Journal of Behavior in Clinical Psychology
Year:2008 | Volume:2 | Issue:6|Papers Count:8

The MMPI test is one of the five common tests which are mostly employed by psychologists and psychology counselors. In this study, the relationship between the scores of the subjects (38 women and 21 men) in MMPI scales and diagnosis based on clinical judgment on the different dimensions of the characteristics of the subjects such as the intensity of problems, motivational distress, complexity of problem, level of resistance, coping style, and problem solving all were investigated by using purposeful sampling method. The analysis of the findings indicated that elevation, depression, anxiety, and psychological weakness have a connection with motivational distress, complexity of problem, and elevation of malingering indexes. Also, there is a relationship between depression a long with psychological weakness and schizophrenia; a relationship between the level of resistance and elevation in scales of L, K, 16 and 1; also a relationship between coping style and 6, 4, and 9 elevation and also a relationship between coping style and elevation of social in troversion, psychological weakness and depression.

The Propose of this study is to investigate the neurological function of Iranian amateur boxers. The tastes were assigned in there groups of twenty. The first group included amateur boxers with at least four years of activity (who are exposed to violent shocks in the head), the second group with at least four years of activity (who are exposed to not very harsh shocks in the heed), and the third group were chosen from non- athlete individuals. The groups were homogeneous in weight, height, and education. In order to identify mental disorder the subjects were interviewed by a physician. Then Wiskansen, Bonardel, Gestalt, Kim Carad's pictured memory, Benton, and kesler's memory tests were administered. The results indicated that there is a significant difference between the two group's neurological qualities and their visual- structural abilities. In general, it can be noted that a four year period of boxing activity can have a significant effect on the boxers perception deficiency, on their spatial path finding ability, and may lead to a decrease in the boxers neurological functions.

The basic purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of problem solving skill training on the onger management of 12 to 15 years old boys. To do this, 60 boy student's aged between 12 to 15 were selected and their anger levels were measured by Izenk's questionnaire. Those subjects were interviewed and the results of the measurement were confirmed. The students in this study who were selected through a multi- staged clustral method all study in school of Tehran. They were randomly assigned in to two experimental and control groups. Firs, Izenk’s questionnaire were applied in the two groups to identify the anger level, and then the experimental groups were trained on a weekly basis within threehour sessions for a month. The results of covariance analysis dicated that there is a significant difference in the anger level of the two groups.

The main purpose of the present study is to investigate relationship between creativity and emotional intelligence and styles of opting with stress (the problem centered and emotion centered styles) among university students. The sample population of this study includes 360 students (180 males and 181 females) who were studying in seven different fields of study. They were selected by the random sampling method and answered the Bar- N emotional intelligence questionnaires and Blings- Mos's coping with stress style questionnaires. The findings of the study indicated that there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and application of the style of coping with stress. There was no significant relationship between creativity and the two styles of coping with stress (problem centered and emotion centered styles).

This study was conducted in order to compare the effect of gradual desensitization techniques, assertive teaching, and their combination on curing the social phobia disorder. For this purpose, 32 individual affected by the social phobia disorder ( aged between 18 to 32 both single and married ) were randomly selected from the students of Islamic Azad university, Payam Noor University, and Ferdosi university of Neyshaboor and they were assigned in four treatment and control groups. In order to gather data, self assessment questionnaires and clinical interview were employed and then the data were analyzed based on mono-variance and toki' s trace test. The findings indicated that the methods of curing gradual desensitization, assertive teaching and their effectiveness decreases afterwards. Also this combined method of treatment has proven to be more effective than the others.

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between happiness and psychological health. The sample population in this study includes all the female and male students of Azad university of Ashtian. To do so, 100 students (50 males and 50 females) were selected through the multistage random sampling and were tested by GHQ and Fordic's happiness questionnaires. After gathering information, the data was deductively and descriptively analyzed. The result of findings and analysis through multi variance regression and t-student which were calculated for the two groups indicated that there is a significant relationship between happiness and lack of depression (p<1%). Also there is relationship between physical function and happiness, and no relationship between social function and happiness. Also there is no significant relationship between the subyect's happiness in the male and female groups.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of teaching living skills on progress motivation, self steam, and social adoption of the student of Tehran Islamic university. For this purpose, in an experimental study and through a pre- test and post- test method 40 students were randomly selected and were assigned to two experimental and control groups. First, they answered to the questionnaires on progress motivation, self- steam, and social adoption. Then, living skills taught only to the experimental group and finally both groups were given a post-test. The findings indicated that teaching living skills is effective on improving the level of self- steam, progress motivation, and social adoption of the students.

Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory, developed by psychologist Howard Gardner (1983, 1999) suggests that there are at least nine ways that people have of perceiving and understanding the world. Gardner labels each of these ways a distinct “intelligence.” This theory calls for assessment methods that take into account the diversity of intelligences, as well as self assessment tools that help students understand their intelligences. With understanding of our multiple intelligences, teachers, school administrators, and parents can better understand individual differences (Christian, 1998; Larsen-Freeman, 2000; Armstrong, 1994; Thomson, 1993; Goleman, 1995; Mckenzie, 2006). Implementing MI requires changing pedagogy and assessment techniques. Developing Multiple Intelligences Curriculum takes more time, but it is more effective and rewarding (Hoeer, 2000).The main concern of this study is to investigate whether there is any relationship between Multiple Intelligence and their reading ability. The participants were 122 Iranian undergraduate EFL (English as a foreign Language) students were selected from Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch. They were asked to take part in a validated IELTS test (2002) and fill out McKenzie’s MI (2006) validated questionnaire, A” standardized multiple regression analysis” was run (Pallant, 2001).The finding showed that Kinesthetic and verbal intelligence make the greatest contribution toward predicting reading ability scores.