Considering the rate symptoms of Depression of the adolescents and its relation with the marital satisfaction of their mothers in township of Tuyserkan in 2004

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The present research is a kind of descriptive- analytic research that is carried out for considering the rate symptoms of depression of the youngsters and its relation with the marital satisfaction of their mothers in township of Tuyserkan in 2004.
Methods and Materials: The society of this research includes all the students studying in daily, public high schools of township of Tuyserkan which their mothers who were under the condition of the criteria of this research of whom 240 were selected as the sample by the procedurer of several-stage sampling. The tools of collecting the entries of this research was a questionnaire, set in two parts including a questionnaire comprised of 21 questions Beck Depression Inventory and a questionnaire of marital satisfaction ENRICH.
Results: The results show that the depression level among youngsters was %74.5, the rate of marital dissatisfaction among mothers was %2.8. Statistically, there was a meaningful difference between the rate symptoms of depression of youngsters and the rate of their mothers` marital satisfaction (p<0/001) moreover; there was a meaningful relation between some of characters of the youngsters and the rate of their depression like the gender and number of their sister and borthers. Also the findings showed that there is a meaningful relation between the rate of marital satisfaction of mothers and some of their characters like their education level, the education level of husbands, their age and age of their husbands. The findings show that there is a meaningful relation between the rate of depression of youngsters and some of their mothers` characters like the education level of mothers, the education level of fathers and age of mothers.
Conclusion: The result of the research verifies the necessity of executing regular & effective educational programs for improving the level of understanding of the people in the society specially the parents of youngster in field of depression of youngsters and its relation with the marital satisfaction of parents.

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