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Investigating Happiness and its Related Factors in Married Women Referred to Health Centers of Shahroud City

BACKGROUND: Happiness is one of the most important factors affecting women's mental health. Several factors contribute to happiness in different societies. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the level of happiness in married women and its related factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

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Autores principales: Sooky, Zahra, Keramat, Afsaneh, Sharifi, Khadijeh, Dehghani, Mohsen, Tagharrobi, Zahra, Taebi, Mahboubeh, Sadat, Zohreh
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Publicado: Kowsar 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25593738
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.22211
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author Sooky, Zahra
Keramat, Afsaneh
Sharifi, Khadijeh
Dehghani, Mohsen
Tagharrobi, Zahra
Taebi, Mahboubeh
Sadat, Zohreh
author_facet Sooky, Zahra
Keramat, Afsaneh
Sharifi, Khadijeh
Dehghani, Mohsen
Tagharrobi, Zahra
Taebi, Mahboubeh
Sadat, Zohreh
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description BACKGROUND: Happiness is one of the most important factors affecting women's mental health. Several factors contribute to happiness in different societies. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the level of happiness in married women and its related factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study with stratified sampling proportional to different age groups of married women in selected health centers (based on socioeconomic status). Subjects were 379 married women. The Oxford Happiness Inventory (scale: 0-87) was used to measure happiness. The Enrich Marital Satisfaction Inventory including 47 questions (scale: 47-235) and demographic information questionnaires were also used. Descriptive statistics, correlation, T-test, One-way ANOVA and Regression were used to analyze data. RESULTS: The mean of happiness was 45.11 ± 14.40. Marital satisfaction was 164.68 ± 28.33 and 64% of the participants had a relative marital satisfaction. Univariate analysis of happiness showed significant effects of husband and wife education, husband job, economic status, stress in past six months, marital satisfaction and having social activates, but was not statistically significant for other factors (P < 0.05). Adjusting for the confounding effect of other variables, multiple linear regressions showed significant association of happiness with marital satisfaction, economic status and social activity. CONCLUSIONS: Regarding lower level of happiness of married women in Shahroud comparing to some other studies in Iran and abroad, leisure time programs, training life skills especially stress management skills, increasing marital satisfaction and improving economic status should be considered.
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spelling pubmed-42706502015-01-15 Investigating Happiness and its Related Factors in Married Women Referred to Health Centers of Shahroud City Sooky, Zahra Keramat, Afsaneh Sharifi, Khadijeh Dehghani, Mohsen Tagharrobi, Zahra Taebi, Mahboubeh Sadat, Zohreh Iran Red Crescent Med J Research Article BACKGROUND: Happiness is one of the most important factors affecting women's mental health. Several factors contribute to happiness in different societies. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the level of happiness in married women and its related factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study with stratified sampling proportional to different age groups of married women in selected health centers (based on socioeconomic status). Subjects were 379 married women. The Oxford Happiness Inventory (scale: 0-87) was used to measure happiness. The Enrich Marital Satisfaction Inventory including 47 questions (scale: 47-235) and demographic information questionnaires were also used. Descriptive statistics, correlation, T-test, One-way ANOVA and Regression were used to analyze data. RESULTS: The mean of happiness was 45.11 ± 14.40. Marital satisfaction was 164.68 ± 28.33 and 64% of the participants had a relative marital satisfaction. Univariate analysis of happiness showed significant effects of husband and wife education, husband job, economic status, stress in past six months, marital satisfaction and having social activates, but was not statistically significant for other factors (P < 0.05). Adjusting for the confounding effect of other variables, multiple linear regressions showed significant association of happiness with marital satisfaction, economic status and social activity. CONCLUSIONS: Regarding lower level of happiness of married women in Shahroud comparing to some other studies in Iran and abroad, leisure time programs, training life skills especially stress management skills, increasing marital satisfaction and improving economic status should be considered. Kowsar 2014-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4270650/ /pubmed/25593738 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.22211 Text en Copyright © 2014, Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal; Published by Kowsar. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Taebi, Mahboubeh
Sadat, Zohreh
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.22211
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