Self-Efficacy and its Relationship to Depression, Anxiety and Stress in a Sample of Mothers of Children with Cerebral Palsy

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Center for Children's Disabilities Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Caring for a child with cerebral palsy has psychological, social, and financial implications for the family, and increases the risk of psychological problems in mothers.  The aim of the research is to detect whether there is a relationship between self-efficacy and depression, anxiety and stress in mothers of children with cerebral palsy. detect whether there is a relationship between the chronological age of mothers and  (self-efficacy, depression, anxiety, stress),   detect whether there is Differences in the self-efficacy of mothers of children with cerebral palsy according to the educational level of the mothers, and the predictive ability of self-efficacy on the presence of (depression, anxiety, stress) among mothers of children with cerebral palsy.
This was done through a descriptive study on a sample of (42) mothers of children with cerebral palsy. the research relied on the New Self-Efficiency Scale prepared by (Chen, Gully & Eden, 2001) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale prepared by (Parkitny & McAuley, 2010), the study reached several conclusions: Presence of a statistically significant correlation between self-efficacy, depression and anxiety among mothers of children with cerebral palsy.   Presence of a statistically significant correlation between the chronological age of mothers and self-efficacy, depression.  Presence of statistically significant differences between the average degrees of self-efficacy among Mothers of children with cerebral palsy according to the educational level of the mother in favor of mothers with higher education. The research revealed the possibility of predicting depression and anxiety among mothers of children with cerebral palsy given their scores on self-efficacy.

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