The causal relationship between resilient and psychological needs with mental health with the mediating role of family function in mothers with exceptional children

Subject Areas : social psychology

Maryam Nasiri ¹ , saeed bakhtiar pour ^{2 *}

1 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

Received: 2019-06-25 Accepted : 2020-04-21 Published : 2020-05-21

Keywords: Resilient, psychological needs & family function, mental health,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate The causal relationship among resilient and psychological needs with mental health with the mediating role of family function in mothers with exceptional children. For this purpose, 100 mothers with exceptional children were selected as sample. To collect the data, questionnaires such as mental health SCL-25, Conner & Daveedson resilient, Desi & Ryan psychological needs, & McMaster family function were used. For data analysis, the path analysis method was used. The results showed that there was a direct relationship between resilient with mental health & between psychological needs with family function at p<0.01, & there was a direct relationship between psychological needs with mental health & between resilient with family function was not significant at p>0.05. there was a direct relationship between family function with mental health p≤ 0.05, among resilient with mental health meditore role family function was significant p≤ 0.05, but, there was no direct relationship among psychological needs with mental health meditore role family function p>0.05.