Comparison of psychological well-being, resilience, and rumination in mothers of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and normal.

This study aimed to compare psychological well-being, resilience, and rumination in mothers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and normal. This study was applied in terms of purpose and comparative in terms of causal method. The statistical population of the present study included all mothers of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and normal. A child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was selected from among the mothers referred to health centers in Arak. Both groups of mothers were selected from 30 people and a total of 60 people and the psychological well-being questionnaires of Reef (1989), Connor and Davidson (2003) resilience, and Hoaxma and Murrow (1991) rumination questionnaires were distributed among them and the collected data analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed that between the two groups of mothers of normal children and mothers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in all components of psychological well-being (in the degree of independence, the degree of mastery of the environment, the degree of personal growth, in the degree of positive relationship with Others differ in the degree of purposefulness in life and the degree of self-acceptance, resilience, and rumination.