JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS AND METHODS
Year:2018 | Volume:9 | Issue:33 |Papers Count:8

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of gestalt therapy and music therapy on test anxiety and educational well-being in Secondary school female students. The research method was experimental, with a pretest-post test design. The statistical population of the study included all the female secondary school students in Shiraz. The statistical sample included two training groups (Each comprising 15 people) and a control group (15 people) selected by multistage cluster random sampling method. The two experimental groups received Gestalt Therapy and Music Therapy. The research instrument included the Friedman Exercise Anxiety Scale and the Salemla-Aru and Apadaya educational well-being Scale. The results of multivariate analysis of variance revealed the significant effect of gestalt therapy and music therapy on test anxiety (F=20. 44 & P=0. 000) And educational well-being (F=47. 48 & P=0. 000). Also, there was no significant difference between Gestalt therapy and Music Therapy in exam anxiety and educational well-being (P> 0. 05).

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship A Causal model for sexual role Schema, sexual knowledge and self differentiation. The statistical population of this study was ordinary married women in Shiraz. To determine the sample size, using randomized sampling method, based on the number of components in the model, there were 310 normal couples including 155 women and 155 married men whose marriage duration varied between 5 and 12 years, and The age of those under 50 was chosen. The data gathering tool, which included three scalar differentiation Scorner et al., Sexual awareness of Snell, Fisher and Miller, was a gender role model of Bam, which confirmed the validity and reliability of the instrument. Data analysis was carried out using Spss and Amos software at descriptive and inferential levels. The results showed that the results showed that the effect of gender role models and sexual anxiety scales on meaningful differentiation is meaningful, meaning that gender role models have a direct and significant effect on differentiating effect and sexual awareness has a reverse and significant effect on differentiation.

This study aimed to examine the mediating role of academic self-efficacy belief, academic self-esteem and academic stress between perceived social support and academic well-being components. The sample consisted of 230 high school students were selected using perceived social support multi-stage cluster sampling completed the scales of 8 academic self-efficacy belief, academic self-esteem, academic stress and academic well-being. The proposed model was evaluated using structural equation modeling. The results indicated social support had positive relationship with school value, satisfaction with educational choice and schoolwork engagement and negative relationship with School burnout. Also perceived social support through academic self-efficacy belief, academic self-esteem and academic stress, cause to forecast academic well-being components. According to, it can be said perceived social support through promoting academic self-efficacy belief and academic self-esteem cause to decrease academic stress and this path cause to promote academic well-being components. These findings emphasized the role of social support in incite people in confront to stress and access to well-being in academic environment.

The present study aimed at exploring the effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on emotion regulation, defense mechanisms, and quality of life of female students with social anxiety. The research was quasi-experimental following a pretest-posttest control group design. The population of the study consisted of all upper secondary level female students of Karaj city in 2017. Thirty students were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling from among those whose scores were high on the Social Anxiety Questionnaire and were then assigned to an experimental and a control group. The instruments of the study included the Spence Social Anxiety Scale, the Cognitive-Emotion Questionnaire, the Defense Mechanism Rating Scale, and the WHO Quality of Life questionnaire. The data were analyzed using covariance analysis with SPSS v. 22. The results indicated a significant difference between the groups in the mean scores of positive and negative cognitive-emotion strategies and the total score of quality of life as well as all of its dimensions (p < 0. 05). The results also revealed a significant difference between the groups in the mean scores of mature, immature and neurotic defense mechanisms (p < 0. 05).

The main aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between Perceived Organizational Support on the work quality of life by considering the mediating role of psychological empowerment. A descriptive-correlative method was used in this study. The statistical population of this study included contractual women teachers. They were 128 persons at the time of study. Because of the small sample size, sampling is a census method that includes all units of the community. Four questionnaires of Perceived Organizational Support (Eisenberger et al), Perceived Social Support (Zimet et al) Psychological Empowerment (Spreitzer), Work Quality of Life (Walton), were used for gathering information. The validity and reliability of questionnaires were confirmed. The Collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods (Structural Equation Modeling) using Spss18 and Amos18 softwares. Results of the analyzed data showed that there was a direct and meaningful relationship between Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Family Support with the Quality of Work Life and Psychological Empowerment. The overall conclusion also showes that Psychological Empowerment plays a mediating role in the relationship between Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Social Support (Family dimension) with Qualitative of Work Life. This means that by improving the psychological empowerment, organizational support and family support, it is possible to improve the quality of life of contractual women teachers.

Propose: The propose of this research The effect of Self efficacy, Self esteem, Spiritual well-being, Depression in regard to loneliness of girl’ s veterans of psychotropic as a mediator on life satisfaction. Methods: 350(15 to 25) girls were selected between children’ s spouses by using random sampling method and were answered to loneliness scale, Self efficacy scale, Self esteem scale, Spiritual well-being scale, depression scale and life satisfaction scale. Result: Data analysis method was structural equation modeling. The outcomes of the research show that Self efficacy and Spiritual well-being has significant and direct effect on loneliness. Also it has significant and negative indirect effect on loneliness through its impacts on life satisfaction. Depression has significant and positive direct effect on loneliness and negative indirect effect on loneliness through its impacts on life satisfaction. Self esteem has significant indirect effects on loneliness by its impacts on life satisfaction. Direct effect of life satisfaction on loneliness was negative and significant Conclusion: The model fit indices showed that the model fitted the data.

The current research aimed to examine effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on psychological well-being and cognitive distortion among adolescents of Ahvaz. The statistical population of the research included first high school female students of Ahvaz in 2016-17 among whom 30 were recruited using cluster random sampling method and were divided into treatment and control groups equally. The participants filled out the Abdolah Zadeh and Salar's Psychological Distortion Questionnaire and Ryff's Psychological Well-being Inventory. The treatment group received 10 weekly sessions of CBT intervention each lasting 90 mins but the control group received no intervention. The data were analyzed using MANCOVA and ANCOVA and the analyses were performed using SPSS-25 software. The results of MANCOVA and ANCOVA showed that CBT increased adolescents' psychological well-being in self-acceptance, independence, environmentally dominance, purposefulness in life, personal growth, and positive relationship with others areas. Also, comparison of post-test results of the treatment and the control groups revealed that CBT intervention led to decreased cognitive distortions of adolescents of Ahvaz.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of touch on depression in children. To this end, 20 girls and 20 boys aged 12-7 years were selected using cluster sampling from 20 centers under support of well-fare organization of Kerman. The research method is quasi-experimental (pre-test and post-test). After selecting the subjects, Children's Depression Scale-Parent Questionnaire (CDS-P) by Lang and Tisher (1987) was employed and Children whose marks were over 175 were selected. Then, touch intervention (patting, punching, kissing, embracing, tickling and grooming) on children was done by teachers Daily for 60 minutes. After ten weeks touch intervention, CDS-P was administered again. The results of t test are shown that touch intervention was effective (p= 001) in decreasing the depression among children and in all of the subscale of CDS-P except Miscellaneous P Items. Moreover: repeated measure ANOVA revealed that the interaction effect between touch and care duration in decreasing of depression was found significant. According to the results, it is recommended to use the touch technique to treat and reduce depression in children.