Parenting preschoolers with autism: Socioeconomic influences on wellbeing and sense of competence

Table 5 Means and standard deviations for culturally and linguistically diverse and non-culturally and linguistically diverse parents’ parenting sense of competence and symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress

	CALD, mean (SD, range)	Non-CALD, mean (SD, range)
Mothers
PSOC satisfaction	3.65 (1.06, 1.2-5.6), n = 57	3.78 (0.98, 2-6), n = 41
PSOC efficacy	4.32 (0.84, 1.86-6), n = 57	4.34 (0.99, 1.43-5.71), n = 41
PSOC interest	4.76 (1.3, 1-6), n = 57	5.01 (0.90, 3-6), n = 41
DASS depression	3.39 (3.56, 0-13), n = 51	3.49 (3.77, 0-13), n = 41
DASS anxiety	2.66 (2.97, 0-9), n = 50	2.63 (2.99, 0-11), n = 41
DASS stress	5.60 (3.57, 0-13), n = 50	4.61 (4.41, 0-15), n = 41
Fathers
PSOC satisfaction	3.90 (0.93, 2.17-5.67), n = 29	3.55 (0.78, 2.33-5), n = 20
PSOC efficacy	4.35 (0.93, 3-5.71), n = 29	4.26 (0.80, 2.71-5.57), n = 20
PSOC interest	4.52 (0.95, 2.5-6), n = 29	4.85 (1.05, 2.5-6), n = 20
DASS depression	2.70 (3.68, 0-15), n = 30	5.10 (4.99, 0-16), n = 20
DASS anxiety	2.45 (2.71, 0-11), n = 29	2.35 (3.51, 0-13), n = 20
DASS stress	4.24 (3.77, 0-15), n = 29	5.85 (5.07, 0-15), n = 20

CALD: Culturally and linguistically diverse; PSOC: Parenting Sense of Competence; DASS: Depression Anxiety Stress Scale.