JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (NEW FINDINGS IN PSYCHOLOGY)
Year:2008 | Volume:2 | Issue:7|Papers Count:11

The purpose of the present research was to investigate the effect of music therapy (active, non-active) on positive symptoms of schizophrenia patients at shafa centre of dezful. Seventy- five (75) patients with schizophrenia were selected in this study in three groups which were devided into two experimental groups and one group as control group. The first experimental group (1) took part in active music therapy sessions consisting of singing, playing music and harmonic physical movements. The second experimental group (2) attended non-active music therapy, consisting of listening to their own ideal music. The controlling group were not exposed to any kind of music at all, The expermintal groups were studied five days a week for one month and each session took about one hour, All the patients in the experiment mere measured and evalnated both before experiment and after experiment related to the symptoms of disease both positively and negatively and thus positively and negatively symptoms of (PNS-Q) were measured carefully, Statistical analyses through variance analysis of monva variable revealed that both active music therapy and non-active music therapy cause the reduction of positive symptoms (P=0.0001, F=29.14) among patients with schizophrenia at Shafa centre of Dezful. Consequently, the hypotheses in the research were confimed and approved scientifically.

This research investigated the relationships between personal characteristics, self-concept, computer anxiety and the Internet addiction among the students of Ahvaz Islamic Azad University. Research sample included 300 male and female students’ selected based on convenient simple sampling. Data were collected through three questionnaires of Neo’s Personal Characteristics, Rodgers’ Self- concept and computer addiction. Moreover, the Young’s 20- item Computer anxiety questionnaire was used to evaluate the students’ computer addiction. This questionnaire was translated into Persian by Orang (2004). Research design was based on correlation study and data were analyzed through correlation coefficient and multi regression analyses which showed that there were significant relationships between personal characteristics and computer addiction as well as between computer anxiety and Internet addiction. However, there was not a significant relationship between self-concept and Internet addiction.

The main objective of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of group training based on transactional analysis affecting the aggressive behaviors of the girl students of grade one in high school in the city of Rasht. This experimental research was carried out on 40 individuals from those students who were rated “high” in aggression test (AGQ).this sample was selected through the phased random selection and it was divided in two equal groups (experiment and control group), randomly, subsequently, the group training program was represented to the experiment group. The method of transactional analysis based on the assembly of concepts within 8 ninety-minute sessions for twice a week was used. during this period, no interference was imposed on the control group. then after the end of training, the AGQ-test (post-test) was applied to both experiment and control groups, simultaneously and under the identical circumstances. the obtained information from the pre-test and post-test were analyzed using the statistical. T-test for the independent group and multivariable variance analysis of MANOVA. The additional obtained results suggested that there was a significant difference between the experiment and control groups (P=0.0001). In other words, the experimental interference (group training based on the transactional analysis has given rise to reduce the aggression and its components in experimental group.

The aim of this study was to compare the quality of life, social support and general health in persons with HIV/AIDS infection and normal persons in Ahvaz. Population of this research included 100 persons from patients with HIV/AIDS and 100 normal persons of Ahvaz that of using available sampling method. The study used of the questionnaire's 26 Quality of Life, Question 28 public health question and 21 Philips's support question that have validity and reliability for analysis. Static analytic variance methods were used with variant (MANOVA) in meaningful surface p<0/0001. The result sowed patients with HIV/AIDS in compare with normal persons have different quality of life social support and general health.

The purpose of this research was to compare body image, body mass index, General health and self-concept in applicants of cosmetic surgery, and people who have already done cosmetic surgery and ordinary people of Behbahan city. The sample included 300 people from applicant groups under surgery and ordinary groups (each group included 100people), and first and second groups selected was according to availability of sampling. And ordinary people selected by using random clustering.Applied tools in this research were Body image Questionaire (BICI), Body mass index informational list (BMI), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and Rajerz self- concept Questionnaire. Analysis of data by MANOVA multi-parameter variance analytic method, Toki follow-up test and results in significance level of p£0/05 showed that there is significant difference between applicants of cosmetic surgery, people who have already passed/ done surgery and ordinary people, in terms of body image, body mass index and general health.

The present study was conducted to predict the academic achievements of Ahvaz University students based on their IQ, educational experiences and demographic variables. The sample population was taken from Ahvaz universities. The sample group of the study consisted of 928 students selected from 5 universities chosen from the above mentioned population by random selection method, multi stage sampling. The instruments used to collect data consisted of a questionnaire interrogating the participants about their demographic variables which was developed and standardized by the researcher and Raven IQ test. The result of stepwise multivariate regression indicated that high school grade point average and the students' university entrance examination rank variables emerged as the most significant direct predictors for academic average score, respectively. However, it was concluded that no meaningful relation could be found among gender, being native or non-native, marital status, living in dormitory or not, occupation status, level of salary and IQ with students' academic grade point average.

This research aimed at studying the effect of problem solving skill group training on wives of satellite workers in an induatraial company in Ahvaz. The participants of this study included 30 wives of satellite workers who were selected using simple random sampling. The instrument in this study were Enriching and Nurturing Relationship Issus Communication Happiness (ENRICH). General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The research design was pretest - posttest with control group. After randomly choosing the experimental and control group, the intervention (problem solving skill) was being done on the experimental group during 7 sessions, each session 90 minutes. When the training sessions finished, the post test was taken from all subjects of the two groups. For analyzing data, the descriptive statistic and also inferential methods such as MANOVA were used. The results showed that problem solving skill group training increased general health and marital satisfaction of experimental group in compare with control group.

In this study, the relation between meta- cognitive, self handicapping in male students of Ahwaz high school are considered.325 male students were selected in the multi stage cluster form. In this study, meta cognitive questionarie, self efficacy questionarie (GSE) parenting styles questionaries of winter Bottom and set of adjusted learning pattern scales (PAIS) were used. Descriptive statististics ways, correlation coefficient of Pearson and multivariate regression, were used for data analysis. the result of this study showed that its observed meaning ful negative relation between meta cognitive strategies and self handicapping of students, there self handicapping decreased, its observed meaningful negative relation between self efficacy and academic self- handicapping. there is meaningful positive relation between parenting styles in three level (independence learning, mastery learning and care learning) with academic self-handicadicaping, The variables of meta-cognition strategies and age of using independence learning parenting styles are anticipant for students’ academic self-handicapping.