Journal of Social Behavior and Community Health

en The Relationship between Personality Disorders and Parent's Social Capital with the Social Health of Children and Adolescents in Yazd روانشناسی Psychology Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;">Background: Considering that personality disorders and parents' social capital are two important factors that can affect the social health of children and adolescents, therefore, the present study aims to examine the relationship between personality disorders and parents' social capital with the social health of children and adolescents in Yazd. Methods: This is a descriptive_ correlational study that was done in the province of Yazd in which 1035 children and adolescents between the ages of 6 to 18 participated. These participants were selected on the base of multi-stage random cluster sampling. The social capital questionnaire and parents' personality disorders (Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory - Third Edition (MCMI-III) which parents completed and the lifestyle questionnaire was completed by children and adolescents. Data analysis was done by applying descriptive statistics and calculation of odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval. Results: A total of 1035 parents children and adolescents were enrolled, participants (44.1%) were males and (55.9%) were females. Millon's test of fathers demonstrates a significant correlation with the average scores of structural social capital, cognitive social capital, communicative social capital, and total social capital (P-value < 0.001). Millon’s test of fathers had a significant relationship with total social capital in all age groups (P-value < 0.05). On the other hand, Millon’s test of mothers had a significant relationship with total social capital in fathers aged 19-34 years (P-value < 0.001). Conclusion: Family social capital improves children and adolescent’s social health. Consequently, caregivers have a significant impact on the social and psychological well-being of young individuals. Enhancing the level of social capital and promoting mutual understanding among parents is imperative to achieve this goal. It is necessary to strengthen the level of social capital,  and mutual understanding between parents. In addition, it can be suggested to pay more attention to the psychological characteristics of parents in the process of diagnosis and therapeutic intervention of children and adolescents.  </div> Social capital, Personality disorder, Millon test, psychiatric disorder 1331 1343 http://sbrh.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-98-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Nastaran Ahmadi Ahmadi.psy@gmail.com 0000-0001-6816-3904 No Yazd Cardiovascular Research Center, Non-communicable Diseases Research Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Parvane Rashidpour parvanerashidpour@gmail.com 0000-0002-1341-6000 No Department of Psychiatry, Reserch Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences,Yazd, Iran Mohammadreza Mohammadi mohammadimr@tums.ac.ir 0000-0002-0323-4617 No Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mohammadhadi Farahzadi h.farahzadi@ssu.ac.ir 0000-0003-1905-6891 Yes Department of Psychiatry, Reserch Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Javad Ardeshirpay javadardeshirpay@yahoo.com 0000-0001-5862-0753 No Faculty of Education and Psychology, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran Hosein Abouzari Hosein.abouzari@gmail.com 0000-0002-2377-0062 No Clinical Psychologist, Shahid Sadoighi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Malihe Mobini malihemobini@yahoo.com No Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran Masoud Mirzaei mirzaeim@mailfa.com 0000-0001-6455-0747 No Yazd Cardiovascular Research Center, Non-Communicable Disease Research Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Amirhoushang Mehrparvar ah.mehrparvar@gmail.com 0000-0002-7319-3750 No Department of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Fatemeh Rismanian Yazdi rismaniangoly@yahoo.com 0000-0003-4420-6505 No Faculty of Education and Psychology, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran