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Developing A Model of Iranian Family Resilience: A Qualitative Research
Abdollah Shafiabadi , Abbas Mooziri , Masumeh Esmaili , Jalil Younesi
Ph.D Candidate, Counseling Department, Education and Psychology Faculty, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran , mooziriabbas@gmail.com
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Background: Family faces different hardships and challenges that are such stressful that can destroy it. No doubt that we need to protect and last family. So, this research aims at developing a local model for family resilience.
Methods: To do so, at primer level 13 couples who qualified the criteria, were selected through purpose-focused, available, and voluntary sampling method. In order to identify local elements of family resilience the families experienced a crisis in their marriage, and obtained high scores in Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD- RISC), Sixbey Family Resilience Surrey (SFRS), and Family Assessment Device (FAD) were voluntarily interviewed. Qualitative Grounded method was used to collect information.
Results: In analyzing transcripts of interviews with couples, 168 and 15 categories were obtained respectively from open coding and axial coding based on topic similarity. As a result, a model of family resilience was constructed including 5 dimensions: Personality, Belief System, Skills, Family Structure, and Social Resource.
Conclusion: The developed Iranian model is integrative, and it can be used for designing interventions to increase family resilience and patience toward problems.
Keywords: Positive Psychology, Healthy Family, Family Resilience
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2020/07/26 | Accepted: 2020/10/01 | Published: 2020/10/01



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