Background: One of the most critical periods of women’s life is subjected to theprocess of menopause. Objective: The main aim of the study was to compare theidentity crisis among the menopause and usual women. A comparative-causativemethod was used to study the research. 60 women higher than 45 years old with earlymenopause symptoms due to the disease or surgery and 60 non-menopause womenhigher than 30 year old dwelling in Tehran cosmopolitan participated in this research.They filled the identity crisis questionnaire. Data were analyzed by the use of meanscomparison method and SPSS software. Results: The results indicated that there is asignificant difference between the identity crisis of normal and menopause women.Only menopause and non menopause women had significant difference in terms oftradition subscale. Conclusion: Due to the obtained results of the present study, it canbe concluded that the menopause has a negative impact on the identity crisis amongmenopause women.
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