Abstract

Present research's goal is Comparative study of mental health of people who gratitude toward God, considering forgiveness, among children in center for Rehabilitation and Education and Shahed students of Zahedan. Questionnaires were distributed among 120 people that included 50 boys of rehabilitation center and 10 under 18 year old girls in women prison and also 60 questionnaires also were distributed randomly among Shahed school students. For collecting data mental health questionnaire (Goldenberg, 1972), appreciating God (Krause, 2006) and forgiveness (Rey, 2001) were used. Researchis comparison form and for analyzing data, multi-way Analysis of Variance was used. The obtained results of research show that the mental health of people who appreciates Godin rehabilitation center is less than Shahed students. Also there isn't significant difference among mental health of people who gratitude toward God and forgiveness and the interaction among these components in rehabilitation center children and Shahed students.