The Relationship Between Parental Mental Health and Adolescents of Elementary Schoolchildren in District 17 of Tehran

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

mehrdad mahmoudi ¹ , Seyyed Mahmoud Mir Zamani ² , Rozita Zabihi ³

1 - مدیر مدرسه اموزش و پرورش
2 - Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr Branch, Islamshahr, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr Branch, Islamshahr, Iran

Received: 2018-05-26 Accepted : 2018-08-07 Published : 2018-11-22

Keywords: mental health, Adolescence, Parental anxiety, Parental depression,

Abstract :

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parents' mental health and their male offspring. Method: The research method was correlation and the statistical population was all the male students of the elementary school district of Tehran district 17. The sample size consisted of 375 parents (parents and children) selected by multistage cluster sampling method. Six primary schools of Tehran district of Tehran, 6 schools, and 4 schools of each school and 16 randomly selected from each class. They were The parents' mental health questionnaire (GHQ) was Goldberg (1986) with a reliability of 0.93, and for the adjustment of children, the 37-item questionnaire of the McDonough's (2008) compatibility questionnaire (2008) with a reliability of 0.81 was used. Finding: The results of Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression showed that there is a significant relationship between parent's mental health and their son's consistency. Also, there is a significant negative correlation between parental anxiety and parental depression with their son's consistency and there is a significant positive correlation between physical health and social relation and adjustment of their offspring. Conclusion: The results showed that the mental health of the parents can be predicted by the adjustment of their son's children.