JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Year:2013 | Volume:5 | Issue:15|Papers Count:10

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of education- based and research- based curriculum at primary school level. The third grade primary school female students in Urmia were the statistical population of this research including 50 people who were selected randomly using multiple cluster sampling. The research methodology was quasi-experimental. In order to collect data, post-test with experts’ acceptable validity and reliability of 68%, and check lists of observing activities with experts’ acceptable validity and reliability of 98% were used. These check lists were completed by 4 BA primary school teachers. The students were randomly assigned into two groups. One group was taught via education-based method and the other group was instructed via research-based method for two months. Control for confounding variables in addition to the random assignment of teachers in both groups were used. To compare two research based and education based methods Mann Whitney u-Test was used. The main results showed that there is a significant difference between events, skills, attitudes and satisfactions of research based students and those of education based and the research hypothesis was accepted, therefore the research based curriculum is more effective than training based curriculum.

The aim of the present study was to investigate relationship between adjustment dimensions and academic performance in students. 380 male and female students of high school were selected by cluster sampling. Information was gathered using Bell Adjustment Inventory. Data were analyzed by correlation coefficient and regression analysis and t-test. Results indicated significant relationship between home adjustment and academic adjustment with academic performance in female students. Also the results revealed significant relationship between academic adjustment and academic performance in male students. The results were representative of significant difference in emotional adjustment of male and female students. Considering importance of family and school factors related to adjustment and academic performance, it is a necessity that parents and educators recognize characteristics of adolescents and promote adjustment skills through increasing adolescents, information and knowledge.

The main objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of applying ICT on empowering teachers’ job in bushehr. This research was descriptive and in post-occurrence causal type, the population of this research were the official male and female teachers in the city of Bushehr in the scholastic year 91-92 who used ICT facilities in their schools. The research sample consisted of 150 teachers who were selected through available sampling method. Data collection included two questionnaires related to ICT (researcher-made) and teachers’ empowerment scale (standard). The appropriateness of the tools was determined according to content validity and its reliability was estimated by Cronbach’s alpha in, performance improvement indicators of teachers, independence and freedom of action in teachers, and increased decision-making responsibilities. The result showed that the use of ICT has been significantly effective on the improvement of the quality of performance and increasing the decision- making responsibility, however, the use of ICT does not affect the independence and freedom of their action.

The present research sought to investigate moral intelligence and its aspects and variables in M.A students of educational sciences in Khwarizmi University. It was of descriptive correlational type. The statistical population included 220 students of whom 140 were selected as sample through Kokran’s systematic sampling method. To assess living quality, the WHO standard questionnaire (1998) was implemented, to measure moral intelligence, Lenik, Kill and Jordan’s standard questionnaire (2011) was used. Freidman’s test results indicated that there was significant difference between moral intelligence variables. Correlation test results approved positive and significant correlation between age and moral intelligence. One way ANOVA results indicated significant difference in respect to moral intelligence among different educational groups (degree). T-test results for independent groups indicated that moral intelligence rate in married students was more than that of singles. Overall results showed that moral intelligence variables were above average in university students.

The aim of the current research was to predict anxiety and depression based on God concept among college medical students. To this end, 443 students from Tehran and Iran Medical Sciences Universities were selected by means of proportional stratified sampling. Religious Concept Survey (Gorsuch, 1968) and Anxiety and Depression Scales of Symptom Checklist-90-R (Deragotis, et al., 1973) were administered to them. Regression analysis was used to analyze data. Results indicated that anxiety and depression of college students can be predicted from their God concept. Moreover, data revealed that students who had a positive God concept had lower anxiety and depression than students who had a negative God concept.

The purpose of present study was to determine the relationship of general health and perceived social support with life satisfaction in elderly people. In this research, statistical population was elderly people aged 60 or more in nursing home in Tehran. Using cluster random sampling, 230 elderly people (138 female &92 male) were selected. In respect to methodology of correlation, participants answered questionnaires of General health, social support and elderly life satisfaction, the collected data were analyzed by statistical tests of Pearson correlation and multiple regression. Research findings indicated that there was significant relationship between general health and perceived social support with life satisfaction. As such, findings showed that there was significant relationship between residence time in nursing home and General Health and Life Satisfaction. The results of the research provide some evidence to suggest that the components of general health and social support explain some variance of Life Satisfaction. In addition, it is concluded that residence time in nursing home explain some variance of general health and life satisfaction in elderly people. Overly, the components of General Health, Social Support and residence time explain Life Satisfaction by influencing loneliness feeling, control of life, independency, decision making, self-management, social communication and valuable feeling.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parenting styles, perfectionism, and social anxiety in gifted students. So, 135 students from Farzanegan high school in Rasht City were selected randomly and were asked to complete Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS), Social Anxiety Scale (SPIN), the parents were asked to complete Diana Bamrynd parenting style scale. Results of Pearson correlation and regression analysis showed that, among the three dictatorship parenting styles, there was no significant relationship between robust and easy-igniter wit social anxiety. Furthermore, among the dimensions of perfectionism, parental criticism, doubts about actions, no worry about mistakes, parental expectations, could explain social anxiety, and personal criteria cannot be adequately predicted. Also, the total score of perfectionism, parental expectations, parental criticism, and personal standards may explain %0.38 of variation of social anxiety in intelligent students. The results of this study can be helpful for a variety of organizations including educational institutions, universities, medical institutions, clinics.

Hermeneutic history is commonly divided to three periods from the beginning up to now. In the First period of hermeneutic history, Greek myths and legends were regarded as the only topic and belonging of commentary and interpretation. But after the appearance of Christianity and during the Medieval period (second period) commentary and interpretation of the Bible replaced it. Schhiermacher added to the scope and extent of commentary and interpretation and believed each text (whether religious or not) needed it. So, by this new period (third period) of Hermeneutics began. This thought was welcomed by Dilthey and he generalized the scope of Hermeneutics to the whole of the humanities and introduced hermeneutics as the best way for the humanities.