Comparing Psychological Wellbeing and Life Quality in the People Suffering from Personality Disorder to the Normal People

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran. (Corresponding Author)

Abstract

Introduction: The emergence of personality disorder causes the damage in the psychological, emotional, and communicative components of the patients. Therefore the present study was conducted aiming to compare psychological wellbeing and life quality in the people suffering from personality disorder to the normal people in the city of Isfahan.
Materials and Methods: The research method of the present study was descriptive in causal-comparative type. The statistical population of the present study is divided into two major groups; the people with borderline, histrionic, obsessive dependent and avoidant personality disorders, and normal people in the city of Isfahan. Non-probable purposive sampling method was used in the present study in a way that 60 people were selected from 20-to-40-year-old people with personality disorder who referred to consultation centers in the city of Isfahan and 60 people were purposefully selected from healthy people and their research questionnaires were offered to them. The applied questionnaires in this study included life quality questionnaire (WHO, 1994), and the questionnaire of psychological wellbeing (Ryff, 1989). The data from the study were analyzed through MANOVA method via SPSS software.
Results: The results of data analysis showed that psychological wellbeing and life quality are significantly different in the people with personality disorder and normal people (P<0.0001) in a way that the people with personality disorder had lower scores in the components of psychological wellbeing and life quality in comparison to the normal people.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, psychological, social, emotional and familial processes of the people with personality disorder should be sufficiently attended to and their psychological health should be helped through applying suitable intervention methods such as ACT, mindfulness therapy and positivist psychotherapy.

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medical journal of mashhad university of medical sciences
Volume 62, Issue 5
November and December 2019
Pages 1775-1785

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