Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (Online) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (Print) Volume 9, Issue 2, April- June, 2021 DIP: 18.01.038.20210902, DOI: 10.25215.0902.038 http://www.ijip.in © 2021, Hashir Ahammed A V; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Quality of Life, Parental Stress & Perceived Social Support Among Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Hashir Ahammed A V 1 * ABSTRACT This Research study aims to investigate the Quality of life, Parental stress and Perceived social support among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. This was Ex-post facto research design followed by between group research designs would be utilized in studying the relationship between the Quality of life, Parental stress and Perceived social support among parents of children with autistic disorder and to understand the differences between the parents on psychological attributes. The sample of the study consists of 40 parents. The participants enrolled in the study included 40 biological parents (23 fathers; 17 mothers) those who are residing in Bangalore, India. Quality of life was determined using WHOQOL-BREF; Parental stress was determined using Parental Stress Scale of Berry and Jones; Perceived social support was determined using Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) of Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley. The Independent t-test results revealed there is no significant difference on the mean scores of quality of life between fathers and mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder, that there is no significant difference on the mean scores of parental stress between fathers and mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder, and also there is a significant difference on the mean scores of perceived social support between fathers and mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Pearson product moment correlation results revealed that there is highly significant negative correlation between quality of life and parental stress among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder, there is a highly significant positive correlation quality of life and perceived social support among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. Keywords: Autism, Quality of life, Parental stress, Perceived social support utism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of life-long neurodevelopment conditions characterised by significant deficits in the social and communication domains and by restrictive, repetitive and ritualistic patterns of behaviour, interests or activities American Psychiatric Association (APA), (2013). In recent years, there has been a marked increase in ASD prevalence in India, Approx. 1 in 500 or 0.20% or more than 2,160,000 people are diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder (Barua & Tamara, 2018). The increasing levels of ASD stress the need for early identification of the disorder and for targeted interventions in order to improve children’s prognosis. Treatment for ASD typically 1 Consultant Psychologist, Human Care Foundation, Kozhikode, India *Corresponding Author Received: March 10, 2021; Revision Received: April 10, 2021; Accepted: May 03, 2021 A