Predictors of stress-related growth in parents of children with ADHD

▶ Parents of children with ADHD. ▶ Stress-related growth in 71 parents of children with ADHD, compared with 80 parents of non-clinical children. ▶ Contributing variables to personal growth: emotional intelligence (individual characteristics), social support (environmental factors), parental self-efficacy and perceptions of parenting as a challenge vs. a threat (cognitive processing). ▶ Emotional intelligence was the main predictor of stress-related growth, particularly for parents of ADHD children. ▶ Social support made a greater contribution to growth for the control group than for parents of children with ADHD. ▶ Path analysis indicated that parents' sense of competence and of parenthood as a challenge vs. a threat mediates between emotional intelligence and social support on the one hand, and growth on the other