Azam Borabadi; Mahdi Motakeffar; Houman Kamranian; Rahim Akrami
Volume 23, Issue 4 , September and October 2016, , Pages 560-569
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Objectives Mental health is the most important factor in nurturing and developing students' potentialities. This study has tried to examine health mental and related factors in newcomer students of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences. Methods This is a descriptive-analytical research performed on ...
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Objectives Mental health is the most important factor in nurturing and developing students' potentialities. This study has tried to examine health mental and related factors in newcomer students of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences. Methods This is a descriptive-analytical research performed on 364 students of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in the academic year of 2012-2013. Health mental Questionnaire (GHQ) was used to gather information and the data were analyzed by software STATA 11. The questions in this study were stated in the form of null hypothesis to be analyzed at the 0.05 level of significance. T-test and ANOVA were used to compare the means.Results The overall prevalence of mental disorders was found to be 11.26% (41 students). The study indicates that, of all disorders assessed, social dysfunction disorder was the most common (prevalence of 32%; 120 individuals), while depressive disorder was of the least prevalent (%2.208; 8 individuals). The maximum prevalence of disorder in female, single, non-local and undergraduate students was respectively 12.75% (32 individuals), 12.62% (33 individuals), 11.97% (31 individuals) and %12.46 (38 individuals). Comparing of the fields of education, the student in clinical laboratory science had better mental health (17.4%) than the ones in other majors.Conclusion Regarding to the obtained results, at the beginning of study, symptoms related to social conflict in students were more common than other symptoms. Confirming the existence of mental disorders in students require more psychological investigation and assessment of students. Thus, providing counseling and psychological services based on the findings are recommended.
Mohammad Javad Asghari Ebrahim Abad; Iman Seyyed Moharrami; Seyed Mahdi Moshirian Farahi; Amirhossein kayzouri; Nasrin Mircholi; Azam Borabadi
Volume 23, Issue 4 , September and October 2016, , Pages 570-577
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Background Emotional maturity and life satisfaction are among the important concepts affecting individual lives that have been studied little. This study aimed to determine the relationship between emotional maturity and life satisfaction of students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2014.Methods ...
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Background Emotional maturity and life satisfaction are among the important concepts affecting individual lives that have been studied little. This study aimed to determine the relationship between emotional maturity and life satisfaction of students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2014.Methods & Materials This study was a descriptive-analytical study. The study population consisted of students of Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Which out of them, 140 were selected by convenience sampling method. Study tools in the current study included questionnaires of Diener life satisfaction, Bhargaqa emotional maturity, and demographic information. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results In this study, mean (SD) of emotional maturity and life satisfaction participants was 27.2(20.9) and 20.31(6.101). There is a significant relationship between emotional maturity and life satisfaction (r=-0.32, P<0.000).Conclusion Strong correlation was observed between emotional maturity and life satisfaction units. Emotional instability could predict life satisfaction and the general emotional maturity could be a good predictor of life satisfaction.