زهره ابارشی

Studies have shown that the mental health status of medical students is more at risk compared to the general population. There are several factors associated with mental health status. One of the related factors seems to be the meaning of life. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between meaning of life and mental health status in students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.

This study is descriptive-analytical and was performed in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences with a sample size of 343. Samples were collected by simple accessible sampling method. Data collection tools included standard questionnaire of meaning of life and short form of mental health questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 26. Descriptive and analytical statistics were also used for analysis. In the present study, all ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interest.

343 students participated in this study, out of whom 147 were male and 195 were female. According to the findings, the items of presence of meaning and search for meaning in life have a significant inverse relationship with anxiety, stress, depression and the total score of mental health status (P<0.01).

Considering the importance of the meaning of life in the mental health status of students, more importance should be given to psychotherapy systems based on the concept of meaning.

The meaning of life has become one of the most important issues of the present age. The meaning of life refers to the main purpose and concept of each person's life and consists of the aspects of the existence of meaning and the search for meaning. The meaning of life has a vital role against stress and is related to the mental health of people. Students are one of the groups that are vulnerable to stress, so this study was conducted with the aim of determining the status of the meaning of life and its related factors among students.

This cross-sectional study was conducted among 163 students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. The samples were collected using the Internet-based method. The data collection tool was the standard questionnaire on the meaning of life and demographic information. The data were analyzed in SPSS version 26 using descriptive and analytical statistics.

No statistically significant association was observed between the overall score of the meaning of life questionnaire and the score of the components of existence and search for meaning with different classes of gender, marital status, level of education, the field of study, economic status and the number of siblings (P>0.05). . However, the overall score of the meaning of life questionnaire (P=0.023) and the existence of meaning component (P=0.013) had a statistically significant difference between different age groups. Also, a positive and significant correlation was observed between the existence of meaning and the search for meaning (p<0.001, r=0.361).

According to the findings, the relationship between the meaning of life and demographic information is different in different cultures, so in each culture, their relationship should be measured separately.

While U-shaped relationship bet-ween marital satisfaction and family life cycle has been strongly supported, our review of the related literature reveals some significant errors in the definition of marital satisfaction and the statistical data analysis in this regard. The present study addresses the main shortcomings and critically reviews the relevant literature. The primary goal is to examine the trend of changes in marital satisfaction and related dimensions across family life cycle (seven stages).209 married individuals were cones-cutively sampled through approaching them in public gathering places. 30 married individuals (except for empty nest, (n=29) were allocated to each life cycle stage. Demographics form and ENRICH scale for marital satisfaction were then completed by the partic-ipants. The trend analysis of each dimension demonstrates a curvilinear relationship between some dimensions (Marital Satisfaction, Sexual Relation-ship, Family and Friends, Religious Orientation) and the life cycle.Findings are discussed considering cli-nical and research implications.

One of the most effective factors on child psychosocial development is the relationship between mother and child which is affected by parental self-efficacy. The aim of study was to investigate whether Psychosocial Child Development training program can increase positive mother-child relationship and parental self-efficacy. The method of this study was semi-trail with control group. primary samples were 43 mothers of children under three that were selected voluntarily from Imam reza, Qa’em and Razavi Kindergartens in Mashhad, Iran.and then they were voluntarily put in the experimental and control group. In the posttest stage, the samples of the study decreased to 30 subjects. Mothers filled out child-parent relationship and parental self-efficacy questionnaires in pretest, posttest and follow-up stages. Then the Data was analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance. Results showed that Intervention increased parental self-efficacy significantly, but Positive mother-child relationship didn’t increase. In the domains of relationship, dependency increased but other domains such as conflict and closeness didn’t increase significantly. It seems that in spite of increasing of knowledge and parental self-efficacy, mother-child relationship was affected by other factors such as shortage of time for affecting, insufficient exercises, small sample and other uncontrolled factors.

The object of this research was to investigate the «quality of life» and relation to demographic characteristics in elderly peopel of Tehran. the method of this research was a descriptive- correlation. In this research 243 of elder were selected with accessible sampling from people who referred to elder centers, cultural centers, and public parks in deferent districts of Tehran. The instruments were “demographic characteristics” and “quality of life questionnaire” (WHOQOL-BREF). in order to analyze data, descriptive statistics and stepwise regression were used. In this research 134 male and 109 female were participated and their mean age was 71/41. Results of regression showed that in physical health, mental health and social relationships, good family relations was a positive predictor and in sequence physical illness, mental illness and weak family relations were predictors of decreasing scores. In environment domain, good economic status was a predictive factor of increasing scores and weak family relations was predictor ofdecreasing scores. according to data it’s clarified that family relations isone of the most effective factors on various domains in quality of life.