Contribution of Gender Role Conflict in Prediction of Students General Health

Subject Areas : Educational

Nader Hajloo ¹ , Roghayyeh Azizi ² , Khadijeh Moghaddasi ³

1 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی
2 - دانشجوی کارشناس ارشد روان‌شناسی دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی
3 - دانشجوی کارشناس ارشد روان‌شناسی دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2017-10-17

Keywords: psychological health, gender role conflict, Students,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to predict students’ psychological health based on their gender role conflict. The type of study was descriptive- correlation. Participants were 200 male students of Mohaghegh Ardabili University which were selected by multi stage cluster sampling method. The Scale of Gender Role Conflict (Wester et al., 2012) and Psychological Health Scale (Goldberg and Hillier, 1979) were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed using multivariate regression analysis. The results showed that components of success, power, competition, limited affectivity, and conflict between work and family relationship were effective on anxiety and insomnia components, social dysfunction and depression (P < 0.01), but not on somatization. Also, 64% of the variance in students general health is explained by gender role conflict. Based on these results, individuals with less gender role conflict have better and greater psychological health.

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