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المستخلص
Introduction:
As a matter of fact, studying parental treatment styles considers one of the important matters an individual and society are caring about. These styles help identifying parents’ orientation towards the way they should deal with their children. Family is first primary environment in which a child is reared and lives in., all scientists assure the important role a family plays in children life, development, and personality growth and formation. Moreover, children with special needs are a special category suffering multiple problems such as disability, Down syndrome, mental retardation, and autism which requires more care and more concern. Autism considers one of the disabilities discovered by Lukens in 1943 that refers to shortness in emotional and communicative relationship between mother and a child, and referred to fathers as the cause for imbalance of this relationship and having autism.
Autism is one of the most mysterious developmental disabilities for on standing on real reasons causing this disorder on one hand, and for the weirdness of the maladjustive behavior patterns caused by autism. It is a strange case characterized by the child being involved and concerned about himself being drawn away from social life and incapable of performing any social skills such as verbal and non-verbal interaction.
Parental treatment styles play a critical role in children socialization and personality growth as asserted by lots of Arabic and foreign studies in this domain.
Caring about our children is a need and an inevitable must that measures the progress of any civilization and its ability to exploit its human wealth and resources, hence, the behaviors of individuals should be properly directed to contribute in society advancement.
Study Problem:
In fact, normal and non-normal Parental treatment styles have remarkable impact on social maturity level of autistic children through following these styles by mothers, being summed up in the following:
1. Is there any relationship between parental treatment styles as perceived by mothers and their autistic children’ social maturity?
2. Are there any differences between average scores of some parental treatment styles of mothers according to difference in sex variable?
3. Are there any differences between average scores of males and females on social maturity variable?
4. Are there any differences between average scores of some parental treatment styles of mothers of Egyptian and Saudi autistic children?
5. Are there any differences between average scores of Egyptian and Saudi autistic children on social maturity variable?
Study Objectives:
1. Explore the relationship between some parental treatment styles and social maturity as perceived by mothers of autistic children.
2. Explore the differences in parental treatment styles of male children mothers compared to females’.
3. Explore the differences between males and females regarding social maturity.
4. Explore the differences in parental treatment styles used by Egyptian and Saudi mothers of autistic children.
5. Explore the differences in social maturity of Egyptian and Saudi autistic children.
Study Significance:
1. The study is significant for attempting to find out the relationship between parental attitudes in treatment as perceived by children as there is a correlation between parental attitude and common fears.
2. The study is significant for the positive/negative impact of parental treatment styles on social maturity according to style followed by autistic children’ mothers.
3. The mother is the first main shelter for a child helping him to acquire social skills, yet, the autistic child’s mother suffers much with her child so, she needs support and enlightenment by guided with styles and approaches of treatment.
4. As far as the researcher knows, the age stage (6-9 year olds) of autistic children has got insufficient care to be examined by researchers, so, the study focuses on it specifically.
5. The importance of multicultural studies that tackle with comparison between parental treatments styles of autistic children in Egyptian and Saudi cultures.
Study Concepts:
1- Parental Treatment Styles.
2- Social Maturity.
3- Autism.
Study Hypotheses:
1. There is a significant statistical correlation between some parental treatments styles as perceived by mothers and their autistic children social maturity.
2. There are significant statistical differences on average scores of some parental treatments styles of mothers due to sex variable.
3. There are significant statistical differences on average scores of some parental treatments styles of Egyptian and Saudi mothers of autistic children.
4. There are significant statistical differences between Egyptian and Saudi autistic children regarding social maturity.
Study Method & Procedures:
The present study follows the qualitative correlative comparative method, for being the most appropriate one for study.
Study Sample:
The study is applied on a sample of autistic children in Egyptian and Saudi societies, being (120) male/females children, divided into (60) Egyptian children and (60) Saudi children divided equally into (30) males and (30) females, aged from (6-9 yrs. old).
Study Instruments:
1. Scale of Fineland for Social Maturity, 1935, translated by Fadia Olwan.
2. Scale of Parental Treatment Styles, by Elhamy Abdel Aziz Emam, 1987.
3. Stanford Binet Test IV Revised Version, by Lewis Kamel.
4. CARS Test, for measuring Autism severity.
Statistical approaches:
The researcher uses the following statistical methods:
1. T Test, for calculating correlations coefficients.
2. Pearson Coefficient Correlation.
Results:
1. The presence of correlation between the function of some of the methods of parental treatment as perceived by mothers and their babies to maturity Social.
2. The lack of statistically significant differences between parental treatment methods depending on the variable sex.
3. The lack of significant differences between the variable sex and social maturity.
4. The presence of statistically significant differences on the variables of parental treatment methods depending on the variable nationality.
5. The presence of statistically significant differences on the
after life skills, social and non-existence of a communication.