RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
Year:2016 | Volume:10 | Issue:1 |Papers Count:8

The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive role of biological and psychological factors in the sexual health of menopausal women considering the mediating role of psychological factors. It is a descriptive study and is based on the Lex model.307 menopausal women living in Tehran between 2014 and 2015 were selected through purposeful sampling method and then were investigated.The instruments of this study included ENRICH marital satisfaction questionnaire, Beck self-concept scale, Bem' s gender schemas questionnaire, Sherer's self-efficacy questionnaire, Amz's Narcissistic personality inventory, quality of object relations inventory, Brief Index of Sexual Functioning for Women (BISF-W), and checklist of menopause symptoms. Results suggested that the cultural factors had a direct effect on the sexual health. In addition, biological and psychological factors could predict the sexual health directly or indirectly (with the mediating role of the cultural factors).Furthermore, findings showed that in this model the psychological factors had a stronger role than the biological factors to predict the sexual health.Results showed that this model was acceptable for explaining the sexual health in menopausal women.

This study was performed to investigate the relationship between psychological capitals and disease perception in patients with multiple sclerosis. In this study, 120 patients with multiple sclerosis were selected and studied from the MS Society of city of Ahwaz city by using availability sampling method. The data collection tools included two questionnaires, Luthans Psychological Capital Questionnaire and Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire, which were completed by patients. Then the mean scores of psychological capitals (2.29 ± 16.39) and disease perception (1.03 ± 5.27) were calculated.Pearson correlation test showed a positive and meaningful correlation between the total score of psychological capitals and its components with the disease perception (P =0.001). In regression results, of the psychological capitals components, the components of self-efficacy, optimism and resilience indicated the highest correlation with the disease perception. Based on the findings of this study the people with better psychological capitals would use these capitals with a deeper understanding of their disease for strengthening and adapting themselves to their disease status.

The present study aimed at investigating the role of patience in predicting the difficulties in emotion regulation among university students.400 undergraduate university students studying at Shiraz University were recruited via multistage cluster sampling method. They completed patience scale and difficulties in emotion regulation scale (DERS). This study was a descriptive and correlational one and the data were analyzed using path analysis model. Results of the path analysis using the structural equation modeling in AMOS software showed that patience was a negative and significant predictor of difficulties in emotion regulation. Tolerance was negatively related with the non-acceptance of emotional responses, difficulty in doing goal-directed behavior, impulse control difficulty, and limited access to emotion regulation strategies. Furthermore, persistence was negatively associated with the difficulty in doing goaldirected behavior, lack of emotional awareness, and limited access to emotion regulation strategies. Moreover, there was a negative relationship between the component of consent, impulse control difficulty, limited access to emotion regulation strategies, and non-acceptance of emotional responses. Results of this study support the idea that patience plays an important role in reducing difficulties in emotion regulation. These findings have major implications for the patience training and for the important role of this moral virtue in the prevention of emotional dysregulation among students.

The goal of this research was to compare the intimacy and interpersonal anger experience in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, general anxiety disorder and in healthy people. The sample of this study included 90 Participants (30 patients with obsessive–Compulsive disorder, 30 patients with generalized anxiety disorder, and 30 normal subjects) that were selected by convenience sampling method. Participants completed Multidimensional Anger Inventory, Quality of relationship inventory and General Health Questionnaire.Results of the analysis of the data showed that as for the quality of intimate relationships the average of the participants' scores only had significant difference in terms of the social support subscale. The average of the social support in individual with generalized anxiety disorder was different from the average of the social support in the normal group. The average of the group with the generalized anxiety disorder was more than the average of the normal group in the total scale of anger.Both clinical groups had more scores in the arousal subscale in comparison to the normal group. In the group with the general anxiety disorder, the inner anger experience was more than the other two groups. These results revealed some similar aspects of two disorders that could be useful in the pathological and treatment processes.

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most prevalent inflammatory disease of the joints which in addition to physical disability, psychological distress is frequently seen in the individuals suffering from this disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Obsessive beliefs in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients and to compare it with the prevalence of obsessive beliefs in healthy people. In a causal-comparative study, 100 persons (50 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 50 healthy peoples) were selected using convenience sampling method and Demographic questionnaire and Obsessive beliefs (OBQ-44) scale were completed. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and statistical analysis Independent T-test. The results showed that 92% of RA patients were eligible of obsessive beliefs and as for the components of obsessive beliefs 88% of them were eligible in the field of "Perfection and certainty", 84% in the field of " sense of responsibility and risk assessment and threat", 50% in the field of "the importance and thought control", 42% in the field of "common factor" and 8% in the field of "complete doing of the affairs". A Comparison of the two groups showed that in the field of "obsessive beliefs (total) ", "Perfection and certainty", "sense of responsibility and threat assessment" and "common factor " there was significant difference, but in the fields of "the importance of thought control" and "complete doing of the affairs " there was no significant difference.In people feeling a force to put into action the obsessive thoughts, mental pressure created through obsessive beliefs can distort the performance of the immune system and can cause inflammatory disorders like rheumatoid arthritis.

This study aimed to examine the relationship between marital intimacy, spiritual beliefs, religious practices and family cohesion and adaptability. In this descriptive correlation, of the employees and students of Shahrood and Miami cities (two cities located in Semnan province, Iran) 234 married men and women were selected through cluster sampling method. To collect the data, marital intimacy, spiritual experience and family cohesion and adaptability scales were used. The collected data were analyzed through Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis using SPSS-16. Results of regression analysis showed that openness (a subscale of marital intimacy), finding a meaning in life and relationship with god (subscales of spirituality) had a significant role in the prediction of family cohesion respectively. Furthermore, intimacy problems (a subscale of marital intimacy), and socioreligious activities (subscales of spirituality) had a role in the prediction of family adaptability respectively. It seems that people with high spirituality who experienced intimate relationships in marital lives reported high family cohesion and adaptability.