Objective: The present study was conducted to explain the causal relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and suicidal ideation (SI) in adolescents living in state welfare organizations (SWO) with the mediating role of finding meaning in life and perceived social support (PSS). Methods: The sample included 320 adolescents living in Tehran’s SWO, selected by multistage cluster sampling and participating in the research. The current research was descriptive and correlational (using structural equation modeling [SEM]). The data were collected using the EIscale, the meaning in life questionnaire (MLQ), and the multidimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS) and were analyzed using SPSS software, version 22 and Amos software, version 24.   Results: The results showed that the model fits the collected data (χ2/df=2.37, comparative fit index [CFI]=0.957, goodness fit index [GFI]=0.920, adjusted GFI [AGFI]=0.881, and root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA]=0.066). Direct path coefficient (PC) between EI (β=0.177, P>0.01), finding meaning in life (β=0.311, P>0.01), and PSS (β=0.427, P>0.01) with SI was negative and significant. The indirect PC between EI (β=-0.101, P=0.001) and finding meaning in life (β=0.111, P=0.001) with SI was negative and significant.  Conclusion: The structural model of the research was the same in terms of fit with the data of two groups of girls and boys. Adolescents living in SWO are more vulnerable to suicide due to their unique experiences. Finding meaning in life, higher EI and social connections can reduce SI in adolescents and act as protective factors.

Objective: The present study was conducted to explain the causal relationship between social health and finding meaning in life with suicidal thoughts in adolescents living in welfare organizations by evaluating the mediating role of perceived social support (PSS).   Methods: The sample included 320 adolescents covered by Tehran’s State Welfare Organization (SWO), who were selected by multistage cluster sampling and participated in the research. The current study was descriptive and correlational (using structural equation modeling [SEM]). The data were collected using the social health questionnaire, the meaning in life questionnaire (MLQ), and the multidimensional scale of PSS (MSPSS) and were analyzed using SPSS software, version 22 and Amos software, version 24. Results: The direct path coefficient (PC) of social health (β=0. 478, P>0. 01), finding meaning in life (β=0. 311, P>0. 01), and PSS (β=0. 427, P>0. 01) with suicidal thoughts was negative and significant. The indirect path coefficient (PC) between social health (β=0. 192, P=0. 001) and finding meaning in life (β=0. 111, P=0. 001) with suicidal thoughts were negative and significant.   Conclusion: The structural model of the research was the same in terms of fit with the data of two groups of girls and boys. Adolescents covered by the SWO are more vulnerable to suicide due to their special experiences. The meaning of life and social connections can reduce suicidal thoughts in adolescents and act as protective factors.

Objective: The present study was conducted to explain the causal relationship between social health and finding meaning in life with suicidal thoughts in adolescents living in welfare organizations by evaluating the mediating role of perceived social support (PSS).   Methods: The sample included 320 adolescents covered by Tehran’s State Welfare Organization (SWO), who were selected by multistage cluster sampling and participated in the research. The current study was descriptive and correlational (using structural equation modeling [SEM]). The data were collected using the social health questionnaire, the meaning in life questionnaire (MLQ), and the multidimensional scale of PSS (MSPSS) and were analyzed using SPSS software, version 22 and Amos software, version 24. Results: The direct path coefficient (PC) of social health (β=0. 478, P>0. 01), finding meaning in life (β=0. 311, P>0. 01), and PSS (β=0. 427, P>0. 01) with suicidal thoughts was negative and significant. The indirect path coefficient (PC) between social health (β=0. 192, P=0. 001) and finding meaning in life (β=0. 111, P=0. 001) with suicidal thoughts were negative and significant.   Conclusion: The structural model of the research was the same in terms of fit with the data of two groups of girls and boys. Adolescents covered by the SWO are more vulnerable to suicide due to their special experiences. The meaning of life and social connections can reduce suicidal thoughts in adolescents and act as protective factors.

Background & Objectives: Running away from home is a major social problem, worldwide. In Iran, girls running away from home has become a social harm issue. Escaping and staying away from home, leaving family members without parent’, s or legal executor permission, and unreturning to home is a reaction to unfavorable, unbearable, and sometimes immutable conditions. It usually occurs for reducing the unpleasantness and overcoming annoying and harmful stimuli in achieving the desired wishes or due to home and family’, s unpleasant environmental conditions, also a lack of security. Thus, providing psychological interventions to improve this condition is critical. The present study aimed to compare the effects of logotherapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on happiness in escapee and bad caregivers’,girls in the State Welfare Organization (SWO). Methods: This was a quasi–, experimental study with a multi–, group pretest–, posttest design. The study statistical population was all escapee and bad caregivers’,girls in the SWO centers in Tehran City, Iran, in 2020. Using the simple random sampling method, 60 eligible individuals (inclusion criteria: no psychological problems, basic literacy to complete the questionnaires,exclusion criterion: unwillingness to participate in the research) were selected and randomly assigned into 3 study groups (logotherapy, ACT, & control,n=20/group). To collect the required data, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Argyle et al., 1989) was used. The logotherapy group received eight 90–, minute weekly sessions based on the package of logotherapy of Schulenberg et al. (2010),the ACT group underwent ten 90–, minute weekly sessions per the package of Hayes and Strosahl (2004). However, the control group received no intervention. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation as well as inferential statistics, including Chi–, squares test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), univariate Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS at a significance level of 0. 01. Results: The obtained results revealed a significant difference between the logotherapy, ACT, and control groups on happiness (p<0. 001),the related effect size was measured as 0. 828. Thus, logotherapy and ACT increased happiness in the experimental groups, compared to the control group. Furthermore, the difference between the mean scores of happiness of the control and the logotherapy groups (p<0. 001), the control and the ACT groups (p<0. 001), and the logotherapy and the ACT groups (p<0. 001) was significant. Conclusion: According to the current research findings, ACT and logotherapy impacted happiness in the study samples,however, the effectiveness of logotherapy was significantly greater than that of ACT in this respect.

Background: Having disabled children can definitely hurt the mental health status of parents, especially mothers, andeven directly affect children’, s behaviors as well as their adaptability and progress during all care and rehabilitation programs. Objectives: The main purpose of this study was to investigate general health status of mothers having children with hearing disabilities and reflect on children’, s quality of life (QoL). Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was performed on all children with hearing disabilities covered by the StateWelfare Organization (SWO) of Iran in northern Khuzestan province in 2019. Accordingly, a total of 44children aged 1-6yearsandtheir mothers were included. The data were collected using a demographic characteristics information form, the 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research Academic Medical Centre (TNO-AZL) Preschool Children Quality of Life (TAPQOL) questionnaire. The data were entered into the SPSS Statistics software (ver. 22) and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman’, s rank-order correlation coefficient, and chi-square test. Results: According to the results, 79% of the mothers had severe general health problems. The severity of such problems had further elevated in the dimensions of “, physical symptoms”, , “, anxiety and sleep disorders”, , “, depression”, , and “, social functioning”, , respectively. The mean score of the children’, s QoL was 79. 13, 14. 48, which was at a moderate level. The study findings showed a significant relationship between some demographic characteristics and the mothers’, general health status and the children’, s QoL. Moreover, there was a reciprocal correlation between mothers’, general health and children’, s QoL scores (P = 0. 049, r =-0. 29). Conclusions: Although QoL in the children having hearing disabilities was at a moderate level, the majority of mothers had severe general health problems. The study results could be useful for health system officials in terms of the promotion of children’, s QoL by designing and implementing programs to improve the general health status of the mothers of these children.