A comparative study between resilience with life satisfaction in normal and prisoner women

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 MS. in clinical psychology, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

2 Associate professor of psychology and educational sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

3 MS. in sport psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: This study aimed to compare between resilience and life satisfaction in ordinary and prisoner women.
 
Materials and Methods: The statistical population of this causal-comparative study included all of prisoner and normal women in Isfahan in the year of 2016. The sample of this research contains of 280 women (140 prisoners and 140 ordinary women) is who were selected with the convenient sampling. To collect the required data this study from Connor and Davidson resilience (2003) and Diener Life Satisfaction (1985) questionnaire were used. In this research the data were analyzed in descriptive and deductive (Pearson correlation and ANOVA) statistics by using SPSS-21 software.
 
Results: The findings indicated that negative emotions tolerate have significant relationship with life satisfaction in prisoner women, also subscales of control and personal competence have significant relationship with life satisfaction in ordinary women (P<0.05). The results of analysis of variance showed significant difference between the category of personal competence, negative emotions tolerate and positive change acceptance in prisoners and ordinary women (P<0.05). Finally, these findings showed significant difference between the mean score of component life satisfaction between the two groups of prisoners and ordinary women (P<0.05). 
 
Conclusion: It seems that there are significant difference in personal competence, negative emotions tolerate, positive change acceptance and life satisfaction in prisoners and ordinary women.

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Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 19, special issue
May and June 2017
Pages 177-184

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