Journal of Woman Cultural Psychology
Year:2010 | Volume:2 | Issue:2|Papers Count:11

The research was proceeded to investigate how resiliency, positive and negative affects associate to self efficacy. The sample embraced 74 women of Ahwaz Municipal Administration employees whom were selected randomly via simple sampling procedure; based on Morgan table. Conner& Davidson Resiliency Scale (CD-RISC), Positive and Negative Affect Scales and General Self Efficacy Scale were administrated as data sources. The research was designed to be a correlation study. Multiple regression analysis as the main statistic implemented procedure revealed that there were statistically significant multiple correlation (MR=0.80, p≤0.05) between resiliency, positive and negative affects from one hand and self efficacy to the other hand. The results also indicated that the most portions (totally %63) of dependent variable variance significantly would be predicted by the triple independent variables while resiliency played the dominant role.

The emergence of Human mind longitudinal flows to promote the social structure and transcend the morality since very long ago, is called “culture”. By practicing special behaviors which led to order, any individual as a community member obtain the values, faith and beliefs of the society. The individual behaviors and practices that have descended via generations, gradually refurbished by the society according to the norms, become dominant as a culture. Among some of these values the women and their status and our ancestors’ attitude are so important to be considered for studying and cultural recognition. That the women were well esteemed and highly respected in the history of our homeland culture. Such respect and esteem could be observed in the ancient texts and stories that manifested the ancestors’ attitude and culture. The author in this paper presented subjects on the very beginning of the Human creation and inquired the woman as a being creation epitome either in all good or evil symbols on the ancient eras.

The purpose of present study was investigating the relationship between forgiveness and perfectionism with marital satisfaction in wives of injured veterans in Ahvaz city. Participants were 300 wives of injured veterans which selected through cluster random sampling in 1389. Family Forgiveness Questionnaire, Ahvaz Perfectionism Scale and Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire were used for collecting data. This study was a correlation research and results indicated that there were significant positive correlation between forgiveness and marital satisfaction (r=0.523). Also there was negative correlation between perfectionism and marital satisfaction (r=-0.278). Finding suggested that there were multicorrelations between variables and forgiveness was the most significant predictive variable for marital satisfaction. The significant level in this study was p<0.05.

This paper studied effective factors in gender identity and individual differences between men and women. Mythological, psychological and social approaches were reviewed. Mythological approaches were man-centered. Psycho- analitical theory emphasises on psycho-sexual causes. Evolutionary psychology supported the genetical origin of social roles for masculinity and fiminity in the specices. Social learning theory believed that observational learning, imitiation and reinforcement are the main factors in gender identity. Cognitive approaches purposed that the information processing for gender role- schemas make self- concepts of gender identity. Feministic theories emphasises on social and cultural forces in passivity of women versus men. Androgyny model pointed that both men and women can accept other roles and function similarilly. Islamic approache believed men and women had created equally and so, they have equal rights in society. This review suggested that instead of concentrating on differences between men and women, the best way is to find the common points for advantaging total abilities of both sexes to develop human lifes.

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship of social anxiety and social support with subjective well-being in extended education female students of khoozestan Research and Sciences Center. The sample of this research consisted of 207 individuals that were selected based on stratified random sampling from all fmale students of khoozestan Researchs and Sciences Center. Social Anxiety and Social Support of Phillips and life Satisfaction (SWLS) inventories were used for data collecting. The present research was a correlation type and the results of data analysis by using Pearson correlation and multivariable regression at significant level (P<0.001) showed that there was significant negative relationship between social anxiety and subjective well-being and positive relationship between social support and subjective well-being. Findings also indicated that there were multiple relationships between social anxiety and social support with subjective well-being. Regression analysis revealed that social support was the best predictor of the subjective well-being.

The Women are half portion of the population. They are the creators and the breeders of the future generations. They are considered as potential human resources for scientific, social and cultural development as well. Therefore, based on their esteem in Islamic beliefs and evaluating of their present situations a paradigm should be drawn to provide full development of their talents. By decrementing the differences between practical efficiency of women and men, many of the mental, cultural, social and economic problems would be solved so all the social and family members could benefit such phenomena. One of the possible approaches to meet such an objective is to keep the women well veiled in the society. The presence and the participating of the women and men in the society without any sexual erection and flaw would consolidate the society. In general the virtue of women and men in the educational and professional environments would set up the sanity, progress and transcendence of the community.By noting facts and evidences, this paper intended to logically analyze the prevalence of the veil and presented some methods to promote the society and mental circumstances and finally suggested few confronting approaches to misveiling.

This research studied the relationship between spouse-specific dependencies with mental health in Ahvaz female teachers. The sample consisted of 135 women who were selected randomly by cluster sampling method from Ahvaz city teachers. In this research, different instruments were used to collect deta, such as Spouse-Specifcic Dependency (SSDW) and Symptom Check List-25 (SCL-25). To analyze the data, Pearson correlation were used. Results indicated that there was a significut relation between spouse-specific dependency with mental health in Ahvaz teachers. The level of significancy in this study was p<0.05.

The aim of present research was to examine the relationship of love components (intimacy, passion, commitment) with marital satisfaction in Ahwaz Islamic Azad University married students. The sample subsumed 120 married senior students that were selected by simple random sampling procedure among I. A. U. students enrolled for 2007-8 academic year. Sternberg's Love Inventory, ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Inventory were administrated for all the subjects. To analyze data Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were applied as main statistical procedure. The results indicated that the love and marital satisfaction had significant positive correlation in both males and females, and intimacy, commitment were suitable predictors of marital satisfaction.