KNOWLEDGE & RESEARCH IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2017 | Volume:18 | Issue:2 (68) |Papers Count:17

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of schema therapy and mindfulness on cognitive regulation of emotion adaptive strategies in psychoactive drug users. The study was a Quasi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test with control group and a follow-up period of three months. The population consisted of patients who were used go to outpatient addiction treatment center affiliated with Welfare Organization in Ahvaz in 2014. From among this population, 60 were selected using accessibility sampling and were randomly divided into two experimental groups, schema therapy and mindfulness, and one control group. One experimental group received schema therapy for 10 sessions and each session lasted one hour and the second experimental group received mindfulness- based therapy for 8 sessions and sessiont lasted for 45-minute. The subjects were evaluated with Garnefski (2002) Cognitive Regulation of Emotion Questionnaire before the initiation of treatment, the end of therapy sessions and the follow-up stages 3 months after treatment. The control group had no treatment at all. using Compare couple test(LSD) results showed that the use of Schema Therapy and Mindfulness is effective in psychoactive drug abuse. In other words, both the experimental group compared to the control group was significantly increased post-test and follow-up in adaptive strategies cognitive regulation of emotion at the level of (p<0.05) show gave. The effects of schema group therapy were much greater than a greater than mindfulness. Accordingly, it can be concluded that the prevention of psychoactive drug users, focus schema therapy and mindfulness based on cognitive regulation of emotion adaptive strategies effective.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of procedural justice on physical and psychological aggression considering moderator role of negative affect in the workplace. The population was the employees of Iran's Polyacryl Company that 279 subjects were selected through accessible sampling. Research instruments consisted of The Organizational Justice Questionnaire (Colquitt, 2001), Job Related Affects Scale (Fox & Spector, 1999) and Physical and Psychological Aggression Questionnaire (Menard &et al,2011). The results of path analysis showed that when employees perceived procedural injustice in the organization and have high negative affect, their physical and psychological violence increasesed. The results also confirmed the effect of procedural justice on physical and psychological violence considering moderator role of negative affect (P<0.01).

The aim of this research was to study the effect of functional analytic psychotherapy(FAP) on quality of life and self-esteem of prostitutes. Single-subject (A-B design) method was employed to collect the data from 3 baseline and 16 intervention sessions for 45 minutes twice a week. Two follow-up sessions were conducted 15 days and one month after the intervention. The statistical populations of this study included all prostitute women in Isfahan city in 2015- 16 that two women were selected by purposeful sampling including a married and a divorced one. Quality of life sf-36 questionnaire (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992) and Coopersmith self-esteem inventory (Coopersmith, 1967) were used to collect data. The findings of this study were analysed based on visual analysis and descriptive statistic indicators. Considering mean, median, trend and PND, the results demonstrated that the intervention was effective on increase of quality of life in both participants and increase of self-esteem in the second participant. Considering low quality of life and self-esteem among female prostitutes using Functional Analytic Psychotherapy to increase their quality of life and self-esteem is recommended.

The aim of this research was to determine the effect of training based on choice theory and rational emotive behavior therapy on academic achievement motivation and difficulty of emotional regulation. The research design was experimental, with two experimental and one control groups in a pre-test, post-test, and two-month follow-up. The population of the study consisted of female high school students in first grades in Bushehr in the academic year of 2016-2017. In order to implement the research, 60 students were selected through random selection. After performing the pre-test with McInerney the Academic Achievement Motivation Questionnaire and Gertz-Roemer's Emotional Adjustment Difficulty Questionnaire, 20 students in the intervention group were trained in the theory of rational emotive behavior therapy, and 20 subjects were randomly selected to be trained in choice theory and 20 others were the control group without any intervention. Each of the experimental groups were subjected to an intervention program for 10 sessions (2 sessions per week). The results of analysis of covariance showed that the two experimental groups assigned to the reality therapy and rational emotive behavior therapy programs in comparison to the control group significantly showed increased the academic achievement motivation and reduced difficulty of emotional regulation. The experimental group receiving the choice theory program showed more increase in the academic achievement motivation. On the other hand, the experimental group receiving the rational emotive behavior therapy showed more decrease in difficulty of emotional regulation.

This research examined the effectiveness of education training based on group narrative therapy on communicational patterns of students couples. this research, was a semi-experimental study, consisting of pre-test and post-test with control group. Statistical population of this study includes all Shahrood married university student who studies in the first three month of 2015. The sample include 16 couples (8 in control and 8 in experiment group) who were selected based on volunteer sampling. Experiment group passed a 9 sessioned narrative therapy based education, meanwhile the control group did not received any educational interventions. Two questionnaires used in this study were «Communication Patterns Questionnair Christensen & salavy, 1984». Mancovaanalysis was used as the statistical methods. results show that compared to control group, the experiment group experienced in element of mutual /constructive communicational pattern improved in the experiement group (P>0.01). Elements of mutual /avoidance communicational pattern, demand /withdraw communicational pattern, women demand / men withdraw communicational pattern, student couples men demand/women withdraw communicational pattern experienced the same decrease in experiemental group as well (P>0.01). On the basise of to find this investigation, could be concluded that narrative therapy has some unique results on the communicational patterns of the couples.

This research was conducted to examine the efficacy of the integrated self-regulation-attachment couple therpay on maritual adjustment. The research method was Semi experimental with Pretest, Posttest and a group cotrol. The statistical society were couples referred to counseling centers in Isfahan. For this purpose, 30 couples were selected on a voluntary basis from among couples who attended the counseling services centers in the City of Isfahan. Eight couples were then randomlly assigned to each of integrated self-regulation-attachment couple therapy, and a control group. Before the programs began, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (1976) was administered to all couples. Then couples of the experimental group participated in integrated self-regulation-attachment couple therapy (8 sessions). Results of MANCOVA indicated that after the control of pretest effects, the difference between mean of groups in dependent variable and its dimentions (Marital satisfaction, Marital solidarity, Marital agreement, Expression of love) was significant in couples. Therfore, results of this research indicated the effect of integrated self-regulation - attachment couple therapy on marital adjustment and its dimentions.

The aim of this study was examination of the role of organizational commitment, social support, general health and job satisfaction in predicting burnout among the staff of Social security organization at Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad. The method of this study was correlational. The statistic population was all staff of Social security organization (302 persons) at Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad in 2012. 184 persons of them were selected as sample using simple random sampling method.. The Research tool are organizational commitment questionnaire (Allen and Mayer, 1984), job satisfaction questionnaire (Brifield and Roth, 1951), general health questionnaire (Goldberg, 1972), Burnout questionnaire (Maclash and Jackson, 1993) and society support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and multiple regression. The result of this research showed that variables such as social support, job satisfaction, organization commitment and general health had negative and significant relationship with Burnout (p<0.01), and negatively able to predict burnout (p<0.05).

The aim of current study was to investigate the effect of achievement goals, academic burnout on academic performance with the mediating role of self-regulating learning of students. The type of research was descriptive and research method was correlational. The statistical population consisted of all students from University-Kashan (2066 people). The sample included 347 students were selected using stratified sampling. Research instruments were Migly, Kaplan and and Midelton’s achievement goals Scale(1998), Pintrich and Digrot’s Motivational Strategies To Learning Questionnaire(1990), Berso Et Al’s Academic Burnout Scale(1997). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results, consistent with the hypothesis showed that achievement goals (p> 0.01) in a positive way and academic burnout (p <0.05) to negatively affect academic performance. The proposed model is a good fit also view available data rates in mediating variable self-regulated learning achievement goals and academic burnout effect on academic performance was confirmed (GFI: 0.98 and RSMEA = 0.72).

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perfectionism dimensions and defensive styles in depression among Rasht Islamic Azad University student’s. 300 undergraduate university students were selected by cluster sampling and completed Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS, Hewitt & Felt, 1991) and Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40, Andrews, Singh, & Bond, 1993) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDL-II, Beck, 1961). Data were analysis using regression analysis. The results showed that the three dimensions of perfectionism {egocentric, other-oriented, community-oriented} had a significant effect on symptoms of depression. Also, the three dimensions of perfectionism had a significant effect on defense style (mature defense mechanism, immature defense mechanism, neurotic defense mechanism) (p£0.05). Results of regression analyzes revealed that mature defense style, immature and neuroticism could predict depression level in university students (p£0.05). It can be concluded that dimensions of perfectionism and defense style predict depression severity.

This research was done to examine the factor structure of Blais Self-determination Work Motivation Inventory among primary and secondary first and second teachers of northern cities of west Azarbaijan. The research population consisted of 4478 primary and secondary first and second teachers The research sample was selected by stratified multistage cluster sampling method. Research inventory was Blais Self-determination Work Motivation Inventory (1994). Confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha reliability was sused to anlyze the data. The results of confirmatory factor analysis, indicated that the six-factor model reached an acceptable fit to the data (p£0.001). The amount 0.85 for Cronbach's alpha coefficient showed that the questionnaire is reliable.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Shafiabady’s multi-axial pattern of vocational choice training on the entrepreneurial behavior of female students in the third year of secondary school (high school) of Marvdasht city. The research methodology included two groups; post-test and pre-test quasi-experimental group and control group. The statistical population included all the students in the third year of Hajar Female High School in Marvdasht. Of all the 200 students who obtained less than 10 (bellow average) in Entrepreneurial Behavior Questionnaire (Fekri, Shafiabady, Nouranipoor, and Ahghar, 2012) 30 students were randomly selected and assigned to the two control and experimental groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 1.5 hours based on multi-axial pattern while the control group received no intervention. The post-test was conducted and data were analyzed by inferential statistics (analysis of covariance). The results showed that multi-axial pattern training have a positive and meaningful effect on entrepreneurial behavior and its dimensions such as decision-making, identify opportunities, structure determination, supply of sources and conditions, and determination of objectives and strategies (p<0.05).

This study examined the effectiveness of narrative therapy on self-efficiency and achievement motivation in high school male students in the second period at Olia Jarquye. The study was semi experimental that include experimental and control groups. the study community include all high school male students in the second period at Olia jarquye area. in educational year 2015-2016.40 students were selected by random sampling method then divided into experimental and control group by random assignment method. The hypothesis of study was effectiveness of narrative therapy on self-efficiency and achievement motivation in high school male students in the second period at Olia Jarquye area. The tool of research included a questionnaire the self-effiency and achievement motivation was Hermnes 1970and Sherer 1982. The independent variable (narrative therapy)was applied on experimental group in seven 45 -minute sessions. There are scores of post-test experimental and control groups. The results showed between narrative therapy and self-efficacy (dimensions desire to initiate, expand efforts to advance) at Olia Jarquye area secondary school students, and self-efficacy score was higher in the experimental group compared to the control group (P <0.01). And also a significant difference between narrative therapy and motivation (psychological aspects, economic) secondary school students at Olia Jarquye area and score more motivation than the control group, the experimental group (P <0.01).