A comparative study of deaf children’s family resilience

• Authors: Liu Shenglin , Miloň Potměšíl

Title variants

PL

Porównawcze badania odporności psychicznej w rodzinach dzieci głuchych

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study compares families’ adaptation to childhood deafness in China and the Czech Republic. A sample of 160 families with deaf children were studied; 107 from China, 53 from the Czech Republic. The results showed that (1) overall, both family groups demonstrated resilience when facing the risk of childhood deafness by accepting the children’s deafness, functioning normally, and expecting a good future for their children; (2) Chinese families and Czech families did not demonstrate significant differences in the overall outcome of positive adaptation but displayed apparent differences in adaptiv patterns; (3) Chinese families were impacted more severely than Czech families by childhood deafness due to the lack of adequate social support, but cohesive family relationships and more positive changes in family belief such as optimism, altruism and tolerance toward differences might mediate the adverse impact caused by children’s deafness.

Keywords

EN

comparative study; family resilience; deaf children; China; the Czech Republic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
• Journal: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 28-43

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Liu Shenglin

• Faculty of Education, Sichuan Normal University

author

Miloň Potměšíl

• Institute of Special Education Studies, Faculty of Education, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic