Predicting Resilience and Mental Health of Adolescents Based On Parents' Lifestyle

Shohre Jafari, Maryam Nazarloo, S. Elahe Hosseini, Zahra Shirvani

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The aim of this study was to predict resilience and mental health of adolescents based on parents' lifestyle. The statistical population of this study is all male students of the first year of high school in district one of Tehran who was studying in the academic year of 2018. To select the sample using multi-stage cluster sampling method and based on Morgan table, 360 people were selected and students answered the Goldberg Mental Health Questionnaire and Connor, Davidson and their parents to the Miller and Smith Lifestyle Questionnaires. The obtained data were analyzed using simultaneous regression method. The findings of the study were that the best predictor of resilience and mental health of adolescents is related to parents' lifestyle. According to the results of the present study and also the key and pivotal role of lifestyle in predicting resilience and mental health of adolescents, training, treatment and effectiveness courses to improve the quality of life of families and to increase the level of resilience and mental health of adolescents it is possible.

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