JOURNLA OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHES
Year:2009 | Volume:1 | Issue:2|Papers Count:10

Today's cognitive behavior therapies are the paradigm of psychotherapy and have replaced psychoanalysis and behaviorism approaches. The purpose of current study was the comparison of rational-emotive-behavior therapy and reality therapy interventions, in increasing general health. In a quasi-experimental research with control group, 24 depressed students were assigned in two experimental and one control groups and then General Health Questionnaire was used. After measuring general health in phase one, the subjects of two experimental groups entered interventions sessions and nothing was done about control group. The first experimental group spent 8 sessions of grouped rational-emotive-behavior therapy intervention and the second experimental group spent 8 sessions of grouped reality therapy intervention. Measurement of phase two was conducted in two phases: one time immediately after therapies and another time three months after therapies as follow up. The results showed that rationzal emotive behavior therapy intervention and reality therapy intervention are both efficient in increasing general health and there is no difference between them.

This study considers the psychological features of parental spin test upon parents of primary students. Bu multi stages sampling method, 500 peoples had participated in this study. The results of data analyzing showed that: 1) the calculated reliability index for parental spin test is equal to 93% 2) by agent analyzing upon mentioned questionnaire that was performed for calculation of its reliability, the following agents were obtained: compatibility, acceptability, extra exceeding, temper, carelessness/ extra action, strengthening, depression, affection, role limitations, capability sense, social isolation, relationship with wife and health of parents. For considering the minor questions of the test, the study used one-way variance analyzing. and the following results were obtained: between parents of students in selected regions of Tehran city from the view of parental spin, there is meaningful difference. Between parents of students in selected regions of Tehran city from the view of minor scales of parental spin level, there is meaningful difference.

The present paper research investigates the relation between the self-esteem and the job burnout in public normal schools and exceptional schools (schools for disabled and mentally retarded students). To serve the purpose, Kerjcie and Morgan table was employed and a bunch of 200 men and women teacher busy teaching in the middle schools of Qazvine provience were chosen by cluster random sampling method in the school year of 2008-2009. To collect the information, Cooper Smith’s self-esteem questionnaire and Potter’s job burnout questionnaire was used. The research data was analyzed by descriptive statistics methods (central tendency criterions) and inferential statistics (multi-factor variance analysis, Pierson correlation method, T-test for independent groups and Eta-test) which led to the following findings: -There is no significant difference between self-esteem and job burnout between normal and exceptional schools’ teachers.-There is a significant difference in general between the members of the sample group.-There is a considerable difference in self-esteem and job burnout among public normal school teachers.-There is not a notable difference in self-esteem and job burnout among the exceptional schools teachers.-There is not an understandable difference in job burnout between teachers in normal and exceptional schools.-There is not any significant difference in self-esteem between teachers in normal and exceptional schools.-There is a considerable difference in self-esteem between men and women of the sample group.-There is a notable difference in job burnout between men and women teachers of the sample group.-There is not a significant difference in selfesteem between men and women teachers in exceptional schools.-There is not a considerable difference in job burnout between the men and women teachers of exceptional schools.-There is not a significant difference in self-esteem among men and women teachers of normal and exceptional schools. There is a considerable difference in job burnout between men and women teachers of normal schools. The share of gender variable effects and the kind of schools (normal or exceptional) in self-esteem and job burnout was also taken into consideration.

This research is accomplished to study the effect of Tranactional Analysis training on Emotional Intelligence in female students who study in Tehran University This research design is included in a Quasi-experimental designs with pretest-post test and control group with 40 subjects (20 experimental group and 20 control group). The research instrument is Emotional Intelligence questionary (Bar-on). The instruction consists of 4 sessions (once a week for 4 hours every session), then the questionary is filled out and measured. Data analysis showed that Transactional Analysis training has positive effect on Emotional Intelligence in university students.In addition, this training has affected 7 factors of Emotional Intelligence (Happiness, Stress tolerance, Emotional self-awareness, Reality testing, Impulse control, Felexibility, and Assertiveness).

This research was conducted with the aim of practicality, Reliability, and Validity Achievement Motivation Inventory among the personnel. A sample of 522 personnel was chosen from home appliance manufacturing and industrial companies in Tehran by multistage sampling. Achievement Motivation Inventory questionnaire of 170 items was given to them in order to assess their advancement motivation. Each one of the questionnaires was scored on a 7 degree spectrum, ranging from "does not apply "to" applies completely". After data collection, the correlation of each item was calculated with the total score of the collection. The coefficient of twenty items was weak and statistically unsignificant therefore were omitted. The alpha coefficient which was 0.934 for the 170 items increased to 0.967 after the omission of 20 items. For the construct validity of the questionnaire and in order to find an answer to the question "How many factors have Achievement Motivation Inventory?", the factor analysis method was used. The adequacy of KMO is equal to 0.923 and the significant of it showed us the existence of appropriate conditions for performing the factor analysis method. After omitting the above items, Other 13 items which had a factor value of less than 0.3 according to the method of Principal Component analysis and varimax rotation, by giving attention to the factor matrix and screenship graph and the percentage of explained variance from the set of 137 items, 9 factors were extracted which explain 36.8 percent of the total variance between the variables. The first factor with 69 items and the special value of 28.744 covers about 21 percent of the total variance of the variables. Results demonstrate that the 137 items collection, which include of 9 factors in this study has enough validity to assess Achievement Motivation Inventory. For evaluating another type of validity (convergent validity), the correlation between the materials of AMI questionnaire and achievement ( advancement) motivation test (: Hermanz) was calculated. The results indicate that the questionnaire has enough convergent validity. The simple structure of the factors has led to these results. The first factor with 69 items indicated tendency and pride towards advancement, The second factor with 22 items indicated bravery, The third factor with 16 items indicated the occupational self-efficience, The fourth factor with 5 items indicated perseverance, The fifth factor with 4 items indicated risk-taking, The sixth factor with 7 items indicated self-confidence, The seventh factor with 7 items indicated preference, The eighth factor with 4 items indicated the place of external sensor, The ninth factor with 4 items indicated learning enthusiasm. The categorical norm made up, in order to analyze and interpret the numbers of the sample group.

The aim of this study is considering relationship between insecurity in family with attitude toward drugs. For this reason 300students were selected by multi stages sampling method. The study asked examiners for answering the questionnaires of attitude drug’s evaluation and insecurity questionnaire in family center. The results show that between insecurity in family center and student’s attitude toward effects of drugs, their habit for using drugs and also their unreal imagination abut gangers of drugs, there is meaningful relationship and also the results show that not only usage of drugs by parents, but also their attitudes toward usage of drugs, is very important in this field.

The present study aimed at standardization emotional intelligence scale in governmental highschools in Tehran city. A total number of 456 teachers served as the subjects of this study. Questionnaire with 98 items using likert scale rating of 1 to 4 served as the research tool. In primary stage the questionnaire had reliability coefficient of 0/754, having 15 items with low and nonsignificant item-total polyserial correlations. In the final stage, after deleting these 15 items, the sale with 83 items showed a reliability coefficient of 0/751. principal component analysis using varimax rotation, resulted in the following components: 1) social awareness, 2) responsibility, 3) cooperation, 4) self managing and correct performance, 5) obeying moral basis, 6) need for other’s friendship, 7) leadership, 8) flexibility, self–control or self-restraint, 9) decision making power and stability, 10) sutiable opportunities and positive leadership of behaviours, 11) attempt to reaching goal, 12) interpersonal ability for communication and social relationship, 13) other people persuasion and effect in them and 14) cooperation working and collaboration.

In eastern Mediterranean and in cultures before emergence of writing, in America (before its discovery by Christof Columbus) and in Africa, this belief existed that mental disorders like other physical diseases are also descended by god or gods. In those periods due to unfamiliarity of people with complexity of human brain functions, people used to attribute reason of any misfortune, abnormal behaviors or mental abnormality of mankind to devils and also they used white magic and black magic. Meanwhile prognosis of some special mental disorders were recognized on basis of numbers study, fortune-telling, divination and by persons who according to themselves and beliefs of the sufferers who consulted them had special intuitive powers (Zilbourgh 1941).