WOMAN & STUDY OF FAMILY
Year:2015 | Volume:7 | Issue:27|Papers Count:11

The purpose of present study was to investigate the effect of self- control training on self-esteem and procrastination a mong first grade female high school students in Urmia. The design of the research was a quasi- experimental with pretest - posttest and a control group. 26 subjects were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling from among all first-grade high school female students who were enrolled in 2013- 14 school year in Urmia; They are randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control. Coppersmith's self - esteem tests were used. Pre - test and post test were administered before and after implementation of the independent variable. Self-control training program was done 10 sessions, once a week for experimental groups; while the control group continued their routine course. 4 Hypothesis are considered and examined using analysis of covariance. The results showed that the r e was a significant difference between total self- esteem scores and its four dimensions; i.e., self-control training significantly increased self-esteem in the experimental group.

Family is the first area to be affected in the formation of personality and parents are the principal transferring behavior in their children. The present study investigated the intermediary role of perfectionism in the relationship between parental bonding and anxiety in the student. For this purpose, 207 male and female students of Islamic Azad University of Beyza, with cluster sampling were selected. They answered the anxiety, perfectionism, and Parker parental bonding questionnaires. The findings were analyzed by means of path analysis. The results supported the role of intermediary perfectionism. Patterns for each of the predictor variables to predict the criterion variable by interface variable was different. Our results indicate that, in many parent-child relationships, not only the fathers will influencing children's future, but sometimes has more important performance than the mothers.

This study aimed to examine the resiliency as mediators between attitude and practice of prayer and marital commitment on female teachers in a city of Birjand. The sample consisted of 187 fem ale teachers in public schools in the city of Birjand in the academic year 2013 - 2014, who were selected by clustering methodand and they answered the Scales of attitude and practice of prayer and resiliency and marital commitment. For analysis, structural equation modeling approach was used. The Fitted model showed that the attitude and practice of prayer have a significant positive contribution in the anticipation of Resiliency, and also indirectly, through the intermediary of resilience predicts the marital commitment. Thus it can be said that resiliency explain the practical attitude and commitment to prayer on the marital commitment.

The study predicted psychological well- being of mothers based on their attachment styles and self- compassion. This research was a descriptive- correlational study. The sample consisted of 600 mothers of elementary school students in Urmia that were selected by multi-stage random sampling. Data were collected using questionnaires about adult attachment, self - compassion, and psychological well- being. The collected data were analyzed with Pearson correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Result of the study indicated that psychological well - being had significant positive relationship with secure attachment style and self- compassion. However, it had a negative significant relationship with insecure attachment. The results of multiple regression analysis revealed that psychological well- being of mothers can be predicted from their self - compassion and attachment styles. Predictor variables together explained 32% of the changes in psychological well - being (P<0.001). The results of the prediction shows that when the mothers have higher secure attachment style and self- compassion and also lower anxious attachment style, the probability of their psychological well-being would be higher.

This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of spiritual therapy in order to increase marital satisfaction and decrease generalized anxiety disorder of women. The statistical population included all women's with marital non - satisfaction difficulty and generalized anxiety disorder referred to Ehya counseling center of Mashhad City. From among them 40 woman that were selected with a purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control (each group 20 person). This study used a quasi - experimental design by pre-test and post-test with the control group. The experimental group underwent spiritual therapy for eight sessions of 80 minutes. The control group was left untreated. The instruments of this research were marital satisfaction questionnaire of evaluation and nurturing relationship issues communication and happiness (ENRICH) and Cattell generalized anxiety questionnaires. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). The findings of the post-test spiritual therapy showed a significant increase in the marital satisfaction of women and a significant decrease in the generalized anxiety of women. On the other hand, meta - cognitive therapy significantly led to increase of the marital satisfaction of women (P£0.001). The results are due to the importance of intervention by spiritual therapy to increase marital satisfaction and decrease generalized anxiety of women.

The present study compared the emotional intelligence and self- perception of the mothers who have mentally retarded children and those who have normal ones in the design of the study was a comparative one Meshkin Shahr city. The population of the study included all the mother s (1000) who live in Meshkin Shahr in 1392 and have children by the age of 7-14. Among them 88 mothers had children with mental retardation. According to the table of Morgan, From among these population 66 mothers with mentally retarded children and 66 mothers with normal children were selected as the sample of the study. Data were collected through the self- perception and emotional intelligence questionnaires. Results of the Multivariate Analysis (MANOVA) showed that there is a significant difference between the self - perception and emotional intelligence of the mothers with retarded children and mothers with normal children (p<0.05). The amount of the difference was 54% in the variable of emotional intelligence.

The current study examined the effectiveness of cognitive and metacognitive strategies on Female high school student's goal orientation, test anxiety and academic achievement in Karaj. Method: 65 students were assigned into experimental and control groups. Both groups answered "cognitive and metacognitive strategies questionnaire", "Test anxiety questionnaire" and "goal orientation scale". Experimental group attended a 10 sessions, (2 hours each session) workshop. At the end of intervention, the two groups answered the same questionnaires. Result: using multivariate analysis of covariance and t-test, the two groups were compared on post- tests, while pretests were assigned as covariate. The results showed that the program was successful, resulting in the significant increase of learning goal orientation, and academic achievement, however, no significant effect was found on the performance goal and avoidance goal orientation variable. The treatment also decreased the test anxiety of the students. Conclusion: the present study indicated that cognitive and metacognitive strategies program is a useful program for raising the learning goal orientation, academic achievement and reducing test anxiety of the students.

The main purpose of this study was to identify the Relationship between the life style, creativity and educational motivation of Female high school students. The population included female students of Khoy schools. This research has a correlation design that consists of a sample of 361 students. The sampling method is clutter sampling. Life style Scale, educational motivation scale and creativity Questionnaire was used. Regression and Pearsons coefficient of correlation Tests were applied to analyze data. The results showed there was a significant Relationship between the life style and creativity with educational motivation. Also there was a significant Relationship between the life style and internal / external motivation. On other hand there was a significant Relationship between creativity and internal motivation However, there wasn't any significant relationship between the creativity and external motivation. Conclusion: life style and creativity can predict educational motivation.