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Abstract
The aim of the study was to investigate social competence in children with orthopaedic disability and its concurrent relations to child’s temperament, health condition, and maternal warmth. Participants were 68 Turkish children (mean = 5.94 years) with chronic orthopaedic disability and their mothers coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Mother ratings were used to measure social competence, temperament, general health condition, and parental warmth. The attending physician rated the severity of orthopaedic disability. Attentional focusing, emotional reactivity, and child’s sex significantly predicted social competence. Age at first operation was slightly negatively associated with reactivity. The findings revealed the importance of emotional and attentional regulation for social functioning in children with orthopaedic disability, and pointed to the susceptibility of reactivity to environmental conditions. The study suggested that social functioning of youth with orthopaedic disability might benefit from temperament-based intervention and prevention programmes.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Metin Sabanci, Baltalimani Bone Diseases Education and Research Hospital, and Dr Firat Yagmurlu for their help in recruiting the children; Sena Soysal, Evren Etel, Sibel Ozcan, Beste Ucak, Tugce Kürkcüoğlu, Ayten Bilgin, Ozgun Basturk, and Deniz Kinikli for collecting the data; and the mothers and children for their time and friendly cooperation. There was no research funding for this study, and no restrictions have been imposed on free access to, or publication of, the research data.