Comparison of Affective Well-being and Psychological and Psychological capital in families with and without psychotic

Ebrahimzadeh, Malek and Narimani, Mohammad and Abolghasemi, Abbas (2015) Comparison of Affective Well-being and Psychological and Psychological capital in families with and without psychotic. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

Text (مقایسه بهزیستی عاطفی ، روان شناختی و سرمایه روانشناختی در خانواده های با و بدون بیمار روانی) Malek Ebrahimzadeh.pdf Download (394kB)

Abstract

This research aims to compare emotional well-being, psychological well-being, and psychological capital in the families with or without mental patients. It is an applied research in terms of purpose and, regarding the data collection method, is a descriptive causal-comparative research. The sample included 80 parents that were selected using convenience sampling from the families residing in the city of Khodafarin, Azarbayjan-e-Sharghi Province (40 parents with at least one child suffering from a mental illness and 40 parents without any mental patients).The questionnaires used were: 1) Keys’questionnaire of personal well-being (subscale of emotional well-being), 2) Ryff’s questionnaire of psychological well-being, and 3) Luthans’ questionnaire of psychological capital. Multivariate variance analysis was appliedto test the research hypothesis. The results of data analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the two study groups in terms of emotional well-being, psychological well-being, and psychological capital (at P<0.01, F=575.134). Also, the results showed that there was a significant difference between the families with or without mental patients in terms of emotional well-being (at P<0.01, F=538.666), psychological well-being (at P<0.01, F=139.884), autonomy (P<0.01, F=114.529), personal development (P<0.01, F=94.590), environmental dominance (P<0.01, F=118.471), positive relations with others (P<0.01, F=141.196), leading a purposeful life (P<0.01, F=98.898), sense of self in the life (P<0.01, F=97.191), psychological capital (P<0.01, F=1002.134), self-efficacy (P<0.01, F=526.637), endurance(P<0.01, F=632.090),hope (P<0.01, F=478.629), optimism (P<0.01, F=503.776). Therefore, regarding the mean difference of the two groups we can conclude thatemotional well-being, psychological well-being, and psychological capital in the families without mental patients are higher than the families with offspring suffering from a mental illness.

Actions (login required)

View Item