Comparison of social support, coping and family emotional climate and non-sponsored female-headed households in Shiraz

The aims of paper was comparison of social support, coping and family emotional climate and non-sponsored female-headed households in Shiraz. Research method was causal-comparative that study sample consisted of 107 households and 107 non-sponsored households. The instrument used for data collection were includes social support scale Phillips (PSSI), Coping Inventory For Stressful Situation (CISS) and family emotional climate questionnaire Bern (BFECQ), respectively. Descriptive and explanation statistical methods were used,  including multivariate analysis of variance (MANVOA) and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Analyzes were performed using software (SPSS) version 21 for data analysis.   Findings showed that except emotional coping style,  the scores mean of women heads of household under is higher the of women non-sponsored households.    Findings showed that are different in between sponsored female-headed households and non-sponsored households in Shiraz in terms of subscales of social support (family, friends and others support), subscales of coping styles (task oriented, emotion oriented, avoiding oriented coping) and emotional family climate (father-son and mother-child climate) at level of p < 0/001. When women heads of households, institutions sponsored the study says, comfort and become more relaxed, less attachment and can spend more warmth and intimacy of their family and their children.