Social support, hardiness and hope face perceived by parents having a child who is in need of special education

In this study social support, hardiness as a character property and face of hope percieved by parents having a child who is in need of special education were analyzed. 411 parents including 236 mothers and 175 fathers who live in Sakarya took part in this research. To gather data Hert Hope Scale, Psychological Hardiness Scale, Social Support Perceived Multidimensional and Personal Information Form were used. To analyze the data was obtained from the research Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient, Analysis of Multi-regression, For Unrelated Samples t-Test were used. In consequense of the research, it was found out hope face of parents doesn't show significant difference in term of varience of gender. Additionally, it was found out there is a positive and low relation between hope face and level of hardiness and also there is a low relation between hope face and percieved social support and significant relation was determined between family support, friend support and special support respectively. The other result which were obtained from the research are that varience of family support, hardiness, friend support and special support predict hope face. Hardiness and family support, friend support, special support cooperatively explain 26 percent of varience of hope face. Findings obtained from the research were discussed in the light of relevant literature. Key words: Hope Face, Perceived Social Support, Hardiness, Special Education, Parent.