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Transition to adulthood for students with disabilities is of interest both to service providers and families. It is, however, a lengthy and often tortuous journey, and the success with which parents navigate it has implications for them, for their adult children with disabilities, and for providers of services. In this study, we were able to predict maternal responses to the Transition Daily Rewards and Worries Questionnaire (TDRWQ) from maternal personality, measures of well-being and depression, and child adaptive and maladaptive behaviour measured 6 years earlier. Most notably, the personality variable of Extraversion, a global measure of well-being, and both adaptive and maladaptive behaviour of the child with disabilities predicted 32.7% of the variance of a general positive orientation to the future. This stability should be useful in targeting those families who may have trouble with the transition to adulthood.
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