Comparison of Spiritual Health and Psychological Helplessness in Adolescent Girls from Divorced and Normal Families in Shiraz
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zahra Ghaedian
1
,
soode dashtiane
2
,
Nasir Dastan
3
1 -
2 - Ph.D. Student of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Iran. (Corresponding Author)
3 - PH.D in counseling, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz.
Keywords: Spiritual health, Psychological helplessness, Adolescent, Divorce.,
Abstract :
This research aims to compare spiritual health and psychological helplessness in adolescent girls from divorced and nuclear families. The descriptive research method was of a comparative causal type. The statistical population of this research includes all teenage girls in the first secondary school of Shiraz City. There are 80 people in the statistical sample population, 40 girls whose parents are divorced and 40 girls whose parents are not divorced. A statical sample was determined using cluster sampling. Palotzin and Ellison's spiritual health questionnaires and depression, stress, and anxiety questionnaire (DASS-21) were used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed at two levels (descriptive statistics and inferential statistics). Means and standard deviations were used for descriptive statistics and univariate analysis of variance for inferential statistics. The results showed a significant difference between spiritual health and psychological helplessness in teenage girls from divorced and nuclear families; Spiritual health is higher among teenagers whose parents are not divorced. Also, psychological helplessness is more among teenagers whose parents are divorced.
