KNOWLEDGE & RESEARCH IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2017 | Volume:18 | Issue:3 (69) |Papers Count:17

The present study compared the spirituality of three group of women with depression, anxiety and normal control. The subjects consisted of women with depression, anxiety and normal. With the use of available sampling30 depressed women and 30 anxious women who referred to consulting centers in Isfahan in year 2014, were referred to the researchers; Also 30 normal women without the history of psychiatric disorders were selected. The questions were consisted of the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Spirituality tendency inventory. Results of analysis of variance showed the difference between the three groups of depressed, anxious and normal people was significant in spirituality(p<0.01). Also, the spirituality of normal women were higher than women with depression or anxiety (p<0.04). But there was no significant difference between the two group depressed and anxious (p<0.01).

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of Barkley’s parenting program education on mental health of mothers of boys 7 to 12 years old, with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in elementary school. The research was semi experimental with Pre-test, post-test and with experimental and control group. The sample of research were 30 mothers of boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They were selected randomly from of school boys in Isfahan. They were tested in terms of attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder, all of whom had scores above average. Then their mothers purposefully were selected and then randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. Mothers in the experimental group received 8 sessions of Barkley’s parenting education. The subjects Were evaluated by the Mental Health Inventory (before and after intervention), The research hypothesis was that Barkley’s parenting education has effect on mental health of mothers of boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The data were analyzed using the Multivariate covariance. The results showed that Barkley’s parenting education was significantly effective on improving the mental health of mothers in the experimental group (P<0.0005). The results also showed that the program was significantly effective on three subscales of mental health: Somatic symptoms, anxiety and sleep disorders, and depression (P<0.0005). The results related to social functioning subscale represents have not change scores (P>0.081), and The intervention could not have been effective on the following scale.

The main purpose of this research was to study the effect of participative leadership on perceived job security with considering Mediating role of psychological healthy workplace. The study was correlational and population included all employees of the Isfahan Irik steel company (working there, in winter 1394). Of which, 160 people were selected through convenience sampling method. Research instruments consisted of Participative Leadership Questionnaire by Nemaei (2012), Psychological Healthy Workplace Questionnaire by Mehdad (2011) and Perceived Job Security Questionnaire by Fransis & Barling (2005). Data were analyzed with use of Structural Equation Model (SEM) and result revealed that there is significant direct effect of participative leadership on psychological healthy workplace, psychological healthy workplace on perceived job insecurity and participative leadership on perceived job insecurity (p£0.01). Moreower, there are significant indirect effect of participative leadership on perceived job insecurity through psychological healthy workplace (p£0.01). Hence, psychological healthy workplace could significantly mediate participative leadership style and perceived job security relationships and based on research’s results, psychological healthy workplace could be increased through participative leadership style and perceived job security could be increased through psychological healthy workplace.

This study aimed to assess the effect of relaxation on depression, anxiety and HbA1c in type I diabetic women. In this study which was a quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group, the population was all type I diabetic women which referred to the Diabetes Clinic in Kermanshah. The 24 of patients were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. For pre-test the scores of Beck Depression Inventory, Spielberger anxiety and HbA1c tests were recorded. Then the experimental group during a nine-week (twice a week) participated in relaxation session and after three month subjects in both groups were post-tested. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, Levene Test, analysis of covariance were used. In the post test there was no significant difference in average depression scores of two groups (p= 3.07) but, trait anxiety average, state anxiety average and blood glucose of experimental group were decreased significantly in comparison to pre-test (p= 34.14, p= 11.16, p= 10.8). So, it concluded that relaxation decreases anxiety and helps to better control of blood glucose in type I diabetic women but, this technique which has been used in this study was not effective in reducing depression in these patients.

This study aimed to determine compare attachment styles, alexithymia, and sexual function in the patients with tension headache and healthy individuals. This study was a comparative research. The study population consisted of male patients with tension headache, who were referred to the Neurology Clinic of Karaj City as well as their non-patient relatives who had the inclusion criteria. Using the convenience sampling, 62 patients with tension headache and 62 controls were chosen. In order to collect information, a questionnaire of alexithymia (Toronto) (1994), attachment styles (Collins and Reid) (1990), International Index of Erectile Function (Rosen, Riley, Wagner, Osterloh, Kirkpatrick, Mishra,) (1997) was used. Data were analyzed using univariate analysis of variance. The results showed there was a significant difference between the components attachment styles (secure and avoidant).alexithymia (lack of sentimentality and externally oriented thinking) and sexual function (erectile function, orgasmic performance, libido) between the patients with tension headache and healthy subjects (P£0.01).

In this study the role of self-compassion and flourishing as predictors for marital happiness was investigated. For this purpose, 140 married women Isfahan city were selected by available sampling method and and Marital Happiness Scale (Tgryan, 1387), Self-Compassion (Neff, 2003) and Flourishing (Diener, 2009) responded. Data was analyzed by using multiple regression analysis Results showed that flourishing and self- compassion were capable of predicting the Marital happiness but among the six subscales of self-compassion (self- kindness, self–judgment, common humanity, mindfulness, isolation and over-identification) only variable mindfulness predicted marital happiness. As a result can marital happiness married women based on personality traits (self- compassion and flourishing) they explained (p <0.001).

The study aimed to predict depression by cognitive emotion regulation strategies and marital satisfaction in women. The study population consisted of all married women in Isfahan, from among them 400 persons were selected by simple random sampling. Data were collected through a four questionnaire including Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski, 2001), Enrich Marital Satisfaction (Fowers & Olson, 1989), DASS-21 Questionnaire (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) and demographic characteristics. - Results of regression analysis showed marital relatives 17.7%, Catastrophizing 11.6%, other blame 4.4%, positive refocusing 3.5%, education 1.6%, self-blame 1.2%, friends 0.9% and these seven variables anticipated 40.9% of depression. According to the results, Catastrophizing, other blame, positive refocusing and self-blame among cognitive emotion regulation strategies and marital relatives and friends among levels of marital satisfaction can be assumed as structures that are related to depression symptoms in married women and study them as an important factor in relation to prevention and treatment.

The aim of the current research was to predict job stress on the basis of coping strategies, spiritual intelligence and resilience in employees with chronic pains in national Iranian south oil fields company. The subjects were 130 employees whom were selected randomly by simple sampling procedure from the medical records available in the industrial medicine center with chronic pain diagnosis. To collect data Endler and Parket job stress questionnaire (1990), Abdulah-Zadeh et al. Spiritual intelligence scale (2008), Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale (2003) and Job Stress (1990) were implemented. The results by regression analysis showed that problem solving, emotional and avoiding coping strategies respectively were good predictors for the criterion variable of job stress (p£0.0001). Therefore by increasing proper and effective problem solving skills, job stress emerging especially in the employees suffering from chronic pain may be either decreased or the pain suffering could be kept under controlled.

This study aimed at predicting employees' productivity according to executive intelligence and organizational intelligence in Islamic Azad University Isfahan branch. Descriptive statistical correlation was conducted in this research. The study population included a total of 515 of all managers and staff of Islamic Azad University Isfahan branch. 220 people were chosen as the sample population using convenience sampling and Cochren formula. Data were collected with Productivity Standard Questionnaire (Hersey & Goldsmith 1980), Executive Intelligence Questionnaire (researcher-made) and Organizational Intelligence Questionnaire (Albercht 2003). To analyze the data, simple regression analysis were used. The results of regression analysis showed that organizational intelligence (b= 0.426) and executive intelligence (b= 0.440) can predict employees’ productivity at a significant level (p<0.05).

This study has been implemented to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Positive Psychological Capital Scale. The population of this study consisted of all staff of six education districts in the year of 1394 that 325 of them were sampled by share-based stratified random sampling based on sample size formula, Cohen et al (2000) and were taken Positive Psychological Capital Scale Luthans et al (2007). Research used Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis for the validity based on Structural Equation Model. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for positive psychological capital scale was 0.89 and for optimism, hope, resilience, and self-efficacy subscales in order were 0.70, 0.83, 0.73, and 0.87. results of one factor and four factor confirmatory analysis based on Luthans et al theoretical model showed that four factor model has more favorable goodness of fit indexes than one factor model. Fit indexes are favorable. The correlation between total positive psychological capital scale with optimism, hope, resiliency and self-efficacy factors respectively is 0.76, 0.87, 0.88, and 0.84, which shows a good validity. The correlation between the factors is between 0.41 and 0.62, which is significant at level (P<0.01). In order to evaluate the differential validity of the positive psychological capital scale, simultaneous implementation of Counterproductive Workplace Behavior (CBW) scale was used. The result showed that the positive and negative anticipatory capital scale had a negative correlation (-0.39). There is no significant difference between the positive psychological capital of the staff of the six education areas at level (P<0.05), but there is significant difference between the level of psychosocial capital of the male and female education staffs in the level (P <0.05). Based on these results, this scale which has reliability and validity can be considered for future researches.

The purpose of this study was to determine role of self-efficacy beliefs and achievement motivation in predicting test anxiety in students with learning disabilities. This research is a correlation study. From among all students of primary school (girl and boy) with learning disabilities in Ardabil in 2015, and using a stratified sampling procedure a sample of 60 students with LD was selected. Data were collected using general self-efficacy questionnaire of Scharer and et al. and achievement motivation questionnaire (AMQ) of Hermans and Ahvaz test anxiety inventory. The result of inter regression showed that self-efficacy and achievement motivation explained 43 percent of variance of test anxiety in students with LD. The result indicated that strength of self-efficacy beliefs and high levels of achievement motivation increases test anxiety in students with LD. The findings imply that improvement of self-efficacy beliefs and achievement motivation should be important in the educational and counseling services provided for students with LD.

The present study investigated the effectiveness of self-compassion training on the increase mothers´ resiliency with autistic children by the quasi-experimental method and was performed by pre-test and post-test with the control group. The population under study was mothers of children with autism who referred to the Center of Yavarane Zeinab in Esfahan. Twenty-four mothers who were selected randomly and assigned to experimental and control groups completed the autism Scale (Cars, 1988) and resilience Scale (Conner and Davidson, 2003) were used. Experimental group trained weekly 7 sessions of self- compassion in two-hour and the control group did not receive any intervention. At the end of training, both groups were assessed. Data were analyzed by analysis of covariance. The results showed that the teaching of self- compassion significantly contributed to the resilience of participation people and mothers in the experimental group showed significantly increased (P<0.001) in resiliency. According to the findings of this study self- compassion can be offered as an effective method to increase the resilience of mothers of children with autism.