KNOWLEDGE & RESEARCH IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2007 | Volume:9 | Issue:31|Papers Count:10

The research studies the efficiency of the individual method of guided imagery on the amount to anxiety and hope for life in women suffering from breast cancer at Radiotherapy Ward of Cancer Institute of Emam Khomeini Tehran Hospital. To conduct this research, first 36 patients were selected voluntarily and were randomly put into 3 groups (1control and 2 experiments.) At this stage, 6 people who were remarkably different from the others based on demographic information were deleted and the volume of the sample reached 30. Then, the degree of anxiety and hope for life in patients was evaluated once before and once after implementing the guided Imagery method (positive and direct willful suggestions about disease-control and recovering health) by HERTH hope index and SPIELBERGER anxiety inventory. But the difference here is that no interference was made in control group, whereas one of the experiment groups was traineds in 7 sessions and the other in 15 sessions. Finally, to analyze the data, the average calculation, criteria deviation and one-way variance analysis and Sheffe follow-up test. The results indicated that the individual guided imagery method is very useful in reducing state anxiety, total anxiety and also increased hope for life in women suffering from breast cancer (p=0.001<0.05). Moreover, it was found that hope for life is greater in persons who have used guided Imagery method for sessions than in the persons who used these classes for 6 sessions (p=0.014<0.05). But there was no difference between these two groups from the viewpoint of the level of state anxiety (p=0.187<0.05) and total anxiety (p=0.076<0.05).

Premenstrual syndrome exists when women complain of regularly recurring psychological symptoms as irritability, anxiety, tension, aggression or somatic symptoms as bloating, weight gain, nostalgia, or both which occur specifically during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Symptoms can be severe enough to disrupt everyday life. The etiology of the PMS has not been confirmed yet. However, to relieve the Symptoms, a variety of treatment methods focusing on safe exercise are recommended. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of running and walking exercises for  weeks on premenstrual in high school non-athlete girl students in Ahwaz city. The subjects were grouped randomly to three consisting of "running group" (n=25) "walking group" (n=25) and "control group" (n=25). Having finished the reexamining stage, filling the premenstrual syndrome questionnaire and gaining the primary results, the running group did aerobic running for 8 weeks and 3 sessions each week, each session lasting 45 min. The maximum heart rate was 65-70 percent. The walking group for 8 weeks walked 30 min each day for 5 sessions in each week at normal, fast and slow paces. The control group did not do exercises. Having finished the second stage, the examinees filled the premenstrual syndrome questionnaire after 4 weeks for the second time and after  weeks for the third time. To analyze the data used for ANOVA and Tukey test at the level of. 0.05 The results showed, there was a great decrease in the physical and mental symptoms of PMS of the walking group and only in the physical symptoms they were the same for the running group. Comparing the results of the running group with those of the walking group and control group there was a great decrease in the physical symptoms of PMS. It was walking group for which there was a great decrease in symptoms when compared with the running group. Thus, we can say that the decrease in the physical symptoms of PMS for the running group was greater than that for other groups.

The purpose of this research was investigating relationship between just world beliefs with general health, life satisfaction, positive and negative affect and automatic thoughts. In this regard, from statistical population (total of males and females habitants in Isfahan) 300 persons for answer to the research questionnaires randomly selected with using multi-stage sampling. Five questionnaires used in this research: general health (with four subscales), life satisfaction, positive and negative affect, automatic thoughts and just world beliefs for self and others. The data analyzed with using Pearson's correlation coefficient and enter and stepwise regression analysis. The results showed that, there is negative significant correlation between general health subscales and life satisfaction with just world beliefs for self and others (P<0.01). The another section of results showed that there is negative significant correlation between positive affect with just world beliefs for self and others but positive significant correlation between negative affect and just world beliefs for self and other (P<0.01) Also automatic thoughts have positive significant correlation with just world beliefs for self and others (P<0.01). The results of enter regression analysis showed that from total of research variables, only life satisfaction have predictive power for prediction of just world beliefs for self and others. Also stepwise regression analysis showed that from total of research variables, only life satisfaction and depression have predictive power for prediction of just world beliefs for self and others.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between affective family functioning and creativity in 4 th and 5th grades of elementary school students in Isfahan. The correlation approach was used in this study. Therefore 90 male and 90 female students were randomly selected from the 4 th and 5 th grades.The students answered the word association test (items creativity) and one of their parents answered the affective family functioning and the demographic questionnaire items. The family functioning sub-scales were: Relations, roles, problem solving, affective response, affective involvement, and functioning. It was hypothesized that there would be significant relation ships between creativity and family functioning sub-scale scores. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between creativity and affective responding (p<0.05), and between creativity and affective involvement (p<0.01). The relationships between creativity and the rest of the family functioning sub-scale scores were not significant. Girls scored significantly higher than did boys on the word association test (p<0.05).

The purpose of this research was to determine the share of each employment status, marital status, education, degree of disability and gender variables in predicting the mental health of the physically disabled.The subjects consisted of 100 members of Isfahani Society of the Disabled who had been randomly selected. To assess the mental health of the physically disabled, the General Health questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used. The results of stepwise regression analysis showed that employment status can significantly predict the rate of mental health in the physically disabled (p=0.006) and adding the marital status variable to employment status variable increases significantly the predicting power of their mental health (p=0.003) but adding any one ok education degree of disability and gender variables to the employment status and marital status variables can not increase significantly the predicting power of the mental health in the physically disabled.

This research studied the psychological perseverance and progression motivation with vocational weariness among the employees of the Sixth district of Islamic Azad university in Khoozestan province. Therefore, based on Stratified random sampling, 211 employees were selected (126 male and 85 female) among those who were non-faculty members but employed in different Islamic Azad universities of this district.discription questionnaire. Moslech' svocational weariness scale. Validity and reliability of coefficients of research instruments were significantly meaningful. Data were analyzed through Pearson correlation analysis, multivariable regression analysis and MONOVA. The results revealed that there was a negative relationship between psychological perseverance and progression motivation with vocational weariness in (P<0.05). There were not meaningful relationship between variance of gender, marital status, job experience, profetional status and the kind of university.

The purpose of this research is to study the relation between factors causing conflict and solving them. To reach this purpose a research question was prepared which was based on two main and three questions. The statistical society under study consisted of the office employee of the Islamic Azad University of yazd. The sampling technique in this project was simple randonm. The statistical technique used in this research consisted of descriptive statistics processed over a meaningful level with P£0.5. The results showed that based on the view of the society under consideration, there was no relation between the confliding factors and the ways to solve them. Also, based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that variables such as sex (male-female), the educational degree, and experience of the employee have a relation with the ways the conflict is solved.This paper consists of three parts. In the first part, the theoretical view and the research work about the conflict have been reviewed. In the second part the method of research has been discussed and in the last part the analysis of the date and conclusion is presented.

The main purpose of this research was to study the relationship between work environment factors and organizational commitment of faculty members. In this study, the necessary information collected by implementing the work environment questionnaire and organizational commitment questionnaire on 214 part time and full time faculty members at 5 Islamic Azad universities of the eighth who were selected based on stratified random sampling. The result of research revealed that there was a significant correlation between role conflict, role overload, task identity, feedback, supervisory consideration, hierarchy of authority and formalization with organizational commitment. According to the environment factors, it was possible to suggest an equation for predicting organizational commitment.