SOCIOLOGY OF WOMEN (JOURNAL OF WOMAN AND SOCIETY)
Year:2010 | Volume:1 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

The aim of this study was to study migrants' marital satisfaction in the southern oil-producing regions along with the factors affecting it. This survey research was conducted using a questionnaire. The sample of the study included 300 migrant couples selected randomly from among all couples who were living in Jam city at the time of research. Research findings indicated that most of the families were young with an average age difference of 7 years. A considerable percentage of them (around 40 percent) had kinship relationship. Most the families came from Bousher province. The main problems of these families, as indicated by the survey, related to welfare and educational facilities. The main assets of the region, from the respondents' viewpoint were security and being together as a family.Study findings also indicated that martial satisfaction of native people, housewives, safe people, couples with kinship relations and arbitrary migrants was more than that of couples in other categories. Regression analysis, further, revealed that interference from their families, sex, joint entertainment facilities, educational level, mental health, relationship with their families, age and friendship groups, in order of level of effect, had substantial impact on marital satisfaction. They, altogether, accounted for around 47 percent of the variation of the dependent variable.

Families are the most important institutions in human societies in which individuals' personality takes shape. This study aimed to investigate social-cultural factors affecting families' mental health quality through a survey research method using a questionnaire. The sampling frame of the study consisted of all families in which the couples lived together in Shiraz in 1384. Drawing on a random stratified sampling strategy 386 families were selected as the sample of the study. Data analysis indicated that there was significant relationship between the age of respondents, sex, income, education, occupation, household size, social capital, religiosity orientation and self-esteem with mental health. Further analysis of the data employing regression technique revealed that the income of family, age, self-esteem, social capital, religiosity orientation and education accounted for about 30% the dependent variable. In addition, Path analysis conducted suggested that religious orientation had the highest impact on the dependent variable

This research was undertaken to investigate the relationship between parents' child rearing approaches and girls' shyness in Noorabad Mamasani city. A use was made of random stage cluster sampling strategy in this survey research to draw a sample of high school students. Using Stanford shyness and parents' conduct instruments data was collected. The reliability of the instruments was established by Cronbach's alpha at a=0.78 and a=0.72 respectively. In order to analyze the data, a use was made of Pearson correlation, t and f tests. The findings of the study indicated that there was a significantly positive relation between parents' rearing approaches, expectations and independence in personal affairs and girls' shyness. There was, also, a significantly negative relation between tender rearing and order of the birth and shyness. The first child and among students of different study orientations (nature science, mathematics and humanities) students of mathematics tended to be shyer.   The results of the study carry the implication that, to the extent possible, parents should use more tender rearing approaches and retain independence in their personal affairs.

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of narrative therapy approach in reducing women's depression. This study was based on a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test research design. This study drew on a convenient sample of 20 women from Marvdasht who were diagnosed to be depressed. After taking a pretest they were randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control each consisting of 10 participants. The experimental group was treated utilizing narrative therapy approach, whereas the control group received no treatment. Then both groups took the post-test. The research instruments included Beck Depression Questionnaire, Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire and Dysfunctional Attitudes Questionnaire. Data analysis using t-test indicated that the depression symptoms level, negative automatic thoughts and dysfunctional attitudes of the experimental group lowered in comparison to those in the control group.

This study aimed to examine mental health, self-esteem and responsibility differences between the guidance school girl students from the divorced families (under the supervision of the mother) and normal families. This causal–comparative study drew on a sample of 80 girl students (40 from divorced and 40 from normal families) selected out of a sampling frame of all guidance school students of Firuzabad city in the school year 1387-1388. These students were chosen using initially random and then continence sampling strategies. In this study four instruments were employed; a mental health questionnaire, Copper-Smith self-esteem questionnaire, Harrison-Guff responsibility questionnaire and a researcher-made questionnaire comprising 28, 58, 42, and 6 questions respectively. All sample students fill out the questionnaires. The collected data was analyzed using independent t test. Data analysis revealed that there was a significant difference between girl students from divorced and normal families in terms of mental health, self-esteem and responsibility as a consequence of the impact of divorce of parents on children.

This multipurpose study was primarily concerned with understanding women's motivation to participate in professional and educational activities and specifying the impact of determinant factors on their willingness to take part in such activities. More specifically this study strived to answer the following question; what are the Iranian women's motivations to participate in social activities (in terms of educational and employment variables)? A researcher-made questionnaire whose reliability and validity was established was administered to 360 women in Semnan selected by random stratified sampling. The findings of the study indicated that their motivation for the most part rest on social and cultural factors. It can be interpreted that they try to gain benefit of these two factors in their social participation. However their financial and psychological motivation to work and to pursue education play an important role as they regard employment and education as a support to their financial independence and as they endeavor to win promotion to higher social and financial ranks in society. But it should be noted that women with university education in their pursuit of employment and education try to secure their individual, familial and social rights. Additionally, through establishing their social relations with the world around they raise the possibility to make a more favorable choice to marry.

In this study, the relationship between life expectancy and psychological perseverance was investigated among students of Azad University of Gachsaran (both boys and girls) in 2005-2006. Participants were 85 girls and 247 boys that were selected through random sampling among fourteen majors from three groups of humanities, engineering, and medicine-related majors. They all answered Miller’s life expectancy questionnaire and the perseverance inventory, AHI. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and Pearson coefficients were used. Results showed that there is a meaningful relationship between life expectancy and perseverance among students. Also, the results of multiple regression analysis showed that the combination of life expectancy, marriage, and age accounted for Mr=0.56, Rs=0.32 of hardiness among students of university which was meaningful at p=0.0001.

The present study evaluated and compared the relationship between marital satisfaction and personality traits among employed women. More specifically, the relationship between irritability, extroversion, openness, agreeability, conscienceless and marital satisfaction was explored. 200 hundred employed women were selected using stage cluster sampling from among all women in Kazeroon. Two data collection instruments were used: Anrych marital satisfaction questionnaire with 47 items and Neo personality questionnaire which contained 60 items. Regression analysis, correlation and ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The following correlation coefficients were found between marital satisfaction and each of the personality traits: irritability (-0.22), extroversion (-0.09), openness (0.18), agreeability (0.11) and conscientiousness. Among the obtained correlations, the correlations between irritability and marital satisfaction and that of openness and marital satisfaction were statistically significant. The former was a negative and the latter was a positive correlation. Other components, though showing some relations, were not meaningfully correlated. The overall picture shows that personality traits have the potential of predicting marital satisfaction.