JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Year:2012 | Volume:4 | Issue:13|Papers Count:9

Islamic clothes as a spiritual food is both external and internal support against non-intimate people which provides moral family immunity and links apparent hijab to internal avoidance and more importantly provides social security dating back to man’s creation. Clothes of each human-being reflect his country’s flag installed on his soul’s house announcing he is from which culture. The present study investigated hijab’s status and important factors including family, cultural, economical and individual, effective on bad hijab. The research was of survey type and correlational. Data were gathered using questionnaire and administrating it among 200 female IAU, Abhar branch students from different majors selected randomly. Results indicated that there was relationship among Islamic Hijab and family, social, cultural, economical, and individual factors.

The statistical population in this research in the first step included all religious textbooks of primary school level and in the second step included 326 primary students in Karaj city selected through cluster random method. The research type was descriptive using content analysis in the firststep and was experimental in the second step. A 26-item researcher-made questionnaire with the reliability index of 0.82 was used to collect data. To analyze data, descriptive and inferential statistics (independent T-test and Man Whitney’s test) were used. Results indicated that: 1) in respect to the rate of attention to spiritual components, the highest rate (72%) was for intellectuality and the lowest rate (3%) was for spiritual expense; 2) convenient spiritual curriculum for primary level means a pattern based on 4 components of world awareness, other awareness, self awareness and God awareness for which Holy Quran has set aims, content, teaching and evaluation methods; 3) spiritual factors are different in the control and experimental groups but the same in both sexes.

Pray and praying is one of the main religious indications in Islam which has important functions including prevention from obscene and wrong doing, purification and spiritual health, reducing social abnormalities etc. Islamic Azad University as a higher education institute having the suffix “Islamic” should be ahead and a pattern in cultural issues for all other institutes in the country. This research, in addition to finding the root and causes of students’ tendency toward praying, tried to give solutions to university authorities. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire was administered to 174 students. The research type was survey method using SPSS.

The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between organizational citizenship behavior components in District 4 of Tabriz foreign language teaching institutes. The variables in this study were the effective implementation of organizational citizenship behavior indicators which have been identified in the previous researches. Data collection was done by two researcher-made questionnaires whose validity and reliability were approved through test-retest method and content reliability respectively. Final data were analyzed by MATLAB software. Results indicated that the “magnanimity” indicator with the highest rate of being influenced and “altruism” with the highest rate of being influential were recognized. “Training” and “specifying the objectives, responsibilities and authorizations” activities had the highest guidance power. “The immunity of job environment” and “job enrichment” had the highest level of being influenced.

This research introduces a model based on family for preventing drugs consumption among students. The researcher’s framework is a mixture of social order theories of Persons, Nai and Hirshi’s social control approach and Saterland’s social learning theory. The statistical population included 1200 guidance and high school students of Tehran evenly selected from districts 12, 5, 4, and 16 through multi-step cluster method. Data collection instrument was questionnaire. Results indicated that the variables of family control, educational commitments, religious beliefs in family, family disputes, equipments provided by family, blameworthiness within family, family disunity, and economical social basis of students were correlated to tendency to addiction.

The aim of this research was to study the role of couple personality similarity and emotional maturity in satisfaction. For this end, 150 couples (300 individuals) who referred to Karaj counseling centers were chosen with available sampling procedure. To gather data, five factor personality, differentiation of self, and Enrich marital satisfaction questionnaires were used. The results indicated that the couples who had similar personality traits were satisfied more than couples who had different personality traits. Differentiated couples were more satisfied than undifferentiated couples.

The present study aimed to investigate relationship between identity and thinking styles and that of students’ accountability. From among 3500 pre-university level females as the statistical population 348 students were chosen through multistep cluster method and the intended questionnaire was administered to them. To collect data, Sterenberg-Wagner’s thinking styles, Berzonsky’s identity styles, and Karami-Nemati’s accountability questionnaires were used. Results indicated that there was significant correlation between identity styles and accountability. There was also significant correlation between thinking styles and accountability. Identity style’s share in predicting accountability was more than thinking styles.

The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) on reducing stress of people with late blindness. The study’s design was pretest posttest and follow-up with two groups: experimental and control. The chosen sample members were assigned into two groups of experimental and control randomly (30 clients in each group). Only the experimental received REBT training. To gather data, IBT and DASS 21 questionnaires were used. The data were analyzed using T-test. The groups were not different significantly in the pretest and in the posttest; the experimental group had significantly higher scores than its pretest results but this was not the case in the control group. Thus, REBT was proven to be effective and the effectiveness interference through group training of REBT with the experimental group can be evaluated as constant. As a whole, the findings indicated the effectiveness of group coaching of REBT in reducing stress of people with late blindness.