Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping Styles

<strong>Background:</strong> Adolescence is a crucial stage of life during which a person faces primary cognitive and structural changes. <strong>Objectives:</strong> In this study, we seek to investigate the relationship between resilience and coping styles with mental healt...

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Main Authors: Saeed Rajabi, Marzieh Assareh, Esmaeil Shiri, Fatemeh Keshvari, Farhang Mikaieli hoor, Sobhan Pour Nikdast
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Language:English
Published: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2014-04-01
Series:International Journal of School Health
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Online Access:http://intjsh.sums.ac.ir/article_45023_686f87cbd20db26a6ff3fa40ad191e19.pdf
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author Saeed Rajabi
Marzieh Assareh
Esmaeil Shiri
Fatemeh Keshvari
Farhang Mikaieli hoor
Sobhan Pour Nikdast
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description <strong>Background:</strong> Adolescence is a crucial stage of life during which a person faces primary cognitive and structural changes. <strong>Objectives:</strong> In this study, we seek to investigate the relationship between resilience and coping styles with mental health in first grade high school students from Ardabil, Iran. <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> We used a multistage random sampling method to select 100 first grade high school students from Ardabil. The participants were asked to complete the Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Coping style questionnaire and the 28 item General Health questionnaire. Pearson correlation and multiple regressions were performed for data analysis. <strong>Results:</strong> There was a significant statistical relationship between resilience and coping styles with mental health (p < 0.01). In addition, the findings demonstrated that resilience and problem-oriented coping might significantly predict the mental health of adolescents. These findings might prove that resilience could be one of the best predictors of mental health in this study's target group of students. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> Findings of this study imply the crucial role of resilience and coping styles in mental health of adolescents. In other words, relationship between mental health and coping styles is taken into consideration due to the mediating effect of coping on perception and reaction towards environmental stress pressures. Schools play a key role in shaping the future of adolescents. In Iran, the youth constitute a significantly huge percent of our society, therefore attempts to enhance mental health in adolescents is one of the most important duties of any educational organization, particularly schools.
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spelling doaj.art-aa6b8edb36634090810f645caa5534fa2022-12-22T00:13:51ZengShiraz University of Medical SciencesInternational Journal of School Health2345-51522383-12192014-04-01111510.17795/intjsh-1985545023Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping StylesSaeed Rajabi0Marzieh Assareh1Esmaeil Shiri2Fatemeh Keshvari3Farhang Mikaieli hoor4Sobhan Pour Nikdast5Department of Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, IR IranDepartment of Psychiatry, Children and Adolescent Bahonar Hospital, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, IR IranDepartment of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IR IranInstitute for Cognitive and Brain sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IR IranDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IR.IranDepartment of Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, IR Iran<strong>Background:</strong> Adolescence is a crucial stage of life during which a person faces primary cognitive and structural changes. <strong>Objectives:</strong> In this study, we seek to investigate the relationship between resilience and coping styles with mental health in first grade high school students from Ardabil, Iran. <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> We used a multistage random sampling method to select 100 first grade high school students from Ardabil. The participants were asked to complete the Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Coping style questionnaire and the 28 item General Health questionnaire. Pearson correlation and multiple regressions were performed for data analysis. <strong>Results:</strong> There was a significant statistical relationship between resilience and coping styles with mental health (p < 0.01). In addition, the findings demonstrated that resilience and problem-oriented coping might significantly predict the mental health of adolescents. These findings might prove that resilience could be one of the best predictors of mental health in this study's target group of students. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> Findings of this study imply the crucial role of resilience and coping styles in mental health of adolescents. In other words, relationship between mental health and coping styles is taken into consideration due to the mediating effect of coping on perception and reaction towards environmental stress pressures. Schools play a key role in shaping the future of adolescents. In Iran, the youth constitute a significantly huge percent of our society, therefore attempts to enhance mental health in adolescents is one of the most important duties of any educational organization, particularly schools.http://intjsh.sums.ac.ir/article_45023_686f87cbd20db26a6ff3fa40ad191e19.pdfresiliencemental healthadolescent
spellingShingle Saeed Rajabi
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Esmaeil Shiri
Fatemeh Keshvari
Farhang Mikaieli hoor
Sobhan Pour Nikdast
Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping Styles
International Journal of School Health
resilience
mental health
adolescent
title Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping Styles
title_full Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping Styles
title_fullStr Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping Styles
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping Styles
title_short Evaluation of Students' Mental Health and Relation to Resilience and Copping Styles
title_sort evaluation of students mental health and relation to resilience and copping styles
topic resilience
mental health
adolescent
url http://intjsh.sums.ac.ir/article_45023_686f87cbd20db26a6ff3fa40ad191e19.pdf
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