A Survey of Cultural and Psychological Factors affecting Mothers’ Psychological well-being: A Case Study of “Empty Nest” in Sari

Subject Areas : Quarterly Journal of Woman and Society

M. T. Iman ¹ (استاد گروه جامعه شناسی دانشگاه شیراز)
F. Aghamiri ² (کارشناس ارشد مطالعات زنان دانشگاه شیراز)

Received: 2015-12-15 Accepted : 2015-12-15 Published : 2012-03-20

Keywords: Psychological well-being, Mass Media, Self-confidence, marital satisfaction, Middle age, Dependency on mother,

Abstract :

This research aimed to investigate cultural and psychological factors affecting the well-being of “empty nest’s” mothers in Sari. This study surveyed 241 women in the center. The research instrument was a questionnaire whose reliability was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha. A use was made of SPSS to run Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis on the data. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between connection with different groups, education, using media, marital satisfaction, self-confidence, and intimacy with other family members, mother-child dependency and the psychological well-being of mothers of the center. Multivariate regression analysis further indicated that mother-child dependency and connection with different groups had the largest direct impact (p=0292) and Smallest impact (p=0.238) on mothers’ psychological well-being respectively  

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