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Family-centered practices and the parental well-being of young children with disabilities and developmental delay Mas Mestre, Joana Maria Dunst, Carl J. Balcells, Anna García-Ventura, Simón Giné Giné, Climent Cañadas, Margarita Família Trastorns del desenvolupament Discapacitat intel·lectual Background Research evidence from studies in North America on the relationships between family-centered practices, parents’ self-efficacy beliefs, parenting confidence and competence beliefs, and parents’ psychological well-being was used to confirm or disconfirm the same relationships in two studies in Spain. Aims The aim of Study 1 was to determine if results from studies in North America could be replicated in Spain and the aim of Study 2 was to determine if results from Study 1 could be replicated with a second sample of families in Spain. Methods and procedures A survey including the study measures was used to obtain data needed to evaluate the relationships among the variables of interest. The participants were 105 family members in Study 1 and 310 family members in Study 2 recruited from nine early childhood intervention programs. Structural equation modeling was used to test the direct and indirect effects of the study variables on parents’ well-being. Outcomes and results Results showed that family-centered practices were directly related to both self-efficacy beliefs and parenting beliefs, and indirectly related to parents’ psychological well-being mediated by belief appraisals. Conclusion and implications The pattern of results was similar to those reported in other studies of family-centered practices. Results indicated that the use of family-centered practices can have positive effects on parent well-being beyond that associated with different types of belief appraisals. 2019-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/4835 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2019.103495 eng Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 94, November 2019, 103495 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © L'autor/a Attribution 4.0 International Elsevier