JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Year:2013 | Volume:4 | Issue:14|Papers Count:9

This research aimed to determine the effect of emotional intelligence on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of IAU staff, Shabestar branch. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the population consisted of all IAU of Shabestar branch staff in 1391-1392 from whom 131 employees were selected using random sampling proportional method. To collect data, three questionnaires were used namely: Siber or Shirring’s emotional intelligence, Kendal’s job satisfaction and Porter’s organizational commitment. Collected data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential methods as Pearson’s correlation coefficient, regression and factor analysis. The results indicated that emotional intelligence and its components could not predict job satisfaction and organizational commitment except social consciousness that predicted organizational commitment (p<0.05). Also, job satisfaction and its components could not predict organizational commitment. As a result, various factors are effective in organizational commitment and job satisfaction of a given office’s staff and that emotional intelligence is one of important variables. To increase organizational commitment and job satisfaction, there should be a comprehensive planning.

In the present century, the relationship between human being and environment and its convertibility to a language of environmental and architectural designing has been inquired and noticed by researchers of this area of discipline. This article seeks to analytically review the science of environmental psychology, theories, schools and the effect of the built environment on human behavior and mind. In this investigation, it has been realized that through the collaboration between two fields of behavioral sciences and architecture, there has came an inter-disciplinary science “Environmental Psychology” and the designing theories have been generated based on needs and human’s understanding of the living environment. Accordingly, environmental psychology can be regarded as the common field between architecture and behavioral sciences.

This study sought to compare the official and hidden curriculum of third grade primary school “Social Education” text book in relation to social skills acquisition. The statistical population included all third grade primary teachers of Karaj educational district 4 in the scholastic year of 1389-90 (783 teachers). The sample consisted of 258 teachers selected based on cluster method. The research design was of comparative type and data were gathered through a 50-item researcher-made questionnaire with a reliability index of 0.895. The gathered data were analyzed through SPSS. Descriptive analysis included frequency, percentage, average etc, and inferential included t-test. Results with %99 certainty of teachers and experts were the following: comparison of official and hidden curriculum in relation to their own behavior indicated no significant difference between official and hidden curriculum; comparison of official and hidden curriculum in relation to environment indicated significant difference between official and hidden curriculum which is in favor of official curriculum; comparison of official and hidden curriculum in relation to occupational behavior indicated no significant difference between official and hidden curriculum; comparison of official and hidden curriculum in relation to inter-personal behaviors indicated significant difference between official and hidden curriculum which is in favor of official curriculum.

This study aimed to investigate relationship between emotional intelligence and critical thinking in students’ perceptions of social interactions. The study was descriptive-correlational. Therefore, from among all male and female students studying in master’s degree in counseling and archeology at IAU, Abhar branch, 156 were randomly selected as the sample and were divided into two groups based on their majors. To collect data, Peter Haney’s critical thinking scale and Carl R. Glass emotional intelligence scale were implemented. The data gathered were analyzed using correlational and regressional SPSS tests. Findings indicated a strong correlation between emotional intelligence and perceptions of social interactions, and also, between critical thinking and perceptions of social interactions. There was also significant relationship between emotional intelligence, critical thinking and perceptions of social interactions.

This study aimed to identify obstacles and challenges of doing researches in instructional units of Alborz province through the survey method. The population included 220 school managers from which 166 were selected randomly by Kokran’s formula. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 21 Likert-type items (totally agreed-agreed-disagreed-totally disagreed). The results indicated that the most important obstacles and challenges, in this regard, were ordered as the following in respect to their degree of importance: shortage of rules and regulations, shortage of budget and equipments, lack of serious support to researchers, inefficiency of instructional methods and evaluation and not applying research findings in instructional units.

In this research, the sample consisted of 50 female high school students of first and second grades (aged 16-18) in Karaj educational district one, selected through multi-stage random method. At the pretest stage “Cattle Anxiety Test” and “Sarsowat Self-image Test” were used. Then, coloring therapy was performed in about 12 weeks; then, post test was conducted. Results indicated that all sub-test scores in self-image test were improved. In the anxiety test, just the main scores showed statistically meaningful reduction. These results were compatible with previous results coming from a study on effects of coloring therapy on teenage girls. This study showed that coloring therapy is a useful method and can be used in therapeutic efforts along with other methods.

The present study sought to identify self-differentiation and ego development level and their relationship to marital adjustment rate in cases referring to counseling clinics in 2011.65 couples were selected through available sampling from among volunteer couples referring to counseling clinics in Tehran. The study was correlational. Through questionnaires of self-differentiation, ego development level and marital adjustment the required data were gathered and then analyzed using tests of multi-variate regression and Pearson’s correlation. Findings showed that there was significant relationship between self-differentiation and ego development level and marital adjustment rate in both men and women (p<0.01). The results of this research present some evidence suggesting that the interaction of self-differentiation and ego development could explain the marital adjustment rate in couples. These variables can influence marital adjustment between couples through the mechanisms of sense balancing of belonging to the original family and independency under influence of interpersonal, intra-personal, and personal development.

This research aimed to investigate the main reasons of committing suicide and its decision-making process among women in Ilam province of Iran and Dushanbe of Tajikistan. This study was aimed to be practical and was performed utilizing qualitative research method. The population included the survived/rescued women who had committed suicide and immolation in 2011-2012.30 women from Iran and 30 women from Tajikistan were selected using the access sampling method. Information gathering was performed by in-depth interviews and the thematic coding method was utilized for data analysis. Findings showed that diseconomy and traditional culture, as the main causes of domestic violence, domination of men over women and husband’s family interference, created the feelings of worthlessness and lack of self-esteem in these women, which, in turn, gave them the courage to attempt suicide in the worst possible way.