Self Efficacy Findings in Families of Intellectually Diasabled Children of Cuddalore District, Tamilnadu

Albert Bandura identified Self Efficacy as central to understanding an individual‘s transaction with their environment. That is, Self efficacy expectations are, linked to perceived skills of individual, knowledge of appropriate behaviors and it  is also linked to success or failure of task in the past. Bandura further explains, a strong inter relation exists among vicarious experience, social persuasion and emotional arousal in influencing self-efficacy. Parents of intellectually disabled children face many difficulties in their life time, when compared to other forms of disability. Based on research studies, we can understand that they are in need of, parenting programme, where, the professional training to handle stress is much essential. Though many scales for studying, parental self-efficacy is available, TOPSE was selected as suitable for the study sample by researcher of this study.    It, was devised by KENDALL S. & BLOOMFIELD L. (2005) and they published at Journal of Advanced Nursing 51(2), their construction and validation of the scale.  It was included as instrument to assess parental self-efficacy; its reliability & validity are also proved by authors. This present study applies TOPSE to study parental self-efficacy for families of Intellectually Disabled children, residing in Cuddalore district of Tamilnadu.

Keywords:
Bandura Self Efficacy, Vicarious Experience, Social Persuasion, Emotional Arousal, Parental Self-efficacy, Family of Intellectually Disabled Children, Cuddalore District.