Journal of Family Research
Year:2008 | Volume:3 | Issue:12|Papers Count:9

The purpose of this study is to investigate the coping strategies used by parents of children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). Parents of 43 children with PDD were selected through random sampling method and matched on age, education, and sex of children as well.A control group of 43 parents of child- ren without documented physiological/ psychological problems were selected using simple sampling method from two districts of Tehran (2 & 6). All participants were asked to fill in the Coping Responses Inventory (Billings & Moos, 1981). This inventory measures 5 types of coping strategies including appraisal-focused coping (5- items), problem-focused coping (3 items), emotion-focused coping (11 items), somatic-focused coping (9 items) and social support focused coping (4 items). The test-retest reliability coefficient of this inventory is 0.80. Also the reliability of each subscale of this inventory is 0.90 for problem-focused coping, 0.60 for emotion-focused coping, 0.68 for appraisal-focused coping, 0.90 for somatic-focused coping and 0.90 for social support focused coping. Statistical analyses showed that mothers of children with PDD tend to use more somatic-focused coping strategies. There were no other differences between the two groups. In both groups, father used more appraisal-focused and problem-focused coping strategies, but mothers were somatic-focused and emotion-focused.

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between child rearing styles and incidence of anorexia nervosa in female adolescents between the age of 14-17 in Esfahan city. The sample of this study was consisting 53 female adolescents and their parents which were selected through purposeful sampling. The adolescents filled Minnesota Eating Behavior Surveey (MEBS) and their parents filled child rearing questionnaire of Baum Rind.The results firstly showed that there is a significant positive relationship between democratic style of parents and anorexia nervosa among female adolescents. Second, there is a significant negative relationship between autoritian style of parents and anorexia nervosa between female adolescents.Third, no significant relationship between permissive style of parents and anorexia nervosa was not found in female adolescents. So, we conclude that there is a relationship between child rearing styles and incidence of anorexia nervosa and its subscales in female adolescents.

In contemporary world, especially among the Middle East countries which have social disorders and their institutions of socialization act contradictorily, family can have an important role in prevention of internal and external behavior problems. Parenting style in family can be evaluated as a successful parenting style if attends to adolescents’ independence besides monitoring them. This article discusses preferences of obedience and independence as two familial values. The main question is that in which conditions the probability of these preferences will increase or decrease? Used data extracted from the fourth wave of World Value Survey. The15- 24 years old adolescents in the Middle East countries were selected as our samples. Findings show that demographic variables have an important role in preference of obedience, while both of demographic and social variables are important in preference of independence. In addition, we have shown that there are significant differences between different countries in mutual preference of obedience and independence, while the effective variables of these preferences follow the same model in majority of these countries.

The purpose of this study was comparison of alexithymia, stress and attachment in divorcing couples. Subjects (119 female, 63 male) were collected from Guilan Family Judicature. The instruments were Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20, Bressi et al., 1996) Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Cohen, et, al, 1987) and Attachment Styles Questioner (Hazan & Shaver 1987). Analysis was based on Pearson, poly choric, poly serial correlation, regression analysis, and (MANOVA). Findings suggest significant relationship between stress & attachment and alexithymia. In addition, secure attachment showed significant relationship with indicator of emotion subscale of alexithymia. In regression analysis three variables of education, stress and ambivalence attachment predicted alexithymia accounting for 32% of variance. There was no significant relationship between gender and perceived stress.

The present research is aimed to study the relation between differention of self and emotional intelligence, and is conducted among individuals reffering to judical conters and those who tend to continue their marital life. The sample of the following research consists of 61 individuals referring to judical conters and 61 individuals who tend to continue their marriage. Both groups completed differentiation of self Inventory and Emotional intelligence scale. The results indicate significant differences between experimental and control groups in emotional intelligence and differentiation (p</001).Emotional Intelligence and differentiation scores were significantly higher in control group. According to the results of regression analysis, differentiation of self, I position, and Emotional cutoff could be considered as predictive variables for emotional intelligence.

Lack of clear and concise definitions, concepts, and treatment protocols in the field of marriage and family therapy research has been criticized frequently. Given this, the field of marriage and family therapy would benefit from a helpful research methodology that could shed light on areas of conflict; very few studies based on this method have been carried out. This paper argues that application of Delphi studies would serve to address the issue.A description of Delphi methodology and its application in marriage and family therapy research literature are presented. Nineteen years of research (1988- 2007) has been reviewed and based on the evidence, advantages, disadvantages, and some guidelines of Delphi method are discussed.

Family communication patterns during the last three decades have drived many investigations in various fields and cultures. The main part of these studies has used the Revised Family Communication Patterns (RFCP) instrument. Therefore the purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of RFCP in Iran. To pursue this aim 326 (161 female and 165 male) students were selected by multistage random cluster sampling method from second and third highschool students of Shiraz city. Participants completed RFCP. Findings showed that there was a positive relationship between RFCP and Parentchild Bonding Instrument (PBI) which provided evidence to support the criteria validity of the RFCP. Principal component factor analysis was also used to evaluate the construct validity of the instrument. The results showed that two factors of conversation orientation and conformity orientation could be extracted. The RFCP showed a good internal consistency and acceptable test-retest reliability as well as Cronbach alpha coefficient. In sum, the psychometric properties of RFCP suggest that the instrument can be used as a valid and reliable scale for Iranian students.