Question

1) Why might parents of children diagnosed with various disorders/conditions perceive they receive less social support compared to parents of children who do not have any diagnoses?

2) How are stress and social support related? Is this relationship one-way (i.e., stress causes issues with social support; lack of social support causes stress) or bidirectional (i.e., stress causes issues with social support AND lack of social support causes stress)? Elaborate.

Answer 1

•ANSWER•1

•Parents of children diagnosed with variuos disorder perceive they recieve less social support compared to parents of children who dont have any diagnoses because

•Less social interaction- Parents of children diagnosed with various disorder recieve less social support because they are not interacting to society.

•Less Time- they are not having more time to give society because of their children, so they did not made interpersonal relationship with society as campare to parents of which children not diagnosed with any disease.

•Imotional disabilty- Parents of diagnosed children suffered imotional disability due to caring for disable children, economical burden, imbarrassment .

• Impact of financial burden- they are very busy to earn money for their children .so they dont have time interact society. So automatically do not recieve social support.

•ANSWER•2

•Stress and social support•

•Strees and social support are interrelated to each other because stress can affect the social interaction amoung the people.as well as affect the social support and vice versa.

•Lack of social support will also cause the stress because lack of social support can lead to depression due to lack social interaction,anxiety, lonliness, social isolation.

•Social support or social interaction decrease the anxiety lonliness by the providing imotional and informational social support.