Compilation of a Psychological Well-being Model for Adolescents with obsessive beliefs based on Defensive Styles, Ego Identity Status and Parent-Child Relationship

Subject Areas : Psychology

Reza Shahla ¹ , Roya Kochakentezar ² , Mahdieh Salehi ³ , Afsaneh Ghanbaripanah ⁴

1 - PhD in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-11-22 Accepted : 2022-05-07 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: parent-child relationship, ego identity, defensive styles, psychological well-being, obsessive beliefs,

Abstract :

To achieve the different dimensions of mental health, communities need to provide the ideal of self-actualization and excellence for their members. Psychological well-being is an effort to grow and develop in order to realize the potential of a person in a variety of dimensions, such as autonomy, personal growth, purposefulness in life, mastery of the environment, positive relationship with others, and self-acceptance, all rooted in the development of personality. According to the above-mentioned articles, this research aimed to develop a psychological well-being model for adolescents with social anxiety based on defensive styles, Ego identity status, and parent-child relationship. This research was a correlational study. The statistical population of this study was all the boy sophomores in Tehran in 2017-2018. The sample also included 250 social anxiety students with a multistage cluster sampling method and purposefully selected. The criterions of entering this research included: informed consent, age range (15-18 years) and outcomes of the project included: reluctance to continue cooperation and lack of completion of the questionnaires by participants. The participants completed the Defense Style Questionnaire, the Ryff Scale of Psychological Well-Being, the Ego Identity Process Questionnaire, the Parent-Child Rating Scale and the obsessive beliefs questionnaire. We used structural equations analysis to examine the data. All stages of analysis were performed using SPSS (v.24) and AMOS (v.24) software packages. According to the findings, the parent-adolescent relationship indirectly and negatively affects psychological well-being through defense mechanisms (p≥0.05). The parent-adolescent relationship also directly and indirectly predicts identity.