COGNITIVE ADAPTATION IN DOWN SYNDROME CHILDREN'S MOTHERS

Authors

  • Rosalinda Romero
  • Beatriz Morillo
Keywords: Down syndrome, cognitive adaptation, mothers, threatening events

Abstract

he current investigation was conducted to determine the Cognitive Adaptation (AC) in Down Syndrome (SD) children’s mothers. The research was a descriptive study based on AC theory created by S.E. Taylor (1983) wich explain the adjustment mechanism to threatening events. It used a sample with 83 DS’s mothers who attended at educational centres in Zulia State of Venezuela. The instruments used was AC for SD Scale (ACODOWN, 1999) and Scale of Graffar. The results obtained indicates that 49% of mothers has a medium-high level of AC with an average of 5.140.42. In the AC process us founded that effort recovering self-esteem dimension had a high contribution (5.470.62), in second place gaining of control (5.020.75) and lately sense of searching (4.900.78). This research concluded that SD children’s mothers withages between 0-6 year old have AC and after the initial crisis have hope in the satisfactory evolution of his children, making actions to get mastery in this event.

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Author Biographies

Rosalinda Romero

Universidad de Zulia Maracaibo Venezuela

Beatriz Morillo

Asesoría Psicológica Integral Maracaibo Venezuela
How to Cite
Romero, R., & Morillo, B. (2002). COGNITIVE ADAPTATION IN DOWN SYNDROME CHILDREN’S MOTHERS. Anales de Psicología / Annals of Psychology, 18(1), 169–181. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/28681
Issue
Vol. 18 No. 1 (2002)
Section
Developmental and Educational Psychology

 

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