The Role of Mothers' Marital Satisfaction on Predicting Anxiety and Self- Concept of Female Adolescents

Subject Areas : Educational

Mohammad Ehsan Taghizadeh ¹ , Narges Mohammadi ²

1 - استادیار گروه روان‌شناسی، دانشگاه پیام‌ نور، تهران، ایران
2 - دانشجوی دکتری روان‌شناسی، مرکز تحقیقات روان‌تنی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2014-03-21

Keywords: Anxiety, self–concept, marital satisfaction, female adolescents,

Abstract :

 The aim of this study was to investigate the role of mothers' marital satisfaction on the prediction of self-concept and anxiety of female adolescents. The study was a descriptive and correlation research. The population of the study consisted of all female students in the third grade of guidance schools of Tehran in the academic year 2011-2012 (1390-91s.c.). 144 students of fourth education region in Tehran were selected through cluster random sampling. Research instruments included Cattell's Anxiety Questionnaire (1960), Carl Rogers’ Self-concept Questionnaire (1957) and short form of ENRICH Marital inventory (Olson, 1989).The data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression analysis. The results of the study indicated that mothers' marital satisfaction, communication, conflict resolution and idealistic distortion can predict anxiety in female adolescents (P < 0.05). Also, mothers' marital satisfaction (P < 0.01), communication (P < 0.05), conflict resolution (P < 0.05), and idealistic distortion (P < 0.01) can predict self-concept in female adolescents. Moreover, subscales of Marital satisfaction can predict 25% of variation in anxiety and 33% of variation in self-concept of female adolescents (P < 0.01). In sum, the results of the study indicate that mothers' marital satisfaction has a role in predicting anxiety and self-concept of female adolescents. 

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