The Relationship of Parenting Stress to Family Resiliency among Displaced Community Parents

Introduction: Parenting stress may not hinder resilience and productivity when handled and managed responsibly and innovatively. Among resettled community parents, stress that is assessed yields family resiliency and the capability to manage life no matter how hard it is. The transactional model of stress and coping proves that stress serves as a challenge that is transacted with the environment so the whole family will not only cope but thrive.

Methods: A total of forty relocated community parents were involved in this quantitative survey of parenting stress and family resiliency. Scales were found to be reliable and valid measures of the constructs were taken.

Results: Findings describe a moderate level of parenting stress and a high level of family resiliency (M=4.15) among the parents sampled, implying that stress can be an impetus to resiliency. There was a positive correlation between parenting stress and family resiliency; a unit increase in parenting stress will enable employing family communication and problem solving (FCPS, r=0.64***), maintaining a positive outlook (MPO, r=0.64***), maintaining family connectedness (FC, r=0.65***), and family spirituality (FS, r=0.43***), and finding meaning in adversity (MMA, r=0.55***). There was no significant correlation with utilization of social and economic resources (USER), implying a tendency for self-reliance.

Conclusions: The findings encourage the family values of resilience and connectedness during hard times. With policies on orientation and community mental health support, global health is attained. Faith-based coping and internal resource mobilization allow displaced populations to sustain wellbeing through adaptive functioning.