Introduction: in recent years in the pathology of children's behavioral problems, the role of parents' psychological state has drawn much attention and it is believed that the mothers' psychological problems are effective in creating behavioral problems in the children. Therefore, the present study was conducted aiming at investigating the relationship between the feeling of entanglement and the lack of joy-seeking in mothers of preschool female children with behavioral problems in Isfahan.

Method : the method of the current study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study included preschool female children and their mothers in the city of Isfahan in 2013-14, from whom a sample of 374 mothers was selected according to Morgan table through clustered random sampling method. The applied instruments in the present study were the questionnaire of the feeling of entanglement, Rotter's scale of joy-seeking and behavioral problems. The achieved data were analyzed by Pearson correlation analysis and multiple regression.

Result : the results of correlation showed that there is a significant positive correlation between feeling of entanglement and lack of joy-seeking in mothers of the children with behavioral problems (p<0.01).

Conclusion: with regard to the significant relationship of children's behavioral problems and mothers' lack of joy-seeking it is necessary to attend sufficiently to the mothers' psychological health to improve the children's behaviors.