Comparison of Psychological Flexibility of Normal Adolescents with orphans and Mistreated adolescent in Kerman Welfare Centers

Due to the critical period of adolescence and disorders that can affect this period, family support and play an important role in promoting or reducing mental health in adolescents. Because the growth and behavior of affected individuals is the type of family in which they live, children in the family, in interaction with others, learn communication skills, interpret the behavior of others and feelings experience. The inadequate performance of family and parent due to separation or death can lead to the teenager's participation in high–risk behaviors, mental health problems and increased psychiatric disorders. The rupture of the family as well as other factors in Iranian society has left many families with child abandonment. Parental mismatches and divorced increased the psychological vulnerability of children. One of the obstacles to the presence of these children in the community is the society's view of this kind of children, the viewpoint and the attitude that lies in schools and in the surroundings with unaccompanied children can be in the growth and enhancement of the personality or vice versa, in order to reduce self–esteem and escape. The child will be affected in the future. Earlier research has shown that emotional problems and types of mental disorders have a high percentage in adolescents who are mentally ill and overweight in Iran and various communities. Emotional problems also have a direct relationship with psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility is defined as the ability to perform practical now in accordance with personal values. Teens throughout the course of their lives face chronic and acute needs that can be unpleasantly influenced by their physical and psychological health, so individuals must be equipped with psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means creating the ability to make practical choices. It is more appropriate than the various options, rather than doing things that are only disturbing to avoid thoughts, feelings, memories or desires. Regarding the above mentioned the importance of studies in the field of children with impaired caregivers and identifying their psychological characteristics, this study aimed to compare the psychological flexibility of ordinary adolescents with adolescent boys and nurses who were kept in centers under the supervision of welfare Kerman city.  

The current study was a comparative and causal study. The statistical population of this study was all adolescents (13 to 18 years old) who were nulliparous and unprotected and held in centers under the supervision of welfare and normal adolescents in Kerman (Kerman province, South of Iran). Using purposeful sampling, 80 adolescent in well–being care centers selected as well as 80 normal children (in high school) through targeted sampling. Data collection tools were Bond and associates (2011) psychological flexibility questionnaire. Data were analyzed using multivariate test and independent T–test.

T–test showed that the difference between the two groups was significant in cognitive flexibility (p<0.001). Thus, unprotected and unprotected adolescents have less cognitive flexibility than their normal husbands do.

The results of this study highlight the role of psychological variables such as cognitive flexibility in adolescents who are not at risk and the need for using new psychotherapy methods to increase it. The results showed that unprotected and unprotected adolescents, in comparison with their normal counterparts, obtained a penny scores in cognitive resilience. Identification of common risk factors among cognitive impairments among adolescents is of particular importance. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the psychological inflexibility as a pathologic factor of various types of mental disorders. It is suggested to use psychiatric courses in order to increase the psychosocial flexibility of the mentally ill adolescents.