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The aim of this study was to investigate marital satisfaction, mental health and stress in culturally employed women and non-employed women in Shiraz in 2006. In the present study, a sample of 200 employed and non-employed women was selected. Enrich questionnaire with 47 questions was used to measure marital satisfaction, GHQ questionnaire with 28 questions was used to measure mental health and 65-point questionnaire was used to assess stress. The results show that there was a positive and significant relationship between marital satisfaction and general health. There is also a negative relationship between marital satisfaction and stress. There was a significant negative relationship between stress and general health. There was no significant difference between marital satisfaction of employed and non-employed women. There was a significant difference between the general health of employed and non-employed women, meaning that the general health of unemployed women was higher than that of employed women. There was also a significant difference between the stress of employed women and nonemployed women, meaning that the general health of unemployed women was higher than that of employed women. There was also a significant difference between the stress of employed and unemployed women, so that the stress of employed women was more than unemployed women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Present research was done with the purpose of comparison of mental health and coping styles of injured women referred to social emergency in 2015 with non-injured. Research methodology is comparison. Sample population includes 152 women (half were injured & half not injured) in Shiraz which were selected by targeted sampling method and with the same age and education. Data was gathered by Goldenberg mental health questionnaire and Parker and Andler comparison method. Analysis and assessment of data were done by using multi variable variance analysis and independent T-test. Findings indicate that mental health of injured women is lesser than non-injured ones. The amount and physical claims, tension and depression in injured women are more than the other group. Furthermore, there is meaningful difference between injured women and the other group in terms of emotionalfocused coping, avoidance-focused coping and problem-focused coping. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the anticipation of parenting styles and family communication patterns for psychological wellbeing in young children of employees of Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht. The study population included 196 young children of employees. In correlational study 100 young children with the mean age 16 were selected through available sampling. Instruments included short form of Reef psychological well-being scale, Alabama parenting style questioner (1997) and family communication patterns of Koerner and Fitzpatrik. Correlation and multiple regressions were used for data analysis. Results showed that psychological well being had positive significant relationship with conformation pattern and negative significant relationship with communication pattern. Also psychological wellbeing had significant relationship with positive parenting and cooperation of father and significant negative relation with physical punishment and authority of parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]