Quality of Life of Women Heading Family: the Role of Resiliency, and Family Functioning Based on Mc Master Model

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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1 Institute of Family Research, Shahid Beheshti University

2 Dept. of Education Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

Single mothers who head the families face many problems; and multiple roles for women cause negative effects on their health, satisfaction and quality of life in these women. In this study, quality of life and family functioning and the mediating role of resiliency in these families were investigated. All households headed by woman in Tehran were our statistical population. Due to the type of research, the inventory and its subscales, the sample size was determined as 160 individuals who were selected through the available sampling method. Family Assessment Scale, Quality of Life Inventory and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale were given as a battery of scales. Results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between resiliency with physical health, mental health, environmental health and social relations. There was a significant negative correlation between aspects of quality of life and resiliency with all subscales of the Family Function Device scales. Also mediating role of resiliency in the suggested relationships between general family functioning and physical health, roles with mental health, roles and general functioning with environmental health, and between general functioning and the roles with social relationship were significant. It can be resiliency might be recognized as an effective variable in the relationship between quality of life and family function levels.

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Journal of Family Research
Volume 13, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
December 2017
Pages 407-421

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