KNOWLEDGE & RESEARCH IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2009 | Volume:11 | Issue:39|Papers Count:8

The purpose of this study was to compare the neuroticism of abusive and non-abusive and hus bands their demographic characteristics in Isfahan as perceived by their wives. The wives of both abusive and non-abusive husbands in Isfahan constitute the population of the study. The population of the wives of abusive-husbands (50) and the population of the wives of non-abusive husbands (50) were selected via, respectively, random sampling and cluster random sampling techniques. In the present study a short-form Questionaire of five important personality traits (R) with the correlation Validity, coefficient of 0/86 and a demographic questionaire was used to collect data from the populations. Results indicate that, according to an analysis of covariance, there is a significant difference as far as Neuroticism (p<0.05) are concerned. Abusive husbands tend to be higher Neuroticism as compared to non-abusive husbands. the comparison of the demographic characteristics between abusive and non-abusive husbands showed that, except for age (p>0.05), there is significant difference as regard to profession, educational status, marriage age, marriage type (interrelative marriage vs. out-of-relative marriage) and the number of siblings.

This research was administered with the aim of investigating the role of job characteristics, transformational leadership and goal difficulty on employees, performance… Research statistical population were the personnel of minerals and industries Holding of Ehya Folad Sepahan company in autumn 1388 (2500 persons), which from them, 329 persons was selected using two stage sampling. Research instruments including; transformational leadership with 22 items (with four subscales, namely group goals, personal support, intellectual role model and high performance expectancies), goal difficulty with 5 items, job characteristics with 23 items (with 5 subscales, skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback) and job performance with 6 items (with three subscales, general performance, technical performance, and interpersonal performance). Data were analyzed with the use of Pearson's correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis. The results of stepwise regression analysis showed that for prediction of general job performance, goal difficulty, skill variety and high performance expectancies, for prediction of technical job performance, group goals, goal difficulty and high performance expectancies, for prediction of interpersonal job performance, goal difficulty, skill variety and intellectual role model and for prediction of total performance, skill variety, goal difficulty and high performance expectancies have highest predictive power for prediction respectively (P<0/01).

This research has studied the effects of life skills training on personal relationship, self esteem and assertiveness of blind girls at isfahan Fatemeh Zahra blind rehabilitation center in 2007.This has been a sub experimental research and used pre-test, post-test plan with a control group. The used tools in this research about subscale of personal relationship come from exciting intelligence questionnaire of Brad berry and Griaves-self-esteem questionnaire of Rosenberg assertiveness questionnaire of Alberti and Emmons and researcher constructed demographic questionnaire. Whole blind girls of this rehabilitation center made researching statistical community. So, the girls of 20 to 40 years old received attention for researching, because, they could understand the sessions better.26 girls selected randomly among them and arranged in 2 experimental and control groups Life skills taught to experimental group during 9 sessions, each 2 hours and 2 sessions in a week. multivariate analysis of variance result showed that that life skills training had meaningful and positive effect on self-esteem and assertiveness of blind girls of experimental group (P£0/001), but had no meaningful effect on their personal relation- ships (P³0 /05).

The aim of this study was to investigate of the influence of eye fixation and eye tracking Exercises on attention improvement and impulsivity reduction in ADHD children.Subjects were 17 (12 male and 5 female) preschool and school age children diagnosed as ADHD on the basis of DSM - IV - T criteria and behavior observation and interview in counseling centers in Marvdasht city. In a pre-test/post-test without control group design, subjects were administered 12 week eye fixation and eye tracking exercises. Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic parent rating Scale (ADPRS) and Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic teacher rating Scale (ADTRS) complicated as measure of attention deficit and impulsivity. Data analysis indicates significant improvement in attention and reduction in impulsivity of ADHD children from parents and teachers point of view (p<0.5).

Aim of present study was examining the effect of family Communication patterns, included conversation and conformity aspects on resiliency. The sample group included 200 – girls (100) and boys (100) on first bachelor student’s year. Scale for Adult Resilience and revised version of Family Communication Patterns Questionnaire were used. Cronbach alpha coefficient was calculated in order to determine of reliability of the measures. For testing validity of the instruments factor analysis method were used. The results showed acceptable reliability and validity of the instruments. By using ANOVA and regression the effect of Communication patterns on resiliency was verified.Results showed that conversation orientation is positive predictor (0/001) and conformity orientation is negative predictor of resiliency (0/005).Results also found significant differences on resiliency between types of family in communication pattern (0/001).

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of rehabilitation course of Psychological services in negative self concept, anxiety, Repression and self esteem addicted men in therapeutic community center of Ahwaz in 2007-2008. Research plan is of quasiexperimental "pretest- posttest" with one group. The sample of the research were 50 men from the well being – volantry in therapeutic community center in Ahwaz. the tools of the research are Rogers's self concept test, Cattel's anxiety test, Beck' s depression test and Copper Smith's self esteem test. the results show that the presentation of the psychological services in therapeutic community center of Ahwaz reduced the mean of negative self concept, depression, anxiety and increased the mean of self esteem in the addicted men.

The goal of the present research was the comparative study of social understanding in Student’s with & without Hearing Impairment in Shiraz. The subject of the examination included two groups of Student’s with Hearing Impairment (40 girls and 40 boys) and two groups of Student’s without Hearing Impairment (40 girls and 40 boys). The instrument that was used in this study was Bosacki's (1998) Social Understanding scale. Social Understanding scale include 4 dimensions (conceptual role taking, empathetic sensitiveity, person perception). Validity of scales was confirmed via internal consistency and their reliability was proved via cronbach’s alpha. The data analyzed with using correlation, ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that group differences were significant, the mean score for without hearing impairment are reported to be significantly more than with hearing impairment in social understanding. However, sex differences were no significant. Also results revealed that father’s education and job have significant relation with social understanding. The results multiple regression revealed that father’s education and job predict social understanding positively.