Prediction of Vulnerability against stress on the social support, coping strategies and locus of control

The aim of this study is Prediction of single mother vulnerability against stress based on rate of social support and coping styles, locus of control. For this reason, simple randomly 250 single mother selected among total single mother of shiraz city selected, for data gathering used khodayari farad’s stress symptoms questioners, Lazarus /Folkman coping style questioners, Rater’s locus of control and Duck’s social support questioners multivariate analysis of variance and multiple regression with SPSS were analyzed. Results show that is significantly coping styles varieties (approach / avoidances, expose, social support seeking and social support varieties separately and interactional, can predict changes of dependence varieties (vulnerability against stress Prevent psychological harm to women-headed households, need to be given the resources and social support networks.