Journal of Woman Cultural Psychology
Year:2011 | Volume:2 | Issue:7|Papers Count:11

This study tried to investigate the relationship between attachment style, difficulties in emotion regulation and marital satisfaction among teachers in Kish Island. The sample included 100 female teachers whom were selected through simple random sampling method. Measures were Simpson’s Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ), Gratz and Romer's Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Enrich' Marital Satisfaction Scale. Results suggested positive significant relationship between secure attachment style and marital satisfaction, negative relationship between insecure attachment styles (ambivalent & avoidant) and marital satisfaction and negative relationship between difficulty in emotion regulation and marital satisfaction. The findings revealed as well a multiple relationship between attachment style and difficulty in emotion regulation with marital satisfaction. Regression analysis also proved that ambivalent attachment style as being the best way to predict marital satisfaction.

After the Constitutional Revolution Period (Mashrouteh) with regard to the progress in developed countries and the Iranian society, the women also entered the realm of overt social relations and became aware of their social and humanitarian values and portrayed their social identity by their writings. To emancipate Iranian women and achieving equality of women's and men's rights, they stressed on the presence of women on different social and cultural circumstances. The poetess expressed their ideas by means of poem regarding women status in Iranian society. Among the entire contemporary Iranian poetess, Jaleh Ghaemmaghami, Parvin Etesami and Simin Behbahani attained a deeper view with respect to woman’s position and had attended to the agenda. Therefore we purposed to investigate the dimensions of the subject by emphasizing on the above mentioned three poetesses’ poetic works.

the Ancient Persians always esteemed women as being equal to men in all aspects of life. Etymologically, the word “woman” in Persian language originated from the word (zan), which means “giving birth”. The word had different forms in various languages: (zan) and (narig) in Pahlavi, (wa/ǝd) in Soghdi, (wadu) or (wad) in Old Persian, (Vantav) in Avestan, and (Vadhu) in Sanskrit. The importance and the high status attributed to women were manifested in titles given to women as well as in their determination to defend their reputation, family, and land. Such a feature was also portrayed in ancient mythological goddesses such as Anahita, Spadnarmaz, Dena, Chista, and many others. Further, women’s love, affection, and commitment, in one perspective, and evil deviations, in another, were reflected in characteristics of female demons (daeva) like Jahi, Bushyasta, and others. However, all these myths refer to the good-evil duality in women’s nature. Therefore, as Anahita - female divinity of water, fertility, and kingship - possesses good attributes and pursues positive goals, evil attributes, such as vindictiveness and spitefulness are depicted in ada - another goddess.

Runaway from home is a great problem affecting all societies. It is not a crime and occurs in all societies and at all times. Runaway from home is a socio-familial personal problem threatening the health of the family and society. In any case; researches showed that material and cultural poverty, unemployed parents, lack of insight and ignorance of proper fostering on the part of parents on one hand, and the personality traits of the runaway girls who happen to be more extroverted, more adventuresome and more monotony-repulsive than ordinary girls, on the other hand, put them to trouble. This study is a survey of personality dimensions and family structure of runaway girls and the separation from or lack of family consequences was studied and guidelines to prevent such a phenomenon were suggested.

The current research was intended to examine the relationship of self-efficacy, social desirability and social anxiety in Abadan Islamic Azad University female students. The sample included 100female student, who were selected randomly via multi-stage sampling method. For collecting data three scales (questionnaires) were used: General Self-Efficacy Scale(GSE), Marlowe - Crowne Social Desirability Scale and Social Anxiety Scale ( SAD, FNE).The analysis of data based on the Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression statistical methods revealed that social anxiety significantly correlated to self-efficacy and social desirability. The results also indicated that the self-efficacy rather than social desirability was a significant predictor for social anxiety( the criterion variable).

The Purpose of this research was to compare the “couples’ financial relations” in Iran, France and Sweden law systems specially the term “alimony”. One of the problems to be referred as sex discrimination between the men and women is the mutual rights of the couples. Wife and husband through the marriage contract endured different bilateral responsibilities toward each other. Providing the family revenue in Iran is the unilateral man commitment and woman has no responsibility in this field, while in France and Sweden it is a bilateral commitment and woman has the same responsibility to provide the family expenditures as well. Some believe that most of the religious jurisprudence laws have been discriminated between man and woman and it would be necessary for Iran to join the international convention of the woman rights which seeks the equality of man and woman in all aspects. To view the different angles of the discussion, the man and woman relationships were considered on financial and non-financial aspects. The marriage was not suppose to be concerned about the loss and profit at the earlier moments but on the serious first crisis the financial counterclaim to be the most vital conflicting dispute. And if it was not managed properly it would lead to critical legal suit. In Iran laws, the principle of financial independence of the mates was the basis of couples’ financial relations and both the wife and husband are completely independent in acquiring their properties. But in the western countries laws such as France and Sweden in the properties partnership systems man is the boss of the partnership and manage the joint mates properties and in the properties absolute isolation system according to the legal assumption, he could manipulate his wife property unless the woman rejects it obviously. In this paper, the legal different systems of the above mentioned countries were discussed.

In this paper after defining Hijab literaral meaning it was investigated from The Old and New Testaments (Judaism and Christianity), Zorasthorian and Islam view points and among various nations such as Arabs, Ancient Iranians…. The Hijab aim in Islam was mentioned as well. Finally the essential difference of Islamic Hijab compare to veil in other religions was highlighted.

Prominence has always been given to family as one of the major institution in socialization, values and attitudes transference from the society to its new young generation. Since in the Islamic text the woman is to take heed as mother and wife so in this study we investigate the mother’s role in disposition of high risk adolescents’ behaviors. Having basic skills by the parents could decrease the stress inside their family and lead to reasonable and normative confrontation with children's problems, specially the adolescents. The young people are too vulnerable to be at risk and great dangers may impend over their present and future health more than others. Parents’ emotional neglect, particularly the mothers’ can cause that the adolescents consider any least lapse or omission of the parents as unkindness toward themselves. Therefore they may suffer from lack of sense and self confidence. These conditions make them to withdraw from any rationality and find refuge in their fancy. Such a feeling leads to anxious insecurity and finlly to high risk behaviors by the adolescents.