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David E. Gray
Researcher at University of New England (Australia)
Publications - 14
Citations - 2206
David E. Gray is an academic researcher from University of New England (Australia). The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Coping (psychology). The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 14 publications receiving 2074 citations. Previous affiliations of David E. Gray include University of New England (United States).
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‘Everybody just freezes. Everybody is just embarrassed’: felt and enacted stigma among parents of children with high functioning autism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of a study of felt and enacted stigma among a sample of parents of children with high functioning autism, finding that a majority of the parents experienced both types of stigma, but that mothers were more likely to do so than fathers.
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Gender and coping: the parents of children with high functioning autism.
TL;DR: This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the role of gender and coping among parents of children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome in an Australian sample and describes the various strategies that parents use to cope with their child's disability.
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Perceptions of stigma: the parents of autistic children
TL;DR: This article conducted a qualitative study of parents of autistic children and found that most parents perceived themselves to be stigmatised by their child's disorder, and there was a strong tendency for mothers to feel more stigmatised than fathers.
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Ten years on: a longitudinal study of families of children with autism
TL;DR: The results of a longitudinal, ethnographic study of the psychosocial adaptation of parents of children with autism as mentioned in this paper indicated that most parents have experienced improvements in terms of their own psychological well-being, the social experiences of their immediate family members and their relations with members of their extended family.
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Psycho-social well-being among the parents of children with autism
David E. Gray,William J. Holden +1 more
TL;DR: The results of regression analysis indicated that fathers, and those parents who received more social support, had lower scores of depression, anxiety and anger as discussed by the authors and the age of symptom onset was positively related to depression, but was not significant in terms of anxiety or anger, while the type nor the extent of coping behaviours was significantly related to any of the measures of psycho-social well-being used in this study.