KNOWLEDGE & RESEARCH IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2008 | Volume:10 | Issue:37|Papers Count:10

The research was conducted to investigate the Comparison of Rational Emotive Behavior Couple individual and conjoint Therapy on marital conflicts in couples referred to Ahvaz Counsel Centers for Problem Disclosure. The population included and couples referred to this counsel. The sample consisted of 36 couples (from 150 couples) who were selected randomly for this study. In this study the individual and conjoint couple Therapy is considered the independent variable and marital conflicts as dependent variable the instrument was used Marital Conflict Questionnaire. The design of this study was pretest-post test with control group. All subjects answered scale, and then the experimental groups received intervention (during 7 sessions). At post test stage 3 groups answered the scales again. Descriptive and inferential statistic methods including one-way ANOVA, and (HSD) Tukey were used. Porbable error of a=0.05 was used to find the significance of the differences. The results of this study showed that individual and conjoint methods reduce the marital conflict among cuples in the experimental groups. Total marital conflicts, Sexual relationship and financial instruct were reduced more by individual method. Aplication of individual and conjoint methods had no significal difference on reduction of other sub scales.

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of winning / losing on profiles of mood states and salivary cortisol concentration in female handball player. The methodology used in this study was quasi-experimental design. The subjects were (10) healthy female university students whit mean age 22.80±1.78 yr, height 163.87±4.90 cm and weight 59.97±6.21 kg who were members of a handball club. Salivary cortisol were measured in samples taken 30 min and 5 min before, during and 5 min and 30 min after a handball competition and were determined by ELISA. Profiles of mood states (POMS) were obtained before (Pre) and after competition (Post). The validity and reliability hawe been reported in literature. Data were analyzed by using repeated measures ANOVA and Pearson correlation. The differences were accepted at alpha (P<0.05). In the samples taken after playing handball, there was an incensement in the levels of salivary cortisol, and the profile of mood states score increased significantly during competition compared with pre (P<0.05). The results suggest that cortisol changes during handball competition are influenced by winning or losing.

The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of Cognitive Group Therapy based on Rational- Emotive Behaviour Techniques and Homeopathy in the treatment of Depression. For this reason, among the patients consulting to Isfahan psychiatric clinic (Noor), having obtained a score between 17 to 30 on the Beck' s Depression Inventory, and further diagnosed by a psychiatrist assessment to have been suffering from Depression, 30 female patients were selected and assigned to 2 experimental groups randomly. 10 weekly sessions of Cognitive Group Therapy based on Rational- Emotive Behavioral techniques was administered to the experimental group (1). The subjects of Homeopathy group by kind permission of the psychiatrist were referred to the homeopath and treated by the homeopathic remedies for 6 months, individually. At the end of interventions, the Beck's Depression Inventory was administered to both experimental groups as post-test for the second time. The measuring instruments were: Psychiatric assessment, Demographic questionnaire and Beck's Depression Inventory. Data analysis involved both descriptive and inferential statistics including: Frequency, Frequency percentage, Covariance and dependent T-test. The results of data analysis revealed that both therapeutic methods were effective in the treatment of Depression (P£0.05). No differences among treatment conditions at post-test were observed (P£0.05).

The purpose of this research is study the effect of life skills to mother in order to behavior problems decrease of students in primary schools in Isfahan. This half experimental research is pre-exam, sup-exam type with controls group. Statistical’s social is made up of students in elementary school (include third grade till five grade in Isfahan between the years of 86-87). The way of sampling in research in order to selection of schools is life a cluster in poly stage and in order to selection of examination is based on the advantage of their behavior problems. So between the five regions of education in Isfahan, one of them accidentally was selected. And then of this region, one primary schools accidentally was selected for girls and the other one was selected for boys. Between these two elementary schools they did test the student in 3rd grad. And about 96 student who had behavior problems were distinguished and were selected as statistical’s sample and then were divided into exam and control group. It was given some life skills to mothers in exam group during 9 sessions. The result of research showed that teaching of life skills to mothers in exam group to compare with control group is decreasing students’ problems.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between adult attachment styles and organizational citizenship behaviors among employees of an industrial factory in Isfahan province. In this study adult attachment styles were predictive variables and organizational citizenship behaviors and it’s dimensions were criterion variables. In this study, 183 employees of an industrial factory in Isfahan province were selected via simple random sampling. Subjects were to complete Adult Attachment Inventory (AAI), and Extra-Role Behaviors Inventory (ERBI). Correlation and stepwise regression analyses were used to analyze the data of this study. The results showed that participant with secure attachment styles have exhibited much more organizational citizenship behaviors than participant with avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles. In addition, the results also showed that predictive variables have meaningful contribution in prediction of the criterion variables. The results also showed that adult attachment style is able to predict organizational citizenship behaviors in a powerful manner.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between mother's attitudes towards children practices with child perception of those styles, locus of control and self-concept. The sample consisted of 388 third grade males in the junior high school students and their literate were selected from five educational districts in Tehran who completed the parental Authority Questionnaire, Parenting Style Survey, Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale and Tennessee Self-concept Test. The data were analyzed using correlational and one-way-analysis of variance. The results of the study are so follow: The relationship between nother's attitude toward childrearing practice and child's perception of those styles was not statistically significant. The relationship between mother's attitude toward childrearing practice, child locus of control and self-concept were not significant, but the relationship between child's perceptions of their mother's parenting style, child's locus of control and self-concept were statistically significant. The relationship between locus of control and self-concept was also statistically significant.

Purpose of this study was to explore relationship between human factors which are effective on productivity, leadership style and organizational commitment among Iran Telecommunication Company employees 50 senior managers and 260 inferior employees were selected as sample Using stratified random sampling and answered to research tools containing effective human factors and obstacles on productivity questionnaire, Leadership style questionnaire, Leadership Behavior Description questionnaire and Organizational Commitment questionnaire. Based on obtained results, there are significant relations between senior manager's attitude to effective human factors on productivity and organizational commitment of inferiors and commitment of inferiors at the and between senior manager's attitude and their leadership style. Also there was no significant relation between effective human factors on productivity and description of leadership behavior in inferiors.

This research is about the expressed emotions in the complete works of lyrical poems from Attar, Molavy, Sady, Hafez and Sahriar. Sample was chosen by random and analyzed by a valiable and reliable (a=0.90) chek list. Research findings indicated 5 to 19 percent of complete works to express clear emotion. Types of emotions including Love emotion, sadness and then happiness had high frequency. These positive and negative emotions had high intensity. Expressed emotions in the poems are different in each poem book and they match with the features of each poet s personality and they show certain personality-emotional type of the poets expressing emotions of high intensity.