Studies in Humanities
Fatemeh Cheraghian
Abstract
This study aimed to compare spiritual intelligence, loneliness, and mental health of mothers of deaf and non-deaf children in Ilam. The statistical population included all mothers of deaf and normal children in Ilam in the academic year of 2016-2017. Likewise, the study sample included 100 mothers of ...
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This study aimed to compare spiritual intelligence, loneliness, and mental health of mothers of deaf and non-deaf children in Ilam. The statistical population included all mothers of deaf and normal children in Ilam in the academic year of 2016-2017. Likewise, the study sample included 100 mothers of deaf kids selected through the available sampling technique.The data collection instruments used in this study were the King spiritual intelligence questionnaire (SISRI), general health questionnaire (GHQ-28), and the third version of the Loneliness Scale (UCLA). The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 23.The results revealed a significant difference between mothers of deaf and non-deaf kids in Ilam in terms of spiritual intelligence, feeling of loneliness, and mental health (t = 0.2). Based on the obtained results of the proposed research, spiritual intelligence plays the leading role in personal beliefs in various fields, particularly in promoting mental health. Therefore, concerning spiritual intelligence and how it deals with the feeling of loneliness and its explanation can assist mothers in realizing the concept of life and solving problems as well as their own and the other perceptions.
Seyed Teymur Seyedi Asl; Mitra Bakhtiari; Amir Raufi; Vida Yousefi; Mahtab Poursalman; Seyed Mojtaba Ahmadi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , July 2012, , Pages 177-185
Abstract
Infertility could be considered as one of the diseases which cause many psychological problems such as low level of happiness. Beside the direct effects of infertility, other factors could affect the happiness level of the infertile women. This study was conducted to investigate these factors. In this ...
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Infertility could be considered as one of the diseases which cause many psychological problems such as low level of happiness. Beside the direct effects of infertility, other factors could affect the happiness level of the infertile women. This study was conducted to investigate these factors. In this descriptive-analytic study, a total of 130 women who visited our center in Kermanshah, Iran, were selected by using convenience sampling method. Demographic data questionnaire, the Spiritual Intelligence Self‐Report Inventory (sisri-24), Oxford happiness inventory (OHI) and Satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) were used to collect the data. In this study, the mean score for happiness level of the infertile women was found to be 30.98. The results, also, showed that there is a positive significant correlation between happiness with income, wife and the husband’s education level, life satisfaction and spiritual intelligence and its three subscales. Moreover, a significant but negative correlation was found to exist between the length of the infertility period and the happiness level of these women. Finally, the education level factor was found to be the most effective in predicting the happiness level of the infertile women. based on the findings of this study, the happiness level of the infertile women was lower than the rest of the population within the society. Considering the fact that some factors affects the happiness level of these people; therefore, interventions which could target these factors could increase these women’s happiness level.
