JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (NEW FINDINGS IN PSYCHOLOGY)
Year:2009 | Volume:3 | Issue:9|Papers Count:12

This research investigated how resiliency, positive and negative effects relate to self efficacy and job satisfactions. In particular how many dimensions are necessary to understand the association between the two sets of variables? The sample embraced 222 of Ahvaz Municipal Administration Employees who were selected randomly via simple sampling procedure based on Morgan table. Conner and Davidson Resiliency Scale (CD-RISC), Positive and Negative Effect Scales, General Self Efficacy Scale and Job Description Index (JDI) were administrated as data sources. Tests of dimensionality for the canonical correlation analysis indicated that just one of the three canonical dimensions was statistically significant at the0.05 level. Dimension 1 had a canonical correlation of 0.70 between the sets of variables, while for dimension 2 and 3 the canonical correlation were much lower at 0.16 and 0.10 respectively. The results also revealed that; according to the standardized canonical coefficients for the first dimensions across both sets of variables; for the variables resiliency, positive and negative effects, the first canonical dimension is most strongly influenced by resiliency (-0.79), then negative effects (0.28) and positive effects (-0.12) with less influential. For the self efficacy and job satisfactions variables, the first dimension was comprised of self efficacy (-0.94) promotion satisfaction (-0.17) and career satisfaction (-0.12). Additionally, the analysis suggested that, although the financial component was a factor in job satisfaction, it was not as important as the other satisfaction-related variables. For the second and third dimensions dominating variables were not identified due to lack of significance.

This research invwstigated the relationship of social anxiety, hope and social support with subjective well-being in complementary education students of khoozestan research and science center The sample of this research contained 340 individuals that they were selected based on stratified random sampling from all male and female students of khoozestan research and science center. Social anxiety, hope of miller and social support of Phillips and life satisfaction (SWLS) inventories were used for data collecting. Present research was correlation type and the results of data analysis were calculated by using person correlation factor and multivariable regression at meaningful level (P<0.001). Results showed that there was meaning ful negative relationship between social anxiety and subjective well-being but there was meaning ful positive relationship between hope and subjective well-being and also between social support and subjective well-being. Also, findings showed that there was meaning fulmultiple relationship between social anxiety, hope and social support with subjective well-being. Regression analysed showed that hope, social support are predict the subjective well-being, but social anxiety Wasn't play a role in subjective Well-being.

The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of reality therapy on life expectancy and anxiety of the martyrs' wives of Ahvaz city. The sample consisted of 30 subjects of the women, were chosen by simple random samplying method, 15 subjects of the sample as the experimental group and the other 15 subjects were the control group. The research instruments were Miller life expectancy and Beck anxiety questionnaires. The research design was pretest-posttest conducted through experimental intervention (reality therapy) being down on the experimental group during sessions, each session 90 minutes,1 session per week. When reality therapy plan was finished completely, the posttest was taken from each group. For analyzing the data, the descriptive statistics and also inferential statistical method such as covariation analyzing (ANCOVA) were used.The results showed reality therapy has caused the increase of life expectancy and the decrease of anxiety of experimental group in comparison with the control group, it had significant effect on increasing life expectancy and decreasing anxiety (P<0.0001).

This research aimed at comparing perfectionism, delay and depression among male and female high school teachers in Ahvaz. Sample of research included 200 teachers (100 males and 100 females) who were selected through simple random sampling method in 2009. the instruments included Ahvaz Perfectionism Scale (APS), Schovarzer's Delay Scale and Beck's Depression Scale.This research was conducted through Cause and Effect model. Results showed that there was significant difference between males and females concerned with perfectionism and depression while there was not significant difference between them at the delay variable (p<0.05).

The present research has been conducted to compare the critical thinking skills and identity styles of technical-engineering students with humanities students of IAU Dezful branch. The research population includes 5280 undergraduate students of technical-engineering and humanities majors who have passed at least 5 educational semesters. The investigated sample size was 357 individuals (consisting of 238 technical-engineering students and 119 humanities students) who have been selected randomly through several steps. In order to collect the data two questionnaires have been used: California critical thinking skills, form (B) and identity styles (ISI-6G). For statistical analysis of data the descriptive statistics (the mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (t test, ANOVA, and MANOVA) have been used. The results of data analysis of this research show that there is no significant difference between the critical thinking skills of technical-engineering and humanities majors. But the identity styles of two investigated groups were different and the identity preferences of technical-engineering students were of normative style.

Objectives of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness of social skills training through social stories to reduce autistic behaviors and increase social development in children with autism disorder. This quasi- experimental study, design test- retest with control group Using a acceptable sampling method, a sample consisting of 16 children with autism disorder were randomly 8 patients in experimental group and 8 patients were in control group. Experimental group was treated for 4 months, 56 sessions of social skills training under the style of social stories. Post test data collect after the 3 weeks. Pre and post- test data were investigated using a covariance analysis test. Results of the study showed that social skills training through social stories led to the reduction of autistic behaviors and decrease social development in the subjects (p<0.05).

The main purpose of this research was to find the relationship between emotional intelligence and language learning strategy use with language proficiency levels of Ahvaz Azad university students. The sample population included 125 students majoring in English as a foreign language. The method of research was correlation. To find the relationship between emotional intelligence and language learning strategy use the multivariate regression was used. The result showed that there was a negative relationship between emotional intelligence and proficiency level. In addition, it was revealed that there was a positive relationship between language learning strategy use and language proficiency level of students. Furthermore, there was no significant difference between male and female groups in the use of language learning strategies and their level of proficiency. All subjects with high and low level of proficiency used the metacognitive and affective strategies more than the others and they used social strategy less than all. All groups used the strategies as follow: metacognitive, affective, cognitive, compensation, memory and social strategies respectively.

The present research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Responsibility Training by Glassers method on increasing boys self-esteem of the high school students in Baghmalek. The related population include all the boys students at the high school in Baghmalek and 30 participants of this population were selected randomly in a multi-stage metods and they were divided in to 2 experimental and control groups. The instruments used in the peresnt study included: the Cooper smith self-esteem and Demographic information questionnaires. The pre-test and pos-test control group design was used. After randomly selection of the experimental and control groups, a pre-test was administered to both groups. Then experimental interference was administered to experimental group in 10 sessions. And at the end of the treatment, a post-test was conducted to both groups. In this study,in addition to descriptive statistics, analysis of variance (ANCOVA) and MANCOVA were utilized. The concluded results conferment the most research bypotheses and revealed that responsibility training in Glasser metod increases Self-esteem in experiment group.