Influence of Family Support on Parental Care Burden of Autism Spectrum Disorder with Parental Acceptance as a Mediator

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Abstract

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently struggle to maintain their mental health and wellbeing due to high levels of stress.. This will result in an even heavier burden on parenting, therefore, it is very important to find a model to relieve the burden.  The aim of this study is to find out whether parental acceptance can mediate family support with parental care burden for parents who have autistic children. The sample used in this study had as many as 33 parents. Path analysis is the data analysis technique employed in this investigation, with a significance value of 0.090 larger than 0.05, the direct effect analysis findings reveal that parental acceptance is not significantly impacted by family support; family support has a significant effect on parenting burden with a significance value of 0.05≤ 0.05; and parental acceptance has a significant effect on parental care burden with a significance value of 0.030 ≤ 0.05. The results of the analysis on Sobel’s analysis are known that the t value of the table of 2,036 ≥ t-statistic of 1,404 which means that the effect of family support on the burden of parental care can not be mediated by the parental acceptance variable.