Quality of life and happiness of mother-headed families and mothers in present study Ghyrsrprst

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Among the vulnerable social groups in the community, women are the head of the family who face challenges due to the lack of or poor supervision of the husband and their social life. In today's changing conditions, the quality of life, happiness, and social well-being of this cortex are an important issue. Hence, studying the quality of life and their happiness can be an important step in identifying their needs and socio-advocacy policy. The aim of this study was to compare the quality of life and happiness of mothers of the family head and unmarried mothers in Jahrom city. The research method was causal-comparative. The statistical population of this study included all mothers of head of household and non-guardian mothers living in Jahrom city. A sample group of 100 people (50 female head of household and 50 non-family members) were selected using purposeful sampling and assessed by two World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaires and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed at two levels of descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (variance analysis). The results showed that there is a significant difference between the quality of life and happiness of the mothers of the head of the family and non-nursing mothers and the average quality of life and happiness of the head of household mothers is lower than non-nursing mothers. The dimensions of the quality of work life and dimensions of happiness in supervised mothers There is a significant difference between the family and non-guarded mothers...

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