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Depression and Anxiety ISSN: 2643-4059

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Heizomi H, Allahverdipour H, Hejazi SB, Jafarabadi MA, Shirazi A (2018) Factors Associating Perceived Stress and Psychological Well-being among Iranian Female Adolescents. Int J Depress Anxiety 1:003. doi.org/10.23937/ijda-2017/1710003

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© 2018 Heizomi H, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

ORIGINAL RESEARCH | OPEN ACCESS DOI: 10.23937/ijda-2017/1710003

Factors Associating Perceived Stress and Psychological Well-being among Iranian Female Adolescents

Haleh Heizomi1, Hamid Allahverdipour2, Shahrzad Bazargan Hejazi3*, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi4 and Anaheed Shirazi5

1Department of Health Education & Promotion, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

2Clinical Psychiatry Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

3Department of Psychiatry, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA

4Medical Education Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

5College of Medicine, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abstract

Aim

1) To assess the role of life satisfaction, happiness, hopefulness, and self-efficacy, on perceived stress and PWB among a sample of female high school 9th graders in Tabriz, Iran; 2) To assess direct and indirect relationships of life satisfaction, happiness, hopefulness, and self-efficacy with PWB in the sample, considering the mediator role of perceived stress under a conceptual model.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study of 289 randomly-selected female 9th-grader high school students in Tabriz, Iran, from 2013-2014. Trained study staff obtained consent and asked the participants to complete a self-administered validated questionnaire.

Results

Among participants, 64.7% reported mental health problems and 74.3% reported high stress levels. In unadjusted analyses, PWB was positively correlated with life satisfaction, happiness, hopefulness and self-efficacy, and it was negatively correlated with self-perceived stress (P < 0.01 for all correlations). In adjusted analyses, higher life satisfaction and lower stress levels were associated with better PWB (P < 0.001 for all associations). Higher levels of happiness and self-efficacy were associated with lower stress levels.

Conclusion

PWB was influenced by a network of interconnected constructs including life satisfaction, happiness, self-efficacy, and stress. Further studies are needed to disentangle the complex relationships within this network.