Determinants Of Parental Stress With Slow Learner Child In A Klang Primary School

This study aimed to determine the determinants of parental stress with slow learner child in a Klang primary school using their socio-demographic information and calculated their parental stress using Parental Stress Scale (PSS). In this study, quantitative survey method was used and survey questionnaire were distributed using Google Forms to parents with slow learner child in one primary school (with special education) in Klang through selective sampling. There were 30 parents with slow learner child participated in this study. The data was analyzed using version 26 of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The socio-demographic information that used in this study for main findings are gender, income, number of children and highest education level to correlate with parental stress score or parental stress level. In this study, there is no gender differences on parental stress score when using Independent T-test. Moreover, while using One-Way ANOVA, there is no significant effect of educational level on the stress level of parents with slow learner child. Other than that, Pearson Correlation test also demonstrated that there is no significant relationship between number of children and stress level on parents with slow learner child and there is also no significant relationship between income and stress level on parents with slow learner child. Although these results were not expected, other findings could be found to discuss the outcome gain from this study. To further improve this study, future researchers were suggested to conduct this study with more participants taking part and same frequencies for each category to compare between the groups