Family adaptability and cohesion and the subjective well-being of parents of children with disabilities: the mediating role of coping style and resilience.

FAMILY relations; CHILDREN with disabilities; SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology); PARENTS with disabilities; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRUCTURAL equation modeling

Parents of children with disabilities face more significant economic, psychological, and social pressure, which may impact their subjective well-being (SWB). Conversely, parents' SWB also contributes to the children's physical and mental development. However, parents of children with disabilities are a less studied population, and their SWB needs further attention. In this study, we recruited 616 parents of children with disabilities. We used the Family Closeness and Adaptation Scale, Simple Coping Style Questionnaire, Psychological Resistivity Scale, and Subjective Well-being Scale to investigate the influencing mechanism of family adaptability and cohesion on SWB. Structural equation models were built to explore the relationships between variables. Our findings indicate that the family adaptability and cohesion of parents of children with disabilities positively predict SWB, active coping style and resilience partially mediate the relationship between family adaptability and cohesion and SWB, and family adaptability and cohesion indirectly and positively predicated SWB through the chain mediation of resilience and active coping. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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