childhood perceived attachment,image of god adaptation process and self-concept in a model of the mental health:a structural equation modeling

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Asieh Nejat ¹ , Fatemeh Shahabizadeh ² , Bagher Ghobari Bonab ³

1 - MA in Clinical Psychology
2 - PhD Islamic Azad University Birjand Branch
3 - PhD University of Tehran

Received: 2015-06-01 Accepted : 2015-06-01 Published : 2013-12-22

Keywords: mental health, Childhood perceived attachment, self-concept, God image,

Abstract :

the aim of this study was to examine the role that childhood perceived attachment plays in God and self-concept adaptation process in order to develop a model for explaining mental health. Four hundred and thirty two students from Birjand university were selected by multistage clustering method. The participants completed the God Image (Mazaheri et al, 2006), the Self Concept (Beck, 1978), the Attachment to Parent (Hazan & Shaver, 1986), and the Mental Health (Goldberg & Hiller, 1979) scales. Structural equation modeling method was used to analyze the data. The developed model supported the adaptation hypothesis based on relation consistency between childhood perceived attachment and the image of God. Self concept as a consequence of adaptation process between the controller and kind image of God, and attachment to father indicated a significant effect on mental health. In contrast to father attachment, attachment to mother directly and indirectly, through adaptation process of the image of God, played a significant role in improving mental health, especially in decreasing depression, which suggested the importance of secure attachment to mother. Thus, not only considering the role of perceived attachment to parents in the adaptation process of image of God is important, but also formation of the adaptation process of image of God and self, play important role in predicting mental health.