• Dr.Aparna Bhalerao

Abstract- The present research aims at study of coping strategies and Emotional intelligence among mothers having children with autism and mothers having children with intellectual disability. It also tries to analyze relationship between the coping strategies and emotional intelligence among mothers having children with autism and mother having children with intellectual disability. This study identifies the different types of coping strategies used by mothers. The samples for this study consist of 300 mothers whose children admitted in Government as well as Private schools and institutes at Nagpur district. The total participants in the study were (n= 300) out of which the mother having children with autism were (n=100), (n= 50 mild autistic and n= 50 moderate autistic). Similarly, the mothers having children with intellectual disability were (n=100), (n= 50 mild intellectual disability and n= 50 moderate intellectual disability) also Mothers (n= 100) having normal children. For the measurement of Emotional Intelligence, Hyde’s Emotional Intelligence Scale was employed and for Coping strategies, Lazarus and Folkman’s Ways of Coping Scale was used. In descriptive statistics mean and SD has been calculated then two-way analyses of variances (ANOVA). Result reveals that there is significant difference in coping strategies and level of emotional intelligence of mothers having children with autism, mothers having children with intellectual disability and mothers having normal children.

Intellectual disability, Autism, Coping strategies, Emotional Intelligence

"COPING STRATEGIES AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG THE MOTHERS OF CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, MOTHERS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN AND NORMAL CHILDREN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.b887-b893, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309200.pdf

"COPING STRATEGIES AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG THE MOTHERS OF CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, MOTHERS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN AND NORMAL CHILDREN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppb887-b893, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309200.pdf