Page No 307-310
Bahman Kord Tamini and Farhad Kahrazei
University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
Present study aimed at investigating and comparing general health and life
satisfaction of students in polygamy and monogamy families. The sample size of
this research consist of 128 students (32 male and 32 female from polygamy families
and 32 male and 32 female from monogamy families) were selected at random.
To collect the data General Health Questionnaire and Life Satisfaction Scale of
Students were applied. The results of the present study showed that there was
negative significant correlation between physical symptoms, anxiety, social
dysfunction and depression sub-scales and total scores of GHQ and life satisfaction,
and also the results of the ANOVA indicated that there was not any significant
difference between the mean scores of four groups on general health scale and
sub-scales. The results did not emerge significant difference between four groups
on life satisfaction scale. But results indicated a significance difference between
male and female students on physical symptoms, anxiety, depression and total
scores of GHQ. The female students scored significantly higher than male students,
but there was not any significant difference between two groups of gender on
social dysfunction sub-scale scores and life satisfaction scale