Journal of Woman Cultural Psychology
Year:2010 | Volume:1 | Issue:4|Papers Count:10

This article is grounded in a deep understanding of Nel Noddings’ “ethics of care” as an important contribution to moral philosophy and moral education. The caring approach is one of the contemporary approaches in philosophy of ethics that can be situated in emotivism theories. Caring theories could be started by definition of caring relations, carer and cared for. This theory describes caring encounters and caring relations and gives us some guidance on how to establish, maintain, and enhance such relations. Caring, demonstrates respect for the spacious range of human talents.

The scientific, economic, social and political prestige and significance gained by the women are considered as one of the most important components of any country’s development. The women educations as a significant social development constituent have been permanently evaluated and taken into concern in the strategic plan. Promoting the women educations is one of the Middle East various countries competition arena that had been explicated in the developing goals of the year 1400 horizon by Islamic Republic of Iran. The present article studied the women educations established position in the Middle East countries. Descriptive and analytic procedures were employed. By implementing multiple-stage sampling and defining the present ranking; the Middle East countries’ standings for the year 2025 was estimated based on the gender development indices and via time- series design analysis techniques;. The results revealed that Islamic Republic of Iran will be ranked to the thirteenth eminence among the whole twenty two Middle East countries on 2025.

Study of a country’s social, political, cultural and religious conditions isn’t discriminated from its literature. Poets have illustrated the wars as well as the historians did and re-narrated religious beliefs which have originated from the culture of the society in literary forms. Our literatures are plenteous of magnitude samples that represent the woman value and introduce the glorified schema of the woman on every here and there. The established article tried to recite the Iranian cultural attitude concerning the woman and her rights, presence and status in Iranian society culture via quoting numerous Iranian today poetic works.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality characteristics and social-physical anxiety with therapeutic daily dietary intake in female students of Ahvaz Islamic Azad University. The sample included 200 female students that were selected via stratified random sampling from the female students enrolled for 1388-89 academic year. The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), Social-Physical Anxiety Scale (SPAS) and Cognitive-behavior Dietary Scale (CBDS) were implemented as data sources. The research was a correlation study. Finding suggested that there was a significant correlation between personality characteristics and social-physical anxiety with cognitive- behavior dietary intake. The regression analysis of data also indicated the agreeableness and social-physical anxiety significantly predicted the therapeutic dietary intake.

Osteoarthritis is one of the most prevalent joint illnesses in old-aged people and often results inability. The illness is a combination of joint destruction and corrosion. Current study was carried out in order to investigate life style relationship with affliction to osteoarthritis. In this case-control study, 220 subjects were selected from referent patients to Tehran’s Medical Universities Hospitals by simple random sampling method and were divided into two 110 subjects of case (experimental) and control groups. Data including demographic information, job history and life style (nutrition patterns and manners, physical activities, smoking and alcohol behaviors) collected via implementing questionnaires and interviews with the patients. Chi-square (K-2) and Mann-Whitney U statistical tests were applied to analyze data. Age Mean in both groups was 60 years and 59.1% of the subjects were women. In case group, 40% had ages between 25 and 29 years and 86.55% of them never used hormones after menopause. 23.63% of the referents in case group, were housewife and 64.5% of them had frequent stairs climbing, also 63.6% had picked up heavy objects and 65.5% had the manner of sitting in the form of cross-legged. In terms of nutrition and feeding manners, no significant differences were observed in both case and control groups (P<0.005). In terms of physical activities, most of people in case group had heavy physical activities in the past and hadn’t have walking or physical exercises, 30% of the case group had smoking manners (p<0.001). The established research showed that inappropriate life style is so effective in affliction to osteoarthritis in old-aged people that could be prevented somehow by life style modification.

The goal of this project was investigating the relationship between insomnia, sleep quality, sleepiness and mental health disorder with educational performance in female adolescences of Ahwaz city. Subjects were 184 female adolescences that were selected through random cluster sampling. Questionnaire of Insomnia Intensity (ISI), Petersburg Sleep Quality, Sleepiness, SCL-25 and the average as an index of educational performance were used for collecting data. All the questionnaires have acceptable validity and reliability. The current research was a correlation type. Data analysis results by using Pearson and regression correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant relationship between insomnia, sleep quality, sleepiness, mental health and educational performance in female adolescences of Ahwaz city. Also among predicting variables, insomnia intensity variable, sleepiness and the mental health disorder were the best predicting variables for educational performance in female adolescences, respectively.

Menopause is the important factor in women’s health. Medical progresses indicated women must believe that menopause has not serious danger but some factors such as smoking can be increases premature menopause. In this period social life, feelings and function in women are affected by menopause. Hot flash is the prevalent sign in this period. Usage of ocp can reduce hot flash and other sings such as osteoporosis. This study is a cross-sectional descriptive one accomplished with 329 of the women at the 44-50th of the ages. The sample was selected randomly. The data were collected by a two part questionnaire. The first part included personal and special questions and the second part contained questions about efficacy of the ocp on menopause’s sings. After collecting data they were coded and uploaded to computer for analysis. The SPSS soft-ware was used. In this study 329 subjects were literate 24.9% and 95.5%.were married. Most of them 17.9% were menopausal in the 50th of their ages. 28.3% of them had used ocp and 68.7% had hot flash. There was not any significant relation between usage of ocp and hot flash. Daily taking shower was the only effective factor on the hot flash. Menopause has effected on physical exercise, on the other hand after menopause there was a severe reduction on physical exercise by women.

The Present article reviewed the UNESCO comparative analysis of E9 countries; the 9 most populated countries (included Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Mexico and Indonesia). Increasing national struggles of these countries on studies which its formal document presented by UNESCO's coordinator, have been proceeded, and the role of women as educator in family, school, society, and management are considered in development and promotion of education programs. Statistical information and data with conditional indexes, presented in these countries' reports, declared the priority of women education and set them as the center of national actions and activities, although women are confronted with challenges caused by poverty and unavailability to basic social services in some of these countries, expect Nigeria, basic development is observed in the field of women literacy and girls education in marginal and rural area.The explorations also indicated that parents educational class specially the mothers, have a determinative role in children education successfulness, especially in girls. In execution of public and continues education in E9 countries, women and girls were mobilized to apply their abilities, creativeness and skills in development educational program. Generally these countries accepted the fact that in spite of deterring attitude, women must be put in center of reformative programs in the society. These countries, in their initiative programs of women and girls literacy and education, have a collection of executive patterns for people of the world.