The Predictive Role of Parental Popularity and Spiritual Vitality from Self-Worth in Adolescents with Visual Impairment Parents Families Supported by the Welfare Organization

Spiritual vitality is a variable that, despite its great importance, has received low attention as a separate subject. Spiritual vitality is necessary for life and a motivating factor for human beings to achieve mental health and closeness to God. At the same time, the family factor, particularly parental popularity has a significant relationship with mental well-being and, reducing socio-psychological injuries. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of investigating the predictive role of parental popularity and spiritual vitality in the feeling of self-worth in adolescents with visual impairment parents.

The current research was descriptive correlational. The statistical population of the study included all adolescents with blind parents under the supported of the Welfare Organization in 31 provinces of Iran in 2022. 240 adolescents were selected by purposive sampling method. The participants were asked to complete the SES (by Rosenberg), the SVS (by Afrooz) and the PPS (by Afrooz and Asadi) questionnaires. Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data. In the present study, all the ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interests.

The results showed a positive and significant correlation between spiritual vitality and feeling of self-worth (r=0.63 and P<0.011), and parents' popularity (r=0.52 and P>0.017) was positively and significantly correlated with feeling of self-worth. Regression analysis showed that spiritual vitality can explain 20% of the variance in the sense of self-worth; Spiritual vitality and parents' popularity together could explain 28% of the variance of self-worth; and the popularity of parents independently of spiritual vitality was able to explain 7% of this variance. Two factors of mother's and father's popularity were also able to predict 8% of the variance in self-worth feeling. Among the variables related to mother and father's popularity, mother's popularity was the strongest predictor with beta coefficient of (β=0.26).

Given that parents 'popularity and spiritual vitality explain a high degree of variability in self-worth, it is important to pay attention to these factors in improving adolescents’ sense of self-worth, and take them into account in community health promotion programs.