The Role of Spiritual Attitude in Child-Rearing in Predicting the Psychological Hardiness of Mothers with Handicapped Children

Objectives: providing care to children who have disability is often a stressful experience, yet spiritualbeliefs may help mothers to be patient, tolerant and  hard in coping with child-rearing difficulties. thisstudy examined the relationship between the spiritual attitudes of mothers of handicapped children tochild-rearing and psychological hardiness. methods: in a descriptive correlational study, 120 mothers of handicapped children who were referred tothe rehabilitation clinics of the university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences (rofeideh,akhavan and sina clinics) were selected through purposeful sampling and answered the sanctification ofparents scale (sps), and personal views survey (pvs). data were analyzed by spss-20 software andstatistical procedures including pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis were used. results: results showed that spiritual attitudes to child-rearing are significant predictors of hardiness in mothers. discussion: it seems like having spiritual attitudes in difficult situations such as providing care fordisabled children plays a significant role in mother’s patience and hardiness.