QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2015 | Volume:4 | Issue:3 (15)|Papers Count:8

Objective: According to frequency of headache and its impact on performances temperament and its increasing effect on physical heath and psychological and social losses, the purpose of this study is comparing irrational beliefs, D personality type and quality of life inpatients with migraine and healthy.  Method: In the casual - comparative study, sample consisted of 200 people (100 people with migraines and 100 healthy people) that people with migraine visted neurologist in Rasht city 1391 that were selected by available sampling method. to collecting data was used from irrational beliefs scales, D personality type and quality of life questionnaire. research data using Multivariate variance analysis were analyzed.  Findings: The results showed that under irrational beliefs scales and D personality type and quality of life, there is a significant different between two groups. Conclusion: These findings showed that irrational beliefs, D personality type and quality of life are almost effective structures on migraine headaches. these results have important implications about irrational beliefs and importance of therapeutic interventions to improving the quality of life for people with migraine headaches that has been considered in the article.

Objective: Breast cancer can cause of many problems in physical, mental and social performance, including pain and can cause reduced quality of life. The aim of this study is the effect of coping skills training program on pain and quality of life in breast cancer patients residing in the city of Dezful. Method: Method of this study is a quasi-experimental research design with pretest - posttest control group. During an informal invitation 34 patients were enrolled in the study were eligible. The patients were randomly divided into experiment and control groups (each group include 17 subjects). Experiment group were received 8 sessions 1.5 h weekly of coping skills program (Lazaruss, Folkman, 1984). Participants completed brief pain questionnaire (BPI) and quality of life questionnaire (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)) before and after starting the program. Findings: The results of the descriptive analysis showed that experimental group have better in global quality of life and its dimensions, also experiment group reduced in both severity pain and interference in daily functioning than the control group. Conclusion: MANCOVA analysis demonstrates that coping training caused enhancement of quality of life and diminish the pain in experiment group.

Objective: The goal of this study was to compare facets of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patient with migraine headache, tension headache and normal individuals. Method: The design of this study was causal- comparative and statistical study population included all patients with migraine and tension headache referred to neurology clinic of Tehran Imam Hossein Hospital at May-December 2012. The sample of study included 30 patients with migraine headache, 30 patients with tension headache and 30 normal individuals. The instrument was Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The data was analyzed by MANOVA and HOC Tukey test. Results: The results show that there are significant differences in facets of cognitive emotion regulation strategies among migraine headache, tension headache and normal individuals

Objective: Interpersonal problems and and emotional regulation skills in studies as psychological differences of obese and overweight women has been reviewed and approved.The present study comparede the efficacy between interpersonal therapy and emotional management of weight loss in obese and overweight women. Method: 80 women with a BMI over 24/9 participated in this study. Asked subjects to complete Interpersonal Problems (IPP-127, Horovitz, et al, 1988) and emotional regulation Questioneres (ERSQ-27, Berking & znoj, 2007). Overweight and obese groups were trated during 6 months with two method, IPT and ITEC. At the end of treatment, were investigated weight loss as BMI.Result: result showed that IPT and ITEC are different on weight loss in obese and overweight women. Obese women with IPT compared obese with ITEC loss weight greater. While weight loss in overweight women with ITEC compared overweight with IPT was not significant.Conclusion: Based  in the findings, we conclude that IPT and ITEC are an effective treatment for weight loss in obese and overweight women.

Objective: The Internet addiction among students in university is one of the modern addictions in modern societies. The purpose of this research was to compare of five-factor NEO personality traits among non-addiction and exposed to addiction students in Garmsar. Methods: This research was a comparative- causality study. The statistical population included all male and female bachelor’s degree students in Garmsar university during 2013 that 286 subjects were randomly selected by multistage clustering. Data was collected by two questionnaires including Yung’s Internet addiction test and the short form of five-factor Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Findings: Data analysis revealed a significant difference in non-addiction and exposed to addiction students between the personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness (p Conclusions: Three personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness are less in exposed addiction students than non-addiction groups. So, exposed to addiction students because of introversion have less agreeableness with others and reported less conscientiousness, so they spent much time on internet.

Objective: This research aimed at surveying the role of predicting religiosity on tendency toward high risk behaviors in adolescent mediated by emotion regulation. Method: The statistical population of this study comprised all the students of Esfahan five areas high schools. Among them in 1391, a total of 338 people (176 male, 207 female) who were selected using random multistage cluster sampling method. The subjects completed the following questionnaires: Religiosity scale, Difficulty in Emotional Regulation scale, Iranian Adolescent Risk-Taking scale. The data were analyzed with SPSS 16 and AMOS Graphics 21 (statistical software) through path way analyses and multiple­ regression method. Results: Result showed that difficulty in emotion regulation mediated to some extent between religiosity and high risk behaviors. There was independent and significant association between religiosity and high risk behaviors. Conclusion: Adolescent who have stronger religious beliefs and regulate their emotions effectively less likely to engage in risky behaviors.

Aim: The present study was conducted in order to investigate stressors and coping Strategies in patients suffering from skin diseases and in normal persons.Method: The research method was causal-comparative. The sample consisted of 100 patients and 100 normal people. For the data collection, two instruments of Coping Strategies Scale of Lazarus (1985), and Paykel Life Event Inventory (1971) were used. Multivariate Analysis of Variance was used for testing of Hypothesis.Results: The findings of the study indicated that there was no significant difference on stressors of the members of the two groups and the two groups were only different in appraisal intensity of stress. It means that the mean of stress appraisal in the patient group was higher than the normal group. In addition, among the coping strategies, there was a significant difference between the two groups only with regard to positive reassessment coping, i.e., normal people obtained higher scores than the patient group in the positive reassessment. But in the other copies strategies, no significant difference was observed.Conclusion: The findings of the study can be used to intervene in the mental health and treatment of skin diseases.