Journal of Behavior in Clinical Psychology
Year:2009 | Volume:3 | Issue:11|Papers Count:8

Traumatic events are common but pathologic responses are relatively rare. Although, a number of literatures and philosophies throughout human history have conveyed the idea that there is a personal gain to be found in suffering, positive changes in the aftermath of trauma or posttraumatic growth (PTG) have recently elicited heightened attention by trauma researchers. At the same time, some difficulties encountered in clearly defining the processes associated with subjective feeling of growth following recovery, raise doubts concerning the real or illusory nature of PTG and its adaptive value. To clarify this ambiguity, in this paper, we review three main theoretical perspectives: functional-descriptive model, meta-theoretical person-centered perspective and bio-psycho-social-evolutionary view, then, we go on to discuss the debate of the real or illusory nature of PTG and to address critical aspects toward the related theories and researches.

The research purpose was to look into the relationship between the aspects of counterfactual thinking and the quality of life among the university students. Our sample comprised 183 students drawn from Isfahan University who were selected through cluster random sampling. They underwent the test by receiving and responding to "The World Health Organization Quality Of Life Questionnaires" abbreviated (WHOQOL) and also "Counterfactual Thinking for Negative Events Scale (CTNES)". The results indicated that upward self-referential thinking style is significantly positively correlated with physical health, additionally downward nonreferential thinking style was shown to correlate highly and negatively to physical, mental and environmental health, furthermore upward other-referential thinking style and upward nonreferential thinking style were shown to be significantly, negatively correlated to mental, physical and environmental health. The analysis of the obtained results which were statically confirmed by the regression analysis revealed the predictive power of upward self-referential thinking style in predicting the physical health, mental health, environmental health and social relations and the predictive power of downward nonreferential thinking style in predicting the environmental health.

The study evaluated the effectiveness of communication skills group training on affective response and couples' romantic relational association. The assigned experimental and control groups consisted of the couples referring to the "Welfare Organization of Ahvaz", out of which 30 couples were selected through the accessibility sampling. The results revealed that the enhancement of couples' romantic relational association and affective response was in large measure due to communication skills training.

Here, we examined the psychological features of infertile individuals accordingly, 240 people (60 infertile females, 60 infertile males, 60 fertile females, 60 fertile males) who had been matched by employing SCL-90-R were compared. As results revealed, a significant between-group difference was found in infertile females with regard to physical disorders, compulsion, obsession, anxiety, sensitivity towards interpersonal communication, psychosis, paranoid ideation, aggression and phobia, furthermore, infertile males scored higher on anxiety and physical disorders in comparison with fertile males.

The main purpose of conducting the present research was to predict the family functioning based on couples' personality traits. The sample was drawn from the teachers, staffs and their spouses employed in GM and private secondary and high schools of Tehran in the school year ran from 1387 to 1388 .The sample comprised 382 individuals who were sampled by multi-stage random sampling and underwent the "FAD and NEO-FFI Tests". Results which were statically confirmed by linear regression analysis and path analysis indicated that extroversive characteristics and couples' conciliation were positively, significantly correlated with the level of family functioning and negatively, significantly correlated with neuroticism, moreover, the results obtained from path analysis support the predictive power of conciliation, neuroticism and extroversion in predicting the family functioning level.

The present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of "Satir family therapy" on the adjustment of marital conflict management styles among newlyweds. The sample population was drawn from the couples referred to the governmental counseling centers of Shiraz in 1387 and comprised 16 couples who had been selected through multistage random sampling and underwent the treatment. The results which were supported by covariance analysis revealed that applying Satir family therapy can decrease emotional, avoiding and hostile conflict styles and increase validating conflict management style.

The research purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of sexual coolant training in promoting sexual health. The research method involved semi-experimental design with pre test and post test. The sample including 45 individuals (30 females and 15 males) was drawn from a larger sample size consisted of the married students of Azad University (Garmsar branch) in the academic year ran from 1386 to 1387.Findings support a significant statistical difference in subjects' scores in pre test and post test, which is closely tied to the effective intervention of sexual coolant training in promoting sexual health.

The present study examined the association among the attachment styles and conflict resolution patterns with women's' marital satisfaction resident in Tehran in a sample of 250 married women who had been selected through the accessibility sampling and filled in "Attachment Styles, Marital Satisfaction and Conflict Resolution Patterns Questionnaires". Results indicated that secure and occupational attachment styles enable us to predict marital satisfaction, moreover, secure attachment style proved to be positively and occupational style showed to be negatively correlated with marital satisfaction, additionally, wife's ignorance, husbands' misbehavior and discontinuing can be regarded as predictors of marital satisfaction with regard to conflict resolution patterns. Results also indicated that husbands' verbal conflict resolution strategy was significantly correlated with marital satisfaction. By contrast, ignorance strategies, husbands' misbehavior and discontinuing demonstrated a negative relationship with marital satisfaction.