A Comparison in the Importance of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs among Latinx Parents of Children with Disabilities

Abstract

This paper focuses on exploring the differences in the importance of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices (SRBP) between Latinx parents who have children with emotional, physical, and cognitive disabilities. Previous research has focused on looking at individual disabilities, such as autism—comparison in differences in importance of SRBP among Latinx parents needs to be further explored. Data from 154 Latinx parents in the United States was collected from an online survey, and a multiple linear regression was used with several predictor groups. Results indicated statistical significance between parents who have children with emotional disabilities and the importance of SRBP.

Keywords:

• Latinx parents
• disabilities
• religion
• spirituality

Disclosure statement

The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.

Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Correction Statement

This article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.

Notes

1 Centiment is a research panel provider that recruits respondents from a pool of over four million adults to collect data for online, self-administered surveys through social media platforms. More information can be found here: https://www.centiment.co/survey-tool

2 The larger percentage of fathers in the sample are reflective of the primary target of the initial study, which focused on Hispanic fathers who have a child with a disability.

Additional information

Funding

Dean’s Incentive Research Award. “Increasing Health and Well-being of Hispanic Fathers who have a Child with Disabilities: Cultural Factors, Fatherhood Identity, and Father Self-Efficacy as Moderators to Stigma”.