M.A. Thesis:

The Relationship between Mother's Personality Traits and Distress Tolerance With Anxiety of Sixth Grade Elementary Girls Students in Sabzevar City

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and the amount of distress tolerance of mothers with anxiety of female students in sixth grade elementary school in Sabzevar, Iran. It was a descriptive-correlation research. The research sample included 306 female students at six grade primary school in Sabzevar, with their mothers who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method using Morgan table. Data were collected through Personality Characteristic Inventory (NEO), Simons and Gaher Distress Tolerance Scale (2005) and Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (1997). The research findings were analysed using SPSS software, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. Based on the results, the personality characteristics and distress tolerance were explained 20% of the variance of anxiety, which was significant in terms of significance level (P <0.01). The results indicated that psychotic character was (? = 0.2, P <0.01) and accountability was (? = 0.186 and P <0.01) and predicted anxiety in the positive direction. Also, the results of table 4-7 indicated that distress tolerance was (? = -0.47; P <0.01) and predicted anxiety in the negative direction. The results also showed that there was a significant positive relationship between psychosis or emotional stability and anxiety (r = 0.345, P <0.01) and there was significant positive relationship between anxiety and accountability (r = 0.113, p <0.05). Also, based on the results, there was a significant negative correlation between introversion / extroversion and anxiety (r = -0.213, P <0.01). There was a significant negative relationship between openness to experience and anxiety (r = -0.229, P <0.01), There was a significant negative correlation between flexibility and anxiety (r = -0.275; p <0.01), and there was a significant negative correlation between distress tolerance and anxiety (r = -0.383 , P <0.01).By the results of the study , considering the effects of personality traits and the distress tolerance of mothers on the anxiety of children, it is necessary to take effective steps to improve the mental status of mothers in order to reduce their children's problems.

Keywords: personality traits, distress tolerance, anxiety, mothers, students