JOURNLA OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHES
Year:2011 | Volume:3 | Issue:10|Papers Count:7

The aim of the present research was surveying of effectiveness of gradual de-stress training and problem focused copying on perceived stress in social damaged women. Because of that from social damaged women from Qazvin selected 45 people by sampling method and they divided randomly to two experimental groups and one control group.The quasi-experimental research project was a pretest-posttest kind with control group. perceived stress and anxiety questionnaires in pretest and posttest conducted on experiment and control groups. The first experiment group was under problem focused copying training and the second experiment group was under de-stress training and there was no instruction for control group. The results of research confirm that gradual de-stress training and problem focused copying is effective in reduction of anxiety and perceived stress in social damaged women. With regard to achieved results in research both methods (gradual de-stress training and problem focused copying) are effective.

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of psychological empowerment and locus of control on organizational commitment at State-run university of Shahid rajaee Teacher Training. From 230 staff employees, 136 subjects have been selected based on Morgan table. Data was collected through a three questionnaires (Alpha reliability coefficients, 0.73, 0.76 and 0.71 respectively). Data analysis was done by person and regression. The results demonstrated the positive and significance relationship among empowerment dimensions and organizational commitment dimensions. Also, linkage among meaningful and organizational commitment, self-choice and organizational commitment was significance. So, can be alleged that these relationships is significance and positive. In contrast, the relationship among effectiveness and organizational commitment was not significant. Base on correlation Pearson coefficient, the relationship among locus of control and organizational commitment, locus of control and affective commitment, locus of control and normative commitment was negative. Multiple regression results showed that organizational commitment has been predict only by meaningful dimension (B=0.18, P<0.001, F=12.18) and other dimensions of psychological empowerment could not be predictor of organizational commitment. With entering the locus of control in regression equation, prediction power of meaningful variable will be diminished and locus of control is best predictor of organizational commitment.

This study was aimed to determine the psychometric properties of Reker's Attitude of life questionnaire in a sample of 470 Iranian university students. The sample were selected by random method. Results show internal consistency of scores on attitude of life scale 0.853.An exploratory factor analysis was performed, using a varimax rotation, extracted 5 factors: Existential vacuum, Will to purpose, Meaning of subjective, Liberty, …. These factors explain 39.46percent of the total variance of variables. the alpha coefficient which was 0.702 for 47 item. the test_retest for 30 students after 1 month was 0.828 and pearson correlation coefficient to investigate the convergent validity between questionnaire attitude of life and questionnaire self esteem was 0.571 the result indicate questionnaire has enough convergent validity.