JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY (TABRIZ UNIVERSITY)
Year:2007 | Volume:2 | Issue:6|Papers Count:8

The aim of this study was to examine renormalization of Kyriacou and Sutcliffe's teachers' stress prevalence, source and symptoms scale (TSS) through factor analysis and assessing its validity and reliability. 430 male and female teachers, consisting of both physical education and non- physical education high school teachers at West Azarbaijan province filled out the TSS questionnaire. Diffluent and convergent validity of TSS were computed through determining coefficient of correlation by Mental Health Inventory (MHI) as well as Job Descriptive Index (JDI). TSS reliability was calculated through tester test and internal consistency. Reliability and validity indices obtained for TSS were satisfactory and significant at p<0.01. Seven factors were obtained by factor analysis applying varimax method. These factors had eigenvalues higher than I and 49041 percent of the total variance was explained by them. The seventh factor was removed because its reliability was lower than 0.7. The Remaining six factors are: teacher's inappropriate socioeconomic and family statues, issues concerning the school’s atmosphere and facilities, students' behavior problems and difficulties, teachers' professional qualifications, students' low amount of educational motivation and time pressure. Regarding the source and symptoms of stress, criterion validity concerning those who had stressful experiences during the past 12 months yielded that there was significance difference between two groups with low and high stress. Results showed that 8.2, 18.1, 40.0, 30.5 and 3.2 percent of the teachers were at non-risk, low risk, average risk, high risk and extreme risk areas, respectively, but none of them were at the critical area. According to the results of the research, TSS scale had necessary psychometrics characteristics to be applied at psychological research and clinical diagnosis in investigation of the teachers' stress.

The present study examines social skills (emotional expressivity, emotional sensivity, emotional control, social expressivity, social senility, social control) as the predictors of success or failure of marital relationship in intact and divorce-seeking couples of Ahvaz City. 128 divorce-seeking and 129 intact couples (514) consisted the main sample and 61 divorce seeking and 100 intact couples (322) consisted the validation sample. The divorce sample was selected from the population of divorce-seeking couples and the intact sample was selected by the use of multi-stage random sampling. The Social Skills Questionnaire was administered to all the couples in the main sample. One hypothesis concerning the predictive roles of the social skills was advanced. In order to analyze the data both discriminate analysis and descriptive statistics were utilized. Findings revealed the fact that success or failure in marital relationship can be predicted from the variables of social skills. The results confirmed the hypothesis of this study. The results obtained and the models presented in this study are discussed in detail.

In present research, based on emotion congruence hypothesis, the role of extraversion and neuroticism personality dimensions in emotional information processing and the moderating role of positive and negative mood were assessed. 654 university female students completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R); then, on the basis of extreme scores in extraversion and neuroticism dimensions from the main sample, 4 groups (each with 30 Ss) were selected. All groups experienced positive and negative induced mood in two separate sessions with 2 to 4 weeks interval. After mood induction in each session, subjects performed three cognitive tasks: free recall, probability rating and story completion. The findings revealed that subjects with higher extraversion, made more positive judgment and interpretation in positive mood condition; and individuals with higher neuroticism, made more negative judgment and interpretation in negative mood condition; but extravert and neurotic subjects did not differ significantly in the number of positive and negative recalled words in the two mood conditions. Overall, the findings of this research support the view that extraversion and neuroticism are associated with judgment and interpretation of emotional information in emotion-congruent manner and indicate that current mood states moderate the judgments and interpretations of emotional information in extraverted and neurotic individuals. 

The purpose of the study was to examine the validity and reliability of the general Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI) by analyzing the responses made to it by 419 students (214 male and 205 female). The confirmatory analyses were used to compute the validity. The internal consistency was used to determine the TSI reliability. The Cronbach alpha values showed that TSI has a good reliability. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated a good fit to the intended latent structure of TSI at item and subscales levels. The results buttressed the notion that the TSI is a valid and reliable measurement instrument in determining college students' thinking styles.

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between perceptions of family and school contexts and students' academic Achievement, along with two mediating variables, i.e., motivation and self-worth and school. Three tests, including parents, teachers and school tests, were utilized in this research and were administered to 325 high school boy third graders in Ardebil. The results of the conducted Path Analysis indicated that perceptions of family and school contexts play a role in predicting the students' academic achievement. Furthermore, perceptions of family and school contexts could predict motivation and self-worth variables. It is worth mentioning that the predicted value for motivation was lower than that of self-worth at school. In addition, the results of the study showed that motivation and self-worth could predict students' academic achievement. It was also revealed that unlike "self-worth at school", motivation didn't play a meditative role between perceptions of family and school contexts and students' academic Achievement.

The objective of this research was to study personal memory and confidence in memory in individuals with OCD-checker type and obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), and to compare these groups with OCD-washer type and normal controls. For this purpose four groups of subjects (OCD-checker type. OCD-washer type, OCPD and normal control) were selected and were matched in demographic characteristics. The subjects level of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms were assessed using Beck anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Maudsly obsessive-compulsive Inventory (MOC!) and who received high scores on BAI were excluded from the study. Then the clinical subjects were interviewed using DSMIV criteria for OCD and OCPD to confirmation of diagnosis (originally, the subjects have been referred from psychiatric offices). The subject’s memory was assessed via two computerized lists of words (recalling list and recognition / confidence list). The finding showed that the groups didn't differ significantly in their personal memory. The OCD checker type and OCPD groups showed low confidence in their memory. It can be said there is a relation between the OCD-checker type and OCPD. Further research need to exploration of this relation.