Study of Psychological Distress among Iranian Community

Subject Areas : Health

Mohsen Niazi ¹ , Ali Farhadian ² , Mahdiyeh Kazemian ³ , Fatemeh Khoshbayani Arani ⁴

1 - Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Kashan University, [e-mail]
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management, Kashan University, (corresponding author) [e-mail]
3 - Research Master's student, Faculty of Humanities, Kashan University, [e-mail]
4 - PhD research student, Faculty of Humanities, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran

Received: 2023-07-14 Accepted : 2023-10-28 Published : 2023-06-24

Keywords: Anxiety, Depression, Model designing Psychological distress, Stress,

Abstract :

Abstract Introduction: Some mental health practitioners use the term psychological distress to describe various symptoms and experiences in a person's inner life that are usually disturbing, confusing, or unusual. And it is used to describe a person with a combination of symptoms of depression, anxiety and, stress. Psychological distress can severely destroy interpersonal relationships, because these people raise more tension while interacting with their spouses, children, and friends. The current research aims to examine the conducted studies on psychological distress using the qualitative meta-inductive approach. Research methods: This method includes seven steps that systematically evaluate and analyze the findings of previous studies. Therefore, the results of previous researches have been collected and analyzed from domestic references during the years 2016 to 2022. In the current research, we studied 73 valid scientific papers to design a model of affected factors by psychological distress. We excluded some of the papers due to their incompatibility with the dimensions of psychological distress. Findings: After an initial review, the results led to 102 codes. After exploring the sub-fields, 16 main fields were obtained, which are: background variables, emotions, neurotic states, disorders, family status, quality of couple relationships, diseases, medical services, Covid-19, religious attitudes, and social, cultural, educational and economic status, drug abuse, and control impulses. Also, one can highlight the most notable components based on their repetition: anxiety, depression, stress, domestic violence, various diseases, personality disorder, etc. Indeed, nowadays life is stressful; and due to various social, economic reasons and various physical and mental illnesses, people suffer from psychological distress. Conclusion: Psychological distress can severely destroy interpersonal relationships because these people experience more tension with those around them.

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