SOCIOLOGY OF WOMEN (JOURNAL OF WOMAN AND SOCIETY)
Year:2018 | Volume:8 | Issue:4 (32) |Papers Count:14

This research aimed to investigate the role of Six Sigma strategy in improving quality of services in Islamic Azad University Libraries from the Viewpoints of female librarians. Methodology of research was a descriptive survey. The study population consisted of all Librarians working in Libraries of Islamic Azad University branch-1 in 2014-2015. Questionnaire of Pand and Holp (2004) Six Sigma principles were used for data collection. The professors of Management and Information Sciences and knowledge verified the face validity of questionnaire and their suggestions were applied and the reliability of the questionnaire was also estimated 83% by using Cronbach’s Alpha. For testing research questions and hypotheses, one-way ANOVA and t-tests were used. The result indicated that librarians with higher education with field of library and information science have more attention to the components including focus on customer, management based on information and facts and action management in improving quality of services. In addition, result showed all variables of Six Sigma is significantly higher than desirable from the viewpoints of female librarians.

Failure of spouses to address their fundamental needs in the marriage procedure results in losing life meaning and divorce. Emotional aspects have the potential to involve couples in loneness. Regarding such situation, people should be guided before and after marriage. Forgiveness is the manner of emotional and attitude alternations of a guilty person. The present paper investigates the effectiveness of forgiveness therapy on divorce adaptation of divorced women. Statistical population of this study included divorced women resided in Shiraz in 2015. 30 people selected by simple random sampling method were divided were randomly assigned into two groups. Research tool was fisher’s 100-items questionnaire of adjustment after divorce. The obtained result was analyzed by using covariance technique. Results demonstrated that there was a significant difference between experimental and control groups. This indication means that group learning of the concept forgiveness leads to improve the level of adjustment among the divorced women.

The aim of this research was to predict disordered eating behavior accordingto one early maladaptive schema and socio cultural attitudes towards appearance. The method of present research is descriptive correlation. For this purpose, 190 female students of one to third year of high school of Shiraz were selected by cluster sampling method and completed the questionnaires. Young's schema Questionnaire short form (SQ-SF), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) Garner and Garfinkel (1979) and Socio Cultural attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire- Mail Version(SATAQ-M) were used to evaluate early maladaptive schemas (MES), disordered eating behavior(DEB) and Socio Cultural attitudes Towards Appearance. Research analyzed was conducted through the use of SPSS21 software. Pearson's correlation coefficient, showed that a significant correlation between the (DEB), MES and Socio Cultural attitudes Towards Appearance. Stepwise regression Indicated impaired autonomy, gratification impaired, restricted gratification and anxiety could predict (DEB).

The present study investigates wife abuse and its affecting factors in urban and rural areas of Ardebil province in 2016 via survey study. The sample size included 1100 women selected from urban and rural areas of Ardabil province by using stratified sampling. In order to measure wife abuse the Haj Yahy wife abuse standard questionnaire implemented in 2000 in Palestine as a measurement tool for the first time was used. Answers were collected through direct interviewees and questionnaires. The results showed that the amount of wife abuse in all areas of Ardabil province was 29.6 percent. Investigating the aspects of wife abuse, identified that financial abuse with 33.2 percent was the most of wife abuse and physical abuse with 27.2 percent, was the lowest ones. Psychological wife abuse in this study, approximately 29 percent and sexual abuse is estimated around 29.2 percent. Regression analysis of affecting factors of wife abuse showed, the independent variables such as; involvement of families, Irritation to the husband, trust between couples and learning violence in the origin family leads to a change the amount of wife abuse respectively. The independent variables explained 50 percent of variance of dependent variable.

Healthy and favorable organizational climate can improve organizational relationships and organizational performance however, unhealthy and toxic climate may create environment of suspicion and stress and have negative effects on individual performance and organizational performance. This article aims to examine the relationship between organizational toxic climate and intention to leave job. For this purpose, two variables mediating role stress and job burnout were considered in the relationship between organizational toxic climate and intention to leave job. This research is purposeful, applied and methodically descriptive of survey type. The study population consisted of 150 female nurses of Ali Ebn Abi Taleb hospital in Rafsanjan city and the data collection tool was a questionnaire. Validity and reliability the questionnaires using face validity, construct validity and Cronbach's alpha were examined. To analyze the data, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling software and smart PLS (version 2) was used. The results showed that organizational toxic climate has no directly effect on job burnout and intention to leave job but has direct and positive effect on stress. Also The results showed that stress has directly and positive effect on job burnout but no effect on intention to leave job. The results showed that the organizational toxic climate indirectly and through mediator variables stress and job burnout effect on intention to leave job.

This paper investigates the influence of social awareness on the empowerment of rural women in Zanjanrood District. In this study, qualitative- quantitative research method is used. For the part of qualitative study, some experts of social awareness of rural women are used. The population of quantitative part of this study includes 15455 women of Zanjanrood city of whom 386 persons were randomly selected as a sample. The data were gathered by using a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by faculty of Agricultural Extension and Education of Razi University and Reliability was confirmed by pretesting and calculation of alpha coefficient of 0.79. The data were analyzed by SPSS 18 software. The results showed 58 percent of rural women’s social awareness was moderate. Rural women on issues such as the right of women in prison and pay proverbs had least knowledge, but on issues such as the determination of living location and amount of daughter’s inheritance had most knowledge. The findings indicated the average amount of empowerment rural women (average of 2.8 out of 5). Linear regression was used to determine the effect of independent variables (social consciousness) on the dependent variable (empowerment). The results showed that the independent variables could explain 43% of the variability that is empowerment.

Self-Assessed health is a way to assess the quality of that information in the area of biological, mental and spiritual health function specifies. Studying on the persons' health status from their viewpoint is an important evaluation in terms of public health status of society. Health self- assessment by a person is an international known index and has a wide usage for the persons’ health status in Public Health Research and epidemiology. The aim of this study is to assess the health of the elderly in the city of Shiraz and Yasuj. The population includes elderly people over 65 years who are residents of Shiraz and Yasuj of whom 760 elders were selected as a sample by random clustering sampling method. Analysis of the data was performed by descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS software. The average of four aspects of the health was 75.18 ± 14.95 that 63.8 percent of them found their health status in the mean level. Demographic variables such as age, education, socio-economic class, employment status, marital status, ethnicity, the number of children, the history of patient had significant relation with self-assessment health. There was no significant relation between gender and health self-assessment. In addition, the cultural and social values such as health behaviors, social support, self-esteem, using media, having intimate relation with children and friends have a significant relation with self-assessment health. Determination coefficient statistic R2 also shows that 40 percent of changes of related variable (self-assessment) are explained by seven independent variables that remain in the equation and include self- esteem, the patient history, the number of children, health behavior, ethnicity, education, social support. How anybody feels about itself and how much value has considered for him, can effect on health assessment. This study showes that the status of health in Shiraz and Yasuj was in the mean level and needs the support of authorities and families.

This paper studies the semantic reconstruction of face management among female students of Islamic Azad university of Marvdasht by using interpretive research paradigm. The interpretive paradigm and qualitative approach emphasizes on the authenticity of subjectivity, meaning and self-definition of reality and people in their daily life construct the definition of social reality. The research methodology is qualitative and depth interviews are used for data collection. The sample size selected by theoretical sampling method includes thirty-seven students. Grounded theory method helped to analyze the data. the results included 10 major of categories (harvest and evaluate yourself , mental image of the face and body, pressure patterns and norms, accepted socially, face management, cultural and social contexts, consumer culture , panache ,individual and social rewards , personal and social costs) and one nuclear issue (desire and action-oriented approach appears to benefit in the sociocultural context of university).

The general goal of this research is to identify the factors associated with women's social identity in Pasargad city. The research method is survey. Multistep cluster sampling method was used. The sample consisted of 377 women aged 18 to 64 living in the central part of the city Parsagad. The questionnaire survey was completed in the autumn and winter 2015. Research instrument of the paper is a questionnaire made by the researcher. Using the theory of Giddens and Tajfel, 9 hypothesizes were written and the relationship between the 9 variables (1-age, 2-education, 3-hours of study, 4- individual skills, 5-life satisfaction, 6-employment, 7-participation in religious ceremonies, 8- membership in sport group 9, marital status) with social identity of women were studied. The validity of this research is face validity and its reliability was calculated as 0.85 by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Bivariate analysis shows the relationship between all variables except (membership in sport groups) is significant with women's Social Identities. The results of multivariate analysis using stepwise regression shows that four variables (life satisfaction, hours of study, participation in religious ceremonies and skills individual) entered the regression equation and explained 0.33 variance of the dependent variable (women's Social Identities).

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the reduction factors of rural women social exclusion in the Ardabil County. The research method was analytical -explanative survey type. The population of the study consists of all rural women living in rural areas of Ardabil County in 2017 (N=31204), among which 380 persons were selected as statistical sample by using Cochran formula. Sample size was determined based on the Cochran’s formula and the required data were collected through questionnaires. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by professors and experts and its reliability was determined based on Cronbach's alpha (0.86-0.90). For analyzing data, factor analysis model was used. The results of this model showed that the most important factors for the exclusion of rural women social involvement includes four components (reinforcement of social network and social capital, reinforcement of psychological capital and live satisfaction, economy empowerment and empowerment of life quality and cultural infrastructure and attention to education). The cumulative variance by five factors was 71.12.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among life satisfaction, marital satisfaction and sexual satisfaction and the married life quality improvement to married women in Abade city. This research is practical based on objective. Research type was descriptive-correlative. The population consisted of married women in Abadeh of which 150 were chosen as a sample using multi-stage cluster sampling method. The data collection tool were questionnaires marital satisfaction of Enrich, life satisfaction of Diener, married life quality of Fletcher and et al, and women sexual relationships of Rosen and et al. The obtained data were analyzed using Spearman's correlation coefficient and Structural equation model. The results of Spearman's correlation coefficient show that life satisfaction, marital satisfaction and satisfaction of sexual relations parameters have significant relationship separately the quality of women’s married life. However, the results of final model show that none of the variables of life satisfaction, marital satisfaction and satisfaction of sexual relations don’t have multiple relationships with dimensions the quality of women’ s married life.

This study explores the factors affecting on the tendency of women to cosmetic surgery. This study used the perspectives of Veblen, Goffman, Bourdieu, Homanz and Turner. The statistical population of the research includes women who are over 18 years old, living in the area of two and nine of Tehran city. In this research 187 women of Tehran have been selected by simple and clusters random sampling method. In this paper, the method of research is survey and technique of data collection is questionnaire. The results showed that the highest percentage of respondents to the cosmetic surgery tend to show low to high amount. There was a significant direct relation between the tendency to cosmetic surgery and social pressure, social status increase, women income and tends to opposite sex. However, there was not a significant relationship between age, education and marital status with tendency to cosmetic surgery.

The present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of marital counseling based on the model of human validation in reducing marital conflicts and increasing marital satisfaction of veterans' couples in Zanjan city. The research was carried out using a semi-experimental method. Out of 36 couples referring to the study, 30 couples with the highest score in marital conflict and the lowest marital satisfaction score were selected and randomly divided into two groups. The two groups were pre-tested by marital satisfaction and marital conflicts questionnaire. The experimental group couples were consulted in 8 sessions according to the human validation pattern and the control group was in the waiting state. Then, the questionnaires were taken from both groups. To analyze the data, multivariate covariance analysis was used. Findings showed that marital counseling based on human validation pattern significantly reduced marital conflicts among veteran couples and increased their marital satisfaction (p<0.001). Considering the effectiveness of marital counseling based on the human validation pattern, it is suggested that this model be emphasized on the self-esteem of couples in marital life in order to reduce marital conflicts and even increase marital satisfaction in counseling centers and psychologists.

This article reviews moral judgment of gender differences through the library style and analytical method. More than this, it thrives to find out the criterion of moral judgment in men and women. Since the judgment is done on the base of wisdom, the question is whether wisdom alone is sufficient to judge or not. Some results are obtained from the point of view of psychologists, philosophers, feminist’s ethics, and its implementation with a view of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli. The result shows that a criterion in judging men and women depends on their types of attitudes due to the lack of difference in perceptions of emotional and intellectual power. Although the issue of arbitration is in different ways, the judgment result can be the same. Therefore, we can claim that the moral judgment does not depend on gender. Although the type of performance is different, .each of the two sexes is able to solve the moral problem and moral judgment in same way.