Relationship Among Perceived Discrimination,Social Anxiety And Perceived Social Support Of Parents Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

The parents of children with autism spectrum disorder(ASD)consider that they are discriminated against by others,often feel anxious in social life,appear social withdrawal,affect mental health,and these are not conducive to the social development of their children with ASD.In order to explore the relationship among perceived discrimination,social anxiety and perceived social support of parents of children with ASD,the following three studies were designed.In the first study,the Perceived Discrimination Scale for Parents of Children with ASD was developed,which included two dimensions: discrimination perception and discrimination attribution.The questionnaire includes 10 items in total,of which 6 items about discrimination perception and 4 items about discrimination attribution.The Cronbach ? coefficient of the questionnaire is 0.905.The reliability and validity of the questionnaire are in accordance with the requirements of psychometrics.In the second study,in order to explore the relationship among perceived discrimination,social anxiety and perceived social support,383 parents of children with ASD were investigated by the Perceived Discrimination Scale for Parents of Children with ASD,the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale,and the Perceived Social Support Scale.The results showed that social anxiety plays an intermediary role between perceived discrimination and perceived social support in parents of children with ASD.In the third study,26 parents of children with ASD and 26 parents of children with typical development were selected.This study used dot probe task paradigm and social vocabulary(refusal word,support word,neutral word)as experimental material.Besides,eye movement trajectory was recorded during experiment,to investigate the attention bias and memory bias of parents of children with ASD to different types of social vocabulary.And by comparing different scores of the Perceived Discrimination Scale of parents of children with ASD with their bias to different types of social words.The results showed that there was the attention avoidance to the support words for the parents of children with ASD,and their memory to the support words was poor,compared with the parents of children with typical development.Moreover,the stronger the degree of perceived discrimination of parents of children with ASD,the more obvious this effect was.In conclusion,parents of children with ASD have obvious perceived discrimination and social anxiety,and the stronger the degree of social anxiety,the lower the degree of perceived social support.They tend to pay attention to refusal information and avoid supportive information,so they have a low level of perceived social support.Social anxiety is an intermediary variable in the relationship between perceived discrimination and perceived social support.