ABSTRACT
Objective:To explore the relationship among ruminating,affiliate stigma and post-traumatic growth in parents of autistic children.Methods:Totally 339 parents of autistic children were selected.The Affiliate Stigma Scale(ASS),Post-traumatic Growth Inventory(PTGI),ERRI Intrusive Subscale(ERRI-I)and ERRI De-liberate Subscale(ERRI-D)of Event Related Rumination Inventory(ERRI)were used to measure affiliate stigma,post-traumatic growth,intrusive ruminating and deliberate ruminating.SPSS macro program PROCESS was used to test the mediating role.Results:There were positive correlations among the scores of ASS,ERRI-I and ERRI-D(r=0.39-0.72,Ps＜0.01).The PTGl scores were negatively correlated with ASS scores(r=0.26,Ps＜0.01)and positively correlated with ERRI-D scores(r=0.10,Ps＜0.05).The ERRI-D scores played a partial mediating role in the relationship between ASS and PTGl scores(95％CI:0.01-0.07).The ERRI-I scores and ERRI-D scores played a serial mediating role in the relationship between ASS and PTGI scores(95％CI:0.03-0.14).Both me-diation paths had suppression effect.Conclusion:In the negative correlation between affiliate stigma and post-trau-matic growth in parents of autistic children,the deliberate ruminating plays a partial mediating role,while intrusive ruminating and deliberate ruminating play a serial mediating role.