IRANIAN EVOLUTIONARY AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL
Year:2019 | Volume:1 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

Editorial The story of the establishing and attaining credit for the Iranian Evolutionary and Educational Psychology Journal is interesting and attractive as its contents IEEPJ was started initially by the name of Educational Evolutionary Psychology, licensed from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran by the Department of Psychology, University of Hormozgan. During the two issues, it published 14 articles. The mission of this new journal was to publish articles in the highly specialized field of evolutionary educational psychology. We believed this mission had failed before the start. The result of the review of the two issues of the journal showed that only a small number of published papers coincided with the journal's scope, and other published articles failed to convince the reviewers, despite having acceptable quality as a scientific paper. Editorial team, editors, and journal directors confronted with a big and disappointing failure.

One of the tasks of a university is student's competencies in different areas, including recognition of the future or futures studies. The growth of Students through improved education during the academic years will be able to futures studies; therefore, it can be argued that one of the critical variables that can affect students' futures growth potential, is the quality of their teaching and learning methods. This study aim is to design teaching methods based on the development of futures studies in higher education which was conducted by using grounded theory by the qualitative research. In this study, 12 experts of curriculum areas and futures studies were interviewed. The full text of responses of interviewees was performed from a recorded version in the coding process, the given comments were divided by software MAXQDA 12 into separate concepts and then familiar concepts set in a separate category, and the component of teaching methods was identified as the major categories of research. In the final model, the barriers, strategies, and consequences had presented for compiling of the teaching methods based on the futures studies development separately and in the framework of the analysis models.

This research was carried out with the aim of investigating the relationship between philosophical mentality components and irrational beliefs (Ellis theory) in the school principals of three educational levels in Islamshahr in the academic year of 2017-2018. The research method adopted is descriptive correlational. The statistical population selected for this study was 228 male and female managers of schools of three educational levels in Islamshahr in the academic year 2017-2018. The sample size was 140 using Morgan table. The stratified random sampling method was used. The instrument for collecting information was Philosophical Mental Questionnaire and Irrational Beliefs Questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the questionnaires were acceptable and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0. 74 for the philosophical mental questionnaire and. 087 for irrational beliefs questionnaire. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics including mean, as well as standard deviation and inferential statistics methods including correlation coefficients. Findings of the research revealed the inverse and meaningful correlation between each component of the philosophical mentality (comprehensiveness, meditations, and flexibility) and irrational beliefs.

The main objective of this study is to identify the psychological problems of 7-11 year-old children of divorce based on the lived experience of teachers and mothers. The research method used was one of a descriptive survey with the statistical population comprising elementary school male and female children aged 7-11. From this number, 280 comprised the sample selected from all the boys' and girls' schools in Esfahan using a multi-stage cluster sampling. The data collection instrument was the Achenbach questionnaire (Mother and Teacher inventory). The data were analyzed using Chi-square test where upon the results indicated that based on the mothers' reports, the commonest problems were complaints about physical pain (6. 8%), withdrawal, depression, aggressive behavior (6. 4%), and physical problems (6%). Furthermore, based on the teachers' reports, the commonest problems were anxiety or depression, physical and behavioral problems (6. 4%), aggressive behavior, emotional problems (6%), and social problems (5. 7%).

The general aim of the study is the identification of the managerial behavior components for the purpose of offering a model regarding the Iran’ s higher education system. Forty managers from the universities around Iran, including the directors and their vice presidents from the all types of universities have been asked to take part in the study. The data analysis was conducted through taking advantage of the qualitative background or grounded theory methodology and in the section on the causal conditions one of the subject matters obtained of the interest in the present study was the managerial behavior psychological basis. In regard of the psychological principles, eight general concepts were formed which are as follows: personality, intelligence, memory, aptitude, motivation, perception, emotion and stress. Generally, the findings indicated that in order for the managers to be equipped with managerial behavior they are in need of having thorough and proper studies and researches regarding the aforementioned components and try to handle tasks such as rethinking, restructuring and recreation of the components just cited.

Emotional divorce is accompanied by growing negative emotions and it affects couples’ relationship. Marital conflicts and interpersonal processing are among the important elements of a marital relationship. The present study is aimed at investigating the effect of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) on marital conflict and interpersonal processing of married women with emotional divorce in the city of Tehran. The method of the study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and follow-up with control group design. For this purpose, 40 women who were emotionally divorce were selected using convenience sampling and randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. Experimental group received ISTDP. Results revealed that the experimental group showed reduced conflict levels (F=43. 93, p<0. 01) and increased interpersonal processing (F= 85. 43, p<0. 01). Therefore, ISTDP reduces negative emotions and consequent conflicts in marital relationships and improving couples’ interpersonal processing.

Although emotions are the evolutionary mechanism, it has been attempted to control and direct these evolutionary programs. One of the ways to control emotions is to promote emotional self-efficacy. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of CBT and ACT on emotional self-efficacy of the family-headed women. For this purpose, 200 women were selected from among female-headed families under the auspices of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee (IKRC) of Tehran. They were tested by emotional self-efficacy questionnaire. The control group did not receive any intervention. The experimental groups went through nine training sessions, respectively, on the CBT and ACT. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS-23 software and one-way covariance analysis. Results showed that both of the approaches were effective in the dependent variable, but there was no significant difference between them. Based on the results of the research, emotional self-efficacy of the family headed women can be increased by group-based CBT and ACT approaches.

The existence of a positive relationship between moral activities and mental health has been established in some studies; however, there are different types of moral-related variables as well as mental health-related ones. The present study is aimed at examining the probable relationship between them. A body of 212 university freshmen completed questionnaires about different mental health-related variables and moral-related ones. After controlling the effects of social desirability and lie/nonsense responses, the relationship between moral-related and mental health-related variables was investigated through partial correlation. The findings indicated that mental healthrelated variables differently related to moral-related ones. Among the moral-related variables anonymous pro-social behavior and overall pro-social moral reasoning related to more numbers of mental health-related variables. Also, among the mental health-related variables perfectionism and social support related to a greater number of moralrelated variables. The findings were discussed in light of previous studies and the definitions of the variables.