Structural Modeling Styles for Attachment to God; Resilience and Mental Health in Mothers of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

The aim of current research was to study the structural modeling styles for attachment to God; resilience and mental health in mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a correlational design. The statistical population includes all of the mothers of elementary school children with intellectual and developmental disabilities who live in the city of Tabriz in the years 2014 and 2015. To fulfill the stated goal sampling 200 students were selected and the Connor- Davidson’s resilience inventory (2003) and Rowatt and Kirkpatrick’s attachment to God inventory (2002) and mental health inventory of Dragotis and et al (1976) were used to gather the data. Structural equation modeling revealed that among attachments to God, the secure attachment results in an increase in mental health; and the attachment with anxiety factors results in a reduction of mental health; and also the avoidance attachment results a reduction both in mental health and resilience. In addition, resilience was a reason to increase mental health; but resilience in the relation between attachment to God and mental health did not have any mediating role. In regard with the importance of the spiritually developmental constructions in raising positive effects on mental health and its application both on research areas and psychological interventions is suggested for mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and other groups

attachment to god and resilience among mothers of intellectual disability and normal childeren

This study examined the attachment to God and resiliency among mothers of normal and intellectual disability children. Ex post facto (correlational) design was used. In the same vein, to gathering data in school of regular and special education needs, clustering sampling was used. After excluding incomplete questionnaires, 92 mothers of children with intellectual disabilities and 94 mothers of children with normal were selected to analysis of data. The Hotelling's index revealed significant difference in all of aspects include (avoidance attachment, secure attachment, anxious attachment to God and resiliency) between two groups. In multiple regression model, The Stepwise method, have predicted the relationship between secure attachment to God with resiliency among mothers of normal children and avoidance attachment to God with decreased resiliency among mothers of intellectual disabilities as well. The results show that the type of attachment to God can be predicts the resiliency in the face of the challenges of life