The Mental Health Profile of Single and Married Women aged 30 to 45 Working at Tabriz Medical Sciences University

Subject Areas : Quarterly Journal of Woman and Society

A.H زینال زاده چینی بلاغ ¹ , KH. اسماعیل پور ² , B. علی پورگوراند ³ , E. بایبوردی ⁴

1 - استادیار گروه پزشکی اجتماعی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریز
2 - استادیار گروه روان شناسی دانشگاه تبریز، تبریز، ایران
3 - (کارشناس ارشد روان شناسی عمومی) کارشناس آموزش بهورزی مرکز بهداشت شهرستان تبریز، تبریز،
4 - دستیار تخصصی پزشکی اجتماعی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریز

Received: 2015-10-14 Accepted : 2015-10-14 Published : 2015-11-22

Keywords: age, marriage, psychopathology,

Abstract :

Increasing the age of marriage among females is one of the changes that occur because of changes in the macro -level society. The phenomenon of increasing age among single females causes damages such as psychiatric disorders. The aim of the present study was to compare psychopathological profile between married and single women. A sample consists of 240 subjects of single and married women; aged 30 to 45 working at health and cure domain of Tabriz medical science university were selected by aimed sampling method. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). There is a significant different between two groups in depression and sensitivity interactive communication. Depression and sensitivity interactive communication in the single group was more than the married group but the difference between two groups was not significant in the other subscale of SCL90. This study significantly showed psychiatric problems such as depression and interpersonal sensitivity so this emphasizes the need for more attention from psychologists and family counselors, and other custodians of family matters to these problems