Anxiety disorders and depression investigation on divorced mothers

In this study, it is aimed to examine the levels of anxiety disorder and depres-sion by emphasizing the maternal roles of divorced women. Determining the causes of anxiety disorder and depression, determining and correcting the social and mental condition play a very important role in the rehabilitation of these psychological prob-lems. For this reason, the factors that trigger the divorce phenomenon, depression and anxiety have also been included in the research. According to the scale results, anxie-ty and depression levels of divorced mothers have been examined and evaluated. The universe of the research consists of divorced women with children who are between the ages of 18-60 and at least literate, living in the district of Kağıthane in Istanbul. The minimum number of participants to be included in the research was determined with the G * Power program. Assuming that there could be people who may leave the study, 320 people were included in the study. The study was carried out in the Kağıthane district of Istanbul between the dates of January 2020 and June 2020. "Socio-Demographic Data Form", "Beck De-pression Scale" and "Beck Anxiety Scale" were applied to the sample group. Data obtained by survey data collection method was analyzed with SPSS package pro-gram. T-test, Variance Analysis (ANOVA) and correlation analysis were used to ex-amine whether there is a relationship between depression / anxiety levels and divorce and variables. It is aimed that the research will be a source for new research on the subject. As a result,in this study, it was found that depression and anxiety symptoms of divorced mothers were highly associated with each other.Especially in countries such as our country, where the young population rate is high, studies on the relation-ship of these situations and the individual, family and social programs for divorced mothers will positively affect women's mental health and help them become happier and healthier individuals in their future lives. Keywords: Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Divorce, Divorced Mother