Comparison of quality of life in abused children and normal

Social environment affects quality of life and causes physical and psychological disorders in children. Aim of this study was comparing the quality of life in abused and normal children by controlling roles of social anxiety، mood and feeling. The research design was non- experimental research. Participants were 60 children. With using available sampling method 30 abused children were selected from Center for Treatment of Social and Individual Crises and a Center of Street Children in Semnan in 2012. They were matched with 30 normal children by age and gender. They completed Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory، Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory and Short Mood and Feeling Questionnaire for Children. The results showed by controlling social phobia، quality of life in physical dimension was different between two groups. By controlling simultaneous changes of children''s mood/feeling on emotional and social dimensions، and also، by controlling social anxiety on emotional and school dimensions، difference of quality of life in these dimensions between two groups weren''t significant statistically. Interventions should focus on social anxiety and mood/feeling for improving the quality of life in emotional dimension، while these interventions should focus on mood/feeling for improving social quality of life and should focus on social anxiety to improve school dimension