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Hope as a coping resource among parents at risk for child maltreatment |
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| Authors: | Chan M. Hellman Rachael A. Robinson-Keilig Nicholas M. Dubriwny Cynthia Hamill Ashleigh Kraft |
| Affiliation: | 1. Anne &2. Henry Zarrow School of Social Work, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USAchellman@ou.edu;4. Department of Human Relations, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA;5. Center of Applied Research for Nonprofit Organizations, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA;6. Parent Child Center of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA |
| Abstract: | This study investigated hope as a protective factor buffering the relationships between parenting stress and well-being among a sample of parents identified at moderate to high risk for child maltreatment. Two hundred parents were recruited from a nonprofit organization providing secondary and tertiary child maltreatment prevention programs. Results of the analyses showed that parental stress was negatively associated with subjective and emotional well-being. Hope was positively correlated with well-being and negatively associated with parenting stress. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that hope had a significant incremental relationship to well-being and that the negative effects of parenting stress fell below statistical significance. These findings provide preliminary support for hope as a coping resource social workers can target when working with parents in the prevention of child maltreatment. |
| Keywords: | At-risk families hope parenting stress well-being |