ARTICLE INFO

Article Type

Descriptive & Survey Study

Authors

Akbari   B. (*)
Ghasemi Jobaneh   R. (1)
Asadiparvar   M. (2)






(*) General Psychology Department, Humanities Faculty, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
(1) Counseling Department, Psychology & Educational Scineces Faculty, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
(2) General Psychology Department, Humanities Faculty, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

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Address: Psychology Department, Humanities Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Darvazaeh Lakan, Rasht, Iran
Phone: +98 (13) 33472099
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Article History

Received:  April  26, 2017
Accepted:  July 18, 2017
ePublished:  November 6, 2017

BRIEF TEXT


Emotional disturbances and psychological problems caused by war injuries in veterans can affect the well-being of other family members, especially adolescent children [1, 2].

… [3-7]. Research studies show that psychological resilience increases the ability of the individual in difficult and clinical situations [6], so that there is a positive and significant correlation between resilience and quality of life [8]. … [9].Having the children of veterans possessing characteristics and skills such as resilience increases their ability and improves their quality of life positively. One of the factors that can improve psychological resilience and consequently, the quality of life of children of veterans is strategies for coping with stress [10, 11]. … [12, 13]. The findings of a study in Iran have shown that girls with veteran fathers suffer from more psychological symptoms than boys with veteran fathers and that father’s dysfunction causes more vulnerability in girls [14]. … [15, 16]. Therefore, it is necessary to examine these problems in the statistical population of the girls.

Few studies have been conducted on the factors affecting the resilience and quality of life of veterans’s teenage children. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of stress coping strategies in resilience and quality of life of teenage daughters of veterans.

This study is descriptive-correlational.

In this research, in 2015, 320 adolescent girls with veteran father in Rasht city who were studying in the senior high schools were studied.

According to the Kerjesi and Morgan sampling formula, 170 subjects who had the criteria for entering the study were selected using convenience sampling method. Criteria for entering the study were voluntary participation in the research, lack of chronic disease, lack of psychological disorders, and not being child divorce. Regarding the fact that there are two educational districts in Rasht, one school for veterans children was selected from district one and the other school for veterans’ children was selected from district 2 and the research questionnaire was distributed among the students.

Research tools included: Connor-Davidson resilience scale [17], Endler and Parker coping questionnaire [18], and quality of life questionnaire [19]. The research method was that the researcher distributed the questionnaire among the students after obtaining legal permits, referring to the classrooms, and explained to all of them the answers to the questionnaire questions accurately. In order to ensure confidentiality of information, they were told that there was no need to write a name on the questionnaires. All of the participants in the study responded with satisfaction and knowledge to the research questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18 software. The default assumption of the normal distribution of data was confirmed by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Pearson correlation test was used to examine the correlation between variables. Then, multivariate regression analysis was used at a significant level of 0.01 to examine the relationship between stress coping strategies as predictive variable and resilience and quality of life as criterion variable.

The mean score of resilience score had significant correlation with the mean score of problem-oriented (r=0.65), emotional-oriented (r=-0.50), and avoidance (r=0.32) coping style scores. Also, the mean score of life quality had meaningful correlation with problem-solving (r=0.47), emotional-oriented (r=-0.29) and avoidance (r=-0.19) copying style (p=0.01). Coping strategies predicted 48% of resilience variance and 30% of life quality in teenage girls that problem-oriented copy style (β=0.54), and avoidance copying style (β=0.14) positively and emotional-oriented copying style β)-0.28) negatively predicted the resilience. Regarding the life quality, also, problem-solving copying style (β=0.49) and avoidance copying strategy (β=-0.14) could predict the life quality positively and negatively respectively (Table 1; p<0.01).

In this research, the problem-oriented and avoidance coping strategies were positively and emotional-oriented copying style was negatively predicted the resilience. The findings of other studies are consistent with this study [20-23]. Research findings showed that there is a positive correlation between problem-oriented coping strategies and resilience in undergraduate students which leads to psychological well-being. In contrast, emotional coping strategies and resilience have been negatively correlated [22]. Another study also found that problem-oriented coping strategies could positively explain a significant part of the resilience variance in cardiac patients [23]. Also, the problem-oriented coping strategies were positively and emotional-oriented coping strategies and avoidance coping strategies were negatively predicted the life quality. Finding of a study showed that there is a significant relationship between emotional copying strategies with the psychological symptoms and perceived health status in women with cancer that is consistent with the current research. However, no significant relationship was found between problem-oriented copying strategies and quality of life which is not consistent with the present study [24]. Findings of another study which is consistent with the current research showed that women with higher quality of life and mental health use positive copying strategies and less likely to use avoidance strategies when confronted with stress [25]. The findings of another study showed that there is a negative relationship between effective copying strategies with health syndrome and high-risk behaviors in adolescents while there is a direct correlation between avoidance copying strategies and health risk syndrome and high-risk behaviors [26].

It is suggested that similar studies be conducted in population of boys or adolescents involved in other stressful events in order to gain more knowledge about the positive or negative consequences of adopting different copying strategies.

This research was conducted in the statistical population of teenage girls with a veteran father in Rasht city and should be cautious in generalizing the findings to other population.

Stress copying strategies can predict the resilience and quality of life of teenage girls with veteran fathers.

Those respectful students who participated in this research are appreciated.

Non-declared

The necessary licenses were issued for the implementation of questionnaires from the Islamic Azad University of Rasht.

This research was conducted with the personal resources of the authors.

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