Journal of Behavior in Clinical Psychology
Year:2011 | Volume:5 | Issue:20|Papers Count:14

The research purpose is to assess the effectiveness of emotion regulation in the mental health of epileptic girls aged 14-18 years in Isfahan. Therefore, 30 patients diagnosed with epilepsy were enlisted for the study and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent 12 sessions of emotion-regulation interventions. Findings indicate that emotion regulation was effective in boosting the mental health of epileptic girls in pretest, posttest and follow-up. Moreover, mean scores of somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, aggression, neuroticism in the posttest was significantly lower in the experimental group compared to the control group.

The research purpose is to draw a comparison of attachment styles in married male individuals with and without extra marital involvement in Shiraz City. Hence, 80 individuals (40 males with extra marital involvement and 40 males without extra marital involvement) were selected through snowball sampling and tested with regard to attachment styles. Results indicated that these two groups didn’t differ concerning secure and avoidant attachment styles.

The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between self-efficacy and depression, anxiety and stress amongst junior high school students of Tehran City; thus, 376 individuals (188 females and 188 males) were selected using random stage sampling and were tested with regard to self-efficacy, depression, anxiety and stress. The acquired results revealed that self-efficacy could predict 27% of the total scores of variance, 20% of the depression variance, 15% of the anxiety variance and 19% of the stress variance.

The research purpose is to carry out a conceptual review of trauma and to differentiate it from similar concepts, and its traumatic effects with regard to bio psychosocial aspects. Post-traumatic stress disorder along with its psychological theories and etiology has proved to be the focus of attention and debate among the equivalent concepts in the literature of trauma. Here, the methodological problems regarding the studies done in the realm of PTSD have been brought to the light.

The research purpose is to find out the relationship between knowledge of nonverbal communication and social competence amongst 384 students of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman who were selected using stratified-random sampling and tested with regard to knowledge of nonverbal communications and social competence. The results revealed that knowledge of nonverbal communications is significantly, positively correlated to social competence, furthermore, no significant difference was observed between the males’ and females’ nonverbal communications and social competence.

The research purpose was to investigate the role of fear of pain in selective attention of patients with dental pain. Hence, a pictorial version of dot-probe was examined in a sample group of 120 subjects with dental complains. The results of this research revealed that subjects with high fear of pain as compared to subjects with low fear of pain in dot-probe attended away from painful stimuli, selectively (P<0.05). Overall it is concluded that, fear of pain plays an important role in attentive bias towards painful stimuli.  

The present study aimed to compare the pharmacotherapy and eye movement desensitization reprocessing in decreasing the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder; therefore, 30 patients diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder were selected and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups and tested with regard to the symptoms and severity of obsession and compulsion. While the control group was exclusively treated with drug therapy, the experimental group was trained to use eye movement desensitization reprocessing in addition to pharmacotherapy whilst engaged in compulsive hoarding. Results indicated that eye movement desensitization reprocessing is effective in decreasing the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the experimental group compared to the control group. It was also concluded that severity showed further decrease compared to the symptoms.

The research purpose is to investigate the relationship between responsibility, risk-taking, sensation seeking and type D personality amongst the undergraduates in Masjed Soleiman Universtiy. The sample comprised 200 subjects who were selected using stratified random sampling and were tested with regard to responsibility, risk taking and sensation seeking. Results indicated that there was a negative significant correlation between responsibility and type D personality and a positive significant correlation between risk-taking and type D personality, sensation seeking and type D personality; furthermore, The results of regression analysis showed that responsibility is the sole variable which has the predictive power of type D personality.