder were the participants of this research. Mixed methods research design was used. Instruments included a demographic performa, WHO-BREF questionnaire and a indigenous scale MPS (Mother's perception Scale) to measure mothers perception about child disability. This MPS was constructed for the study to see the relationship between the independent variable of mother's perception with the dependent variable of quality of their life. After factor analysis the two factors were assigned, the descriptive label of positive mother's perception and negative mother's perception, to measures the perception of mother's about the disability of their child. Product movement correlation revealed relationship between positive mother's perception with the better QOL and negative mother's perception with lower QOL. Hierarchical Linear regression indicated that mother's education is the significant predictor of QOL. Independent t-test revealed that there was no gender difference in mother's perception and their QOL. However the difference of nuclear and joint family system was found to be significant