Adolescents Corona Anxiety: The Relationship between Character Strengths and Family Social Support

Khosrojerdi, Zahra; Pakdaman, Shahla

doi:10.30473/ijohp.2022.57184.1162

Document Type : research

Authors

zahra khosrojerdi ¹
shahla pakdaman ²

¹ PhD student in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

² associate professor in psychology at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30473/ijohp.2022.57184.1162

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine adolescent coronary anxiety in the relationship between character strengths and family social support.
Method: The research method was correlational and the statistical population including 156 ninth and tenth grade students were selected by non-random sampling method (available) from District 4 of Tehran. Students responded to the Values in Action inventory of strength Scale of Park and Peterson (2006), Perceived Social Support- Family Scale of the Procidano & Heller (1983), and the Corona Disease Anxiety Scale of Alipour, Ghadami, Alipour, and Abdollahzadeh (2020).
Results: The results of multiple regression analysis showed that the predicting of corona mental anxiety is significant with the strengths of judgement, love of learning, honesty, zest, kindness, teamwork, forgiveness, and family social support. Predicting Corona physical anxiety, creativity, love of learning, bravery, kindness, social intelligence, teamwork, humility, hope and spirituality are significant. Love for learning, honesty, forgiveness, humility, hope, spirituality, and family social support are significant in predicting overall corona anxiety (P˂ 0.05).
Conclusions: The results showed that character strengths and social support family have an effective role in reducing corona anxiety and can provide the necessary support for adolescents in stressful situations.

Keywords

Article Title [Persian]

اضطراب کرونای نوجوانان: ارتباط بین توانمندی های منش و حمایت اجتماعی خانواده

Authors [Persian]

زهرا خسروجردی ¹
شهلا پاکدامن ²

¹ دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی تربیتی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران

² دانشیار روانشناسی دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران

Abstract [Persian]

هدف:هدف پژوهش تعیین اضطراب کرونا نوجوان در رابطه بین توانمندی‌های منش و حمایت اجتماعی خانواده است.
روش: روش پژوهش همسبتگی و جامعه آماری شامل 156 دانش‌آموز پایه نهم و دهم با روش نمونه‌گیری غیرتصادفی (دردسترس) از منطقه 4 تهران انتخاب شدند. دانش‌آموزان به سیاهه ارزش‌ها در عمل از مقیاس توانمندی‌های نوجوانان پارک و پیترسون (2006)، حمایت اجتماعی خانواده پروسیدانو و هلر (1983) و اضطراب بیماری کرونا علی‌پور، قدمی، علی‌پور و عبداله‌زاده (1399) پاسخ دادند.
نتیجه: نتایج تحلیل رگرسیون چندگانه نشان داد پیش‌بینی اضطراب روانی کرونا با توانمندی‌ها آزاداندیشی، عشق‌ به یادگیری، یکپارچگی، سرزندگی، مهربانی، کارگروهی، بخشش و حمایت اجتماعی خانواده معنادار است. پیش‌بینی اضطراب جسمی کرونا، توانمندی خلاقیت، عشق به یادگیری، شهامت، مهربانی، هوش اجتماعی، کارگروهی، تواضع و فروتنی، امید و معنویت معنادار است و در پیش‌بینی اضطراب کلی کرونا، عشق به یادگیری، یکپارچگی، بخشش، فروتنی، امید، معنویت و حمایت اجتماعی خانواده معنادار (05/0 ˂P) است.
نتیجه‌گیری: نتایج نشان داد توانمندی‌های منش و حمایت اجتماعی خانواده بر کاهش اضطراب کرونا نقش موثری دارند و در شرایط استرس‌زا برای نوجوانان می‌توانند پشتیبانی و حمایت لازم را فراهم سازند.

Keywords [Persian]

اضطراب کرونا
توانمندی‌های منش
حمایت اجتماعی خانواده
نوجوانان
سلامت

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Adolescents Corona Anxiety: The Relationship between Character Strengths and Family Social Support

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Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 11March 2022Pages 49-56

Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 11
March 2022
Pages 49-56