Rumination and Mental Health among Parents of Differently-Abled Children
- Institution: Aligarh Muslim University
- Institution: Aligarh Muslim University
- Year of publication: 2019
- Source: Show
- Pages: 285-301
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.19.56.2.23
- PDF: tner/201902/tner5623.pdf
Ample research has been done on rumination and mental health. However, minimum effort has been exerted to investigate these variables among parents of differently-abled children. The presented study investigates the relationship between rumination and mental health among parents of differently-abled children. The study also aimed to revisit the psychometric characteristics of the rumination scale. Two hundred parents were selected from different rehabilitation schools of the Kashmir Valley. The mean age and standard deviation of the respondents were 40.04 and 5.31, respectively. Results of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) indicated that model fit for the rumination scale was poor (c2 /df = 2.33; CFI =.65; AGFI;.76; RMSEA;.08; TLI;.61), whereas the model fit of the mental health was excellent. A negative relationship was found between rumination and mental health on the composite score as well as on their dimensions.
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