Research Into The Factors Influencing The High Life Satisfaction Among The Parents Of Special Children

Special children refer to the handicapped children who have physical or psychological development defects,including the handicapped children in hearing,vision,intelligence,emotion,body and communication,as well as the handicapped children.The emergence of special children is a serious negative life event for families.Special children are different from ordinary children in many aspects,so their parents are under great pressure in the process of helping their children improve their social adaptability and all-round physical and mental development.The life satisfaction experienced by parents of special children under pressure will be greatly affected,which may have a negative impact on parents' personal development and children's rehabilitation treatment.Therefore,it is necessary to explore the influencing factors of parents' high life satisfaction of special children.In this study,quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to explore the influencing factors of parents' high life satisfaction of special children.This study includes the following two parts:The first part: the survey of parents' life satisfaction of special children.In this part,306 parents of special children were investigated by using the life satisfaction index A to understand the overall situation of parents' life satisfaction of special children and the differences in demographic variables.At the same time,all the subjects were ranked from high to low according to the scale score.The top 27% of the subjects had high life satisfaction.Parents of special children with high life satisfaction are the subjects of the second part.The second part: qualitative research on the influencing factors of parents' high life satisfaction of special children.On the premise that the research object voluntarily participates in the research,the purpose sampling method is selected to select the parents of special children with high life satisfaction who are typical and can provide the largest amount of information as the interviewees to explore the influencing factors of their high life satisfaction.The conclusions are as follows:First,the life satisfaction of parents of special children is generally at a low level,and there are significant differences in demographic variables such as family type,employment situation,whether the children are the only child or not,and the degree of children's obstacles.There was no significant difference in demographic variables such as gender,age,education level,only child or not,residence,children's gender,children's age,children's barrier type and children's treatment time.Second,the level of self compassion?gratitude?active emotion regulation strategies?parent-child affinity?understanding that social support?self –disclosure?self-reflection?personal growth initiative and high self-efficacy affect parents' high life satisfaction.