Sadegheh Aeinehvand; Ali Delavar; Afsaneh Mozaffari; Nasim Majidi Ghahroodi
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of personality traits in quality of life of female-headed households. The method of this research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection, it is a descriptive survey. The statistical population in this study is women heads of ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of personality traits in quality of life of female-headed households. The method of this research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection, it is a descriptive survey. The statistical population in this study is women heads of households referred to Entrepreneurship Centers of Tehran Municipality who visited in spring. About 4,400 people are reported to be members of the center. Therefore, 352 people who were selected by proportional stratified sampling method. The main tool for data collection in this research is questionnaire. The validity of this questionnaire was confirmed by validity (experts' approval) and construct validity (confirmatory factor analysis test). The reliability of the questionnaire was also confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Questionnaire data were analyzed using LISREL software. The normality of the data from the questionnaire was confirmed by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Then, the construct validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Finally, regression analysis revealed that personality traits in general had a significant effect on the quality of life of female-headed households. Also, all five dimensions of personality traits (order of magnitude), such as empathy, agreeableness, neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness, have a direct and significant effect on the quality of life of female-headed households.
zohreh ghorbani; mahmood golzari
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Optimism is one of the personality traits which have an important role in preventing depression. With respect to high prevalence of depression in adolescence and with taking the important role of parents in development of their children personality traits, the aim of this research was to study the relationship ...
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Optimism is one of the personality traits which have an important role in preventing depression. With respect to high prevalence of depression in adolescence and with taking the important role of parents in development of their children personality traits, the aim of this research was to study the relationship between parents' personality traits and level of optimism and level of optimism of their adolescent children . The sample included 384 high school students (203 girls and 181 boys) in Tehran city during the academic year of 1386-1387 with their parents. The participants completed the revised life orientation test (Carver and Scheier, 1994) and the short form of personality traits questionnaire (Mc. Crea and Costa, 1992). The results indicate that there is a positive and meaningful relation between parents' level of optimism and their adolescent children level of optimism. Findings also indicate that there is a meaningful relation between some of parents' personality traits such as: fathers' extraversion, fathers' neuroticism, mothers' neuroticism, mothers agreeableness , fathers' agreeableness, and fathers' consciousness' and children level of optimism. But no meaningful relation were found between mothers extraversion, mothers openness, fathers openness and mothers consciousness' and children level of optimism. There was also no meaningful difference between girls and boys level of optimism
