Analyzing the problem of family with disabled child experiencing the stress of everyday
life several factors should be taken into account: external situational factors, internal factors
of personality and community, the effects of functioning under stress and coping with the
stress of disability. Stressors of everyday life, stages of family life and the process of adaptation
of parents to the child’s disability were the situational factors. In contrast, the most important
personality factors supporting the process of coping included remedial emotional resources,
especially the differences in emotionality of women and men and the differences in emotional
reactions to stress (coping strategies). Efficient and effective way to overcome the stress of
disability was a collaboration of the spouses in the struggle with adversity. The quality of
relationships in the family, especially understanding and acceptance of the marital dyad partners,
was a decisive predictor of well-being and happiness of the entire family system
