Maternal behavior and social adaptive behavior of children with mild mental retardation

• Main Author: Cheng, Hsin-Yi (Joyce)
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2003
• Subjects: Children > conduct of life; Social adjustment; People with mental disabilities; Intellectual disability; Special Education and Teaching
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3031; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9869&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study looks into the correlation between mothers' behavior towards their children with mild mental retardation and the teachers' perceived social adaptive behavior of these children in school. These social adaptive behaviors include social interchange, responding to social cues, recognizing feelings, regulating own behavior, assisting others and fostering friendship. The mothers' positive and negative behaviors toward their children with mild mental retardation and the degree to which these were manifested by the mothers are also looked into. It also investigates what social adaptive behaviors of children with mild mental retardation associate with their mothers' behaviors toward them. It employed the descriptive-correlational method utilizing a validated researcher-devised questionnaire. The participants were 48 mothers of children with mild mental retardation and their teachers from selected SPED centers in the Division of City Schools, Manila. The findings of the study revealed that mothers of children with mild mental retardation manifested positive and neutral behaviors towards their children. The teachers' perceived social adaptive behaviors of the children included the following: in terms of social interchange, the behaviors were relating comfortably with classmates, initiating conversations, engaging in group activities and engaging in imaginary play, responding to social cues, recognizing feelings, regulating own behaviors, assisting others and fostering friendship in terms of responding to social cues, the behaviors were responding to verbal greetings appropriately, having eye-contact when called, following verbal interactions, giving personal information when asked, and answering when called in terms of recognizing feelings, the behaviors included expressing affection appropriately, showing happiness when others are happy, recognizing feelings of others, comforting others who are sad and avoiding offending others in terms of regulating, their own behaviors, these were: putting back school.