Reconstructing Life Goals After the Birth of a Child With Down Syndrome: Finding Happiness and Growing

摘要: Parents of children with Down Syndrome (DS; N = 87) wrote about current goals and they had before learned their child would have DS (lost goals) completed measures salience the narrative, subjective well-being (SWB), stress-related growth. Independent raters scored narratives on levels elaboration. We conducted a follow-up study 2 years later (N 42)) using SWB growth measures. There was an association between investing in heightened SWB, whereas lost related weakly to reduced SWB. However, study, there increased These results suggest that hopes for future enhance over time considering loss relates feelings personal Growth may be independent each other.