Cognitive impairments and adaptive functions in mental retardation children become stressors for parents, because in their care need special treatment. These conditions have an impact on parents 'acceptance of the child and on the parents' self-esteem, which can ultimately cause parental stress. The research objective is to analyze the effects of parental self-esteem as a mediating factor between parental acceptance of parental stress in caring for children with mental retardation. This study

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... ed a correlation analytic design with a cross sectional approach, using purposive sampling with a total of 43 respondents. The research