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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by an individual PhD studentship grant attributed to the first author by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/75970/2011). The ENVIRH project was funded by a research grant attributed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/SAU-ESA/100275/2008). This study aimed to examine the differences between mothers of children with and without respiratory problems in variables related to psychological, parental, and marital functioning and to determine which contributed more to parenting stress, because there is a lack of information in this field. Participants were 459 mothers of children attending kindergartens, who accepted to participate. The instruments were The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Parenting Stress Index-Short Form, Parenting Stress Index-Long Form, and Escala de Avaliação da Satisfação em Áreas da Vida Conjugal. Anxiety, depression, and parenting stress were higher in the more symptomatic children and parenting stress was associated with anxiety, depression, and marital satisfaction. Findings support the relevance of children's respiratory-related variables to mothers' psychological, parental, and marital functioning. publishersversion published |
