A Comparative of Quality of Life among the Adolescent Deprived from Presence of Father

ABSTRACT: This study is designed to compare personal characteristics and the quality of life among the adolescent deprived of presence of father according to causal-comparative way. Static sample consists of 160 girls and boys who are 14-23 years old. They are divided to 4 groups, each group consists of 40 persons who are deprived of presence of father (divorce &common death & traumatic death) and one control group that consists of 40 persons is chosen according to random-stratified sampling and for data collection the researcher used SF-36 questionnaire and for analyzing the data the researcher used one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results showed that: adolescents with common death father have highest quality of life and lowest score was for control or father presence group. Analysis of variance showed that based on type of father presence, quality of life adolescents among 4 groups is not significance. Results showed that eight aspects of quality of life, including physical function, role physical, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social function, role emotional and mental health has not significance among 3 type of absence father and control group