مقايسه سبك هاي مقابله اي و بهزيستي روان شناختي در مادران كودكان مبتلا به اوتيسم و عادي

The purpose of this study was the comparision of coping strategies and psychological well-being in mothers of children with autism disorder and mothers of normal children in Isfahan city.The research method was causal-comparative. The subjects were 56 mothers of children with autism disorder, were selected, through random sampling method and 56 mothers of normal children who were autographically in harmony were chosen as the control group.The measurement tools were Ryff (9191) Psychological Well-being Questionnarie and Lazaros- Folkman Coping Strategies (9196) .After ghathring the data the statistical analysis of multivariate variance (MANOVA ) was applied.F statistic values at (P  0/05) showed that mother of children with autism disorder were lower than The mothers of normal children in Psychological wellbeing. and there is a significant difference Between psychological well – being of mothers of children with Autism and mothers of normal children. Also results revealed there was no significant difference between two groups in coping strategies (P  0/ 05) .The results indicated that the mothers of children with Autism Disorder had low well- Being Psychological status (P  0/05) .Therefore, attending to mental needs of mothers of children with autism disorder is important.