A research on burnout and psychological resilience of the families with disabled children and families with unimpeded children

Definition of disability has defined as a normal person can not doing things that must do oneself in own personal or social life because of hereditary or subsequently flaw in own physical or psychical abilities. Having disabled child in family cause members behave different attitude due to, worry about how can disabled member get schooling or the future after family members die. Therefore the resulting stress and anxiety affect burnout in family members. In this phase psychological hardiness important factor for resilience when stressing. Resilience when faced with stressful life situations are the most important elements of self- recovery power. The concept of burnout, consists of three subscales that include emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment as the feeling of fall. In this work, examined burnout and psychological hardiness in 203 family have and 153 family have not disabled child with parameters of child age, education level of parents, level of income, number of child and kin marriage. Key Words : Disabled, Family, Resilience, Burnout