Thesis:

Investigating the relationship between self-expression skills and life satisfaction with the mediation of developmental assets of orphaned and abused children under Sabzevar welfare

The method of the current research is descriptive correlation and from the series of applied designs. The statistical population included all unaccompanied and abused male adolescents aged 8-12 who are in care centers in Sabzevar city, and according to the statistics obtained from the welfare department, the number of adolescents in 3 care centers was 42. Due to the small number of the research community, the research sample was selected by census method; Therefore, all members of the society have been included in the sample. To collect data, self-expression questionnaires of Gambrill and Ritchie (1987), life satisfaction questionnaires of Diner et al. (1989) and the developmental capital profile of Benson et al. (2006) were used. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson's correlation and multivariate regression) with the help of spss software version 20. The results showed that there was no significant positive relationship between self-expression skills and life satisfaction, self-expression with developmental assets and developmental assets with life satisfaction of orphaned and abused children in Sabzevar city

Keywords: Self-expression, life satisfaction, developmental assets