Predicting acceptance of responsibility based on flexibility and critical existential thinking in mothers of mentally retarded students

The aim of this research was to predict acceptance of responsibility in mothers of intellectually disabled students. The current research is part of applied research in terms of its purpose and correlational studies in terms of method. The statistical population included all the mothers of mentally retarded students in the age range of 6 to 18 years (about 900 people) who were studying in exceptional schools in Qazvin city in 2019-2020. Among them, 246 people were randomly selected as a sample. The tools of this research included the Lazarus and Folkman Coping Strategies Questionnaire (WSQ) (1984), King's Spiritual Intelligence Scale (SISRI) (2008), and personality traits. The analysis method of this research was simultaneous regression analysis. The findings showed that flexibility and existential thinking can predict the acceptance of responsibility of mothers of students with mental disabilities and explain 3.9 of the variance of the acceptance of responsibility variable (p<0.05). It is concluded that flexibility and critical existential thinking play an essential role in predicting the acceptance of responsibility.