Socio-economic status (SES) and social supports have been strongly linked with both authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles among parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Western countries. While Indonesia is one of the most heavily populated countries in the world, research focusing on factors associated with parenting style among Indonesian families with a child with ASD is largely absent from the literature. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships among SES, social supports and parenting styles among Indonesian parents of children with ASD. One hundred and one Indonesian parents of a child with ASD completed the survey. SES and social supports both emerged as unique predictors of parenting styles for these parents, although the direction of the association with SES was unexpected. For Indonesian parents of children with ASD, lower SES and more supports predicted more authoritative and less authoritarian parenting. This study supports existing evidence for associations among parenting style and social supports, but raises questions about the cultural meanings of these parenting styles for parents with a child with ASD in Indonesia.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD, parenting, social supports, socio-economic status, Indonesia
Research Division:	Psychology
Research Group:	Applied and developmental psychology
Research Field:	Child and adolescent development
Objective Division:	Law, Politics and Community Services
Objective Group:	Community services
Objective Field:	Families and family services
UTAS Author:	Cuskelly, M (Professor Monica Cuskelly)
ID Code:	129382
Year Published:	2019 (online first 2018)
Web of Science® Times Cited:	3
Deposited By:	Education
Deposited On:	2018-11-27
Last Modified:	2021-10-28
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