Table 7.

Categories and subcategories of self-forgiveness in relation to parenting, and its facilitators and barriers for both groups of parents

Parents of Children with ASD (n = 143)			Parents of Neurotypical Children (n = 135)
Self-forgiveness	CATEGORY	SUBCATEGORY	CATEGORY	SUBCATEGORY
	Factors Related to the Parent	Parent Behaving Inappropriately Toward the Child	Factors Related to the Parent	Parent Behaving Inappropriately Toward the Child
		Parenting Practices		Parenting Practices
		Own Person		Self-forgiveness to Themselves
	Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Factors	Mother’s Behavior during Pregnancy	Factors Related to the Child	Insufficiently Close Attachment with
		Vaccination		Early Separation from the Child
		Birth
	Need for Self-forgiveness		Something to forgive but not specified
	Other	Irreversibility of ASD	Other	Not Providing the Ideal Family
		Financial Stability		Family’s Financial Stability
Facilitators	SUBCATEGORY		SUBCATEGORY
	Acceptance		Acceptance
	Social Support		Corrective Behavior
	Religious Belief		Hope
	Love from the Child		Child’s Progress
	Corrective Behavior		Religious Belief
	Rationalization		Social Support
	Time		Forgiveness from Others
	Other		Other
Barriers	Individual Characteristics		Individual Characteristics
	Past		Inability to Change the Situation
	Feelings of Guilt		Guilty Feelings
	Exhaustion/Fatigue		Repeating the Same Mistakes
	Other		Other