JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (NEW FINDINGS IN PSYCHOLOGY)
Year:2013 | Volume:8 | Issue:27|Papers Count:13

This study was aimed to comparing the effect of three preventive procedures cognitive – behavioral social, lecture and short message system (SMS) on change attitude and adventure seeking and boredom susceptibility into substance abuse among high school students. In an experimental method, 192 students were selected through of the 8 high schools and were selected randomly and assigned into the 3 experimental and control groups (24 per a group), and were assessed in pretest, posttest and follow up by the attitude into drug abuse (Ghorbani, 2001) and sensation seeking (Zukerrnna, 1969) (adventure seeking and boredom susceptibility dimesions) inventories. first Experimental group received 10 sessions of group cognitive-behavioral social training 120 minutes each, second experimental group trained by lecture for 10 sessions and third experimental group received short message system for 2.5 months, while no intervention was made on control group. The results of the analysis of Manco va revealed that preventive procedures have a significant effect on change at-titude into drug abuse, adventure seeking and boredom susceptibility (p<0.01). The post hoc test also revealed that cognitive-behavioral social procedure was more effective than other preventive procedures still in force even after I year (p<0.01). Also, lecture and SMS procedures had lost there effect on adventure seeking and boredom during one year follow-up (p>0.01). It was Concusioned that preventive procedures were still in place and that the stability on attitude, but of the only cognitive-behavioral social procedures was stability on adventure seeking and boredom susceptibility.

This research was to compare Critical thinking, Social intelligence and resiliency in female and male students of Ahwaz. The samole subsmed 380 (170 male) and (210 female) who were selected through classified accidental sampling. Instrwnents were Critical thinking Questionnaire (CCTST), Social intelligence Questionnaire (TSIS), resiliency Questionnaire (CD-RISC). Research design was based on causal- comparative method and multiple factor variance analysis (MANOVA) at p<0.05. Findings showed a significant difference between female and male students from Critical thinking but there was not a significant difference between female and male students from Social intelligence and resiliency.

The current research was to study the relationship between depression and sterss with quality of life in Alzheimer s disease inAhvaz. The research samples consisted of 40 subjects with Alzheimer disease that selected based on available sample. To collects data, Quality of Life in Alzheimer Disease scale (QOL- AD), Depression Bake, Sterss Holmz- rahe were Implemented. The results showed that Negative relation between depression and quality of life in Alzheimer Disease, there was not a negative relation between sterss and quality of life in Alzheimer disease. The results of regression analysis showed that the predicting variable was only depression as a pridictable variable in determining the quality of Life.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Organizational health, Job engagement and Innovative organizational climate with psycological empoverment in employees of Ahvaz. The sample of research included 400 subjects who were selected through stratified random sampling procedure based on Morgan table. For the measurement of the variable, Tamiminejad organizational health scale, Salanova and Schaufeli job engagement questionnaire, Cigel and Kaumer innovative organizational climate questionnaire and Spreitzer psycological empoverment questionnaire were used. The current research was correlation, and the data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multi-variant regression. The results at the p<O.OOOI level it showed that there were a meaningful relationship between organizational health, job engagement and innovative organizational climate, with psychological empoverment. Also regression showed job engagement and organizational health were predictive variables concerned with psychological empoverment.

The purpose of the present research was to compare the thought-action fusion and attribution style in patients with obsessive-compulsive and depression disorders. A great-comparison Research Methodology was used. The research statistical community recieved all people of affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression that is referring to psychiatry professional clinic ofFatemi in the second half of 1390 year and also within proficiency psycologists and psychiatrists clinics of Ardabil city and by way of diagnostic specialists of obsessive-compulsive disorder and or depression. The study sample of 100 persons (50 patient affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder and 50 patient affected by depression) was selected using convenience sampling procedure. To collect research data, there used from tools of research such as interviewing by way of DSM-N-TR distinction proof and refreshed scale of thought-action fusion and attribution style questionnaire. Data were analyzed with multivariate analysis of variance (MANaWA). The findings showed moral thought-action fusion in depression group and likelihood thought-action fusion in the obsessive-compulsive disorde r group was more. Attribution styles for negative events were internal, stable and global in obsessive-compulsive disorder group and in depression group. The attribution style for positive events was stable and global within intemal in obsessive-compulsive disorder group but it was unstable and specific within extemal in depression group. Results showed the importance role of thought-action fusion and attribution style within forming and inverting of obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression.

The purpose of this study was to investigation of relationships between Work family conflict and family-work conflict with job engagement and marital satisfaction in male and female employees of Islamic Azad university of Ahwaz. The sample consisted of 200 employees (113 male and 87 female), selected by random sampling method. The scales used for this study including: Work-family conflict (WFC) and family work conflict (FWC) scales, Job engagement scale, marital satisfaction (Enrich) and demographic characteristics scale. Data were analyezed using descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation), and pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression statistical methods.The results of the research indicated that there was a significant negative correlation between work family conflict and job engagement in all sample that this relationship was not significant for male and was significant for female.There was negative significant correlation between family work conflict with job engagement in all sample and both of male and female. Relationship between work family conflict and marital satisfaction showed not significant. Relationship between family-work conflict with marital satisfaction showed negative significant in all sample and both of male and female.

The present research was to compare the critical thinking, hardiness, achievement motivation and creativity of the male and female students of Islarnic Azad University of Andirneshk. The investigated sample size was 354 individuals (188 girls&166 boys) who had been selected randomly through several steps. In order to collect the data, four questionnaires were used: California criti-cal thinking skills, form (B), questionnaire of hardiness, questionnaire of Hermanz Achievement motivation (AMQ) and questionnaire of Abedi creativity. This research was conducted through cause and effect model. For statistical analysis of data multivariable variance (MANOVA) were used. The results of data analysis of this research showed that there was a significant difference between the critical thinking skills, hardiness (p<0.01) and creativity (p<0.05) of male and female students, but there was hardiness a significant difference between male and female students concerning achieve-ment motivation (p<0.05).

This study was designing and testing a model of some antecedents and outcomes of authentic lead-ership. In this model personality traits (conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism), ethical context and leader-member exchange were considered as precedents of authentic leadership and affective commitment, organizational virtuousness and psychological capital were considered as outcomes of authentic leadership. The participants of the study were 209 employees (male 192&female 17) of Bidboland gas refinery that were selected by random sampling method. The instru-ments which used in this study were personality traits (NEO-FFI), Ethica Context, Leader-Member Exchange, Authentic Leadership, Affective Commitment, Organizational Vrrtuousness and Psychological Capital scales were used. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), using SPSS-19 and AMOS-19 software packages. The indirect effects were tested using the Bootstrap procedure. Findings indicated that the proposed model partly fit the data. Better fit and more meaningful results obtained by omitting 2 nonsiginificant paths and using AMOS modification indices. All indirect effects were significant.