JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS AND METHODS
Year:2011 | Volume:1 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

The aim of this research was to explore several environmental psychology features among dormitory students and their relationships with sexuality, academic levels and types of dormitories.Method: The sample consists of students in different majors and academic levels living in eight different fraternities and sororities of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The instrument for gathering data was a questioner which consisted questions about their satisfaction of their present dormitories.Results: The results reveal that there is a meaningful relationship between environmental psychology features and sexuality, academic levels and types of dormitories. In summary as a conclusion, sexuality, academic levels and types of dormitories are the three main elements that must necessarily be considered in designing dormitories. These elements would be effective on a number of students’ psychological characteristics such as crowding, personal space, control and territorial behavior.Conclusion: The study also recommends ideas for further improvement of designing dormitories.

Aim: The purpose of this research was to anticipate mental health and performance job based on personality characteristic of elementary school’s teachers.Method: the sample of the study was 170 elementary teachers school. Data via 3 questionnaires contain mental health (GHQ), Paterson’s job’s performance and Neo personality characteristic collected and analyzed.Results: The result of statistical analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between mental health and teacher’s performance and personality character. Analyzing data via multiple regression revealed that extroversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness could predict mental health and job performance.Conclusion: Meanwhile necessity of attention to personality characteristic especial in teachers for improves teaching is important.

Aim: This study has done to show the relation between metacognitive strategies with aggression and coping styles in Shiraz high school students.Methods: In this study, 360 individuals of Shiraz high school students between the ages 17-19 (240 females, 120 males) in 88-89 school year, were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling. Data collection was done with Metacognition Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30) by Cartwright Hatton & wells (2004), Aggression Questionnaire (AQ), and Coping Styles Questionnaire (CSQ).Statistic data were analyzed by the use of Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test for independent groups and multiple regression analysis.Results: Analysis showed that between metacognitive strategies and aggression, as well as between metacognitive strategies and ways of coping with stress in P<0.01, there is a significant relationship. In addition, among males and females, aggression at level p<0.001 and using coping styles at the level p<0.05 was a significant difference. It should be noted, cognitive confidence was a strong and significant predictor for aggression at p<0.001.Conclusion: The results showed that applying metacognitive strategies from high school youth have effects on behavioral disorders such as aggression, but it can help them use appropriate coping styles in different situations.

Aim: The purpose of this research was impact of cognitive therapy on decreasing depression, and increasing marital satisfaction in couples referring to family counseling, and crisis center of Ahvaz Fiazbakhse.Method: Participations of these study 20 couples were consisted that of between referring of counseling and crisis center Ahvaz Fiazbakhse randomly were selected. The participants randomly were assigned in experimental and control groups. The period of cognitive treatment was eight sessions.Results: Findings showed that there are significant different between couples under cognitive treatment (experimental group) and non-treatment (control group) about decrease of depression symptoms, increase of marital satisfaction.Conclusion: According to findings obtained can be mentioned that CT to affect couples depression, and marital satisfaction (primary variable decrease, and secondary increase).

Aim: The purpose of this research was to explore whether the adolescents’ evaluation on her/his family content and family process are more likely to be associated with her or his anxiety, stress and depression.Method: The work was conducted on a sample of 200 adolescents ranging in age from 15 to 17 years who completed measures of Family Content, Family Process, and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale.Results: The results identified family dimensions as two significant predictors for adolescents’ anxiety but, none of them had the enough ability to predict the rate of stress. Also this data showed that the family process was the only significant predictor for adolescents’ anxiety.Conclusion: Finally, among the family process and content subscales, just decision making, time for being together, and educational facilities were salient in this research

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the way that family communication pattern and conflict style relating to each other.Method: The participants included 206 university students from Shahid Beheshti University. In order to get data, Ritchie Revised Family Communication Pattern (RFCP) and Rahim’s Organization conflict inventory were used. Data were investigated by canonical correlation method in SPSS 16.Results: The results showed that in relation with father, the boys with high conversation used integrating and obliging methods, while the girls used Integrating and Compromising. Also the boys with high conformity used compromising, Avoiding and dominating methods, while the girls with high conformity used dominating and obliging methods. In relation with mother, the boys and the girls with high conversation used Integrating methods, while the boys with high conformity used obliging and dominating methods and the girls used avoiding obliging and dominating methods.Conclusion: In overall it seems conversation always come with useful Integrating method, but most of the time conformity predict using useless methods such as Dominating and Avoiding.

Aim: The aim of the study was to check the effectiveness of the executive function training on child ACID profile in students with learning disability.Method: An experimental method with pre-test and post-test has been used to clarify the effect. Based on Stratify sampling, 48 students has been selected on two groups of Experimental and control group. To measure ACID Profile score in the pretest Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children-Revised (WISC- R) has been used respectively. The executive function in a group training method was used for teaching the experimental group. After the training, posttest was run.Results: the results of the ANCOVA test demonstrated that the training of the executive functions increases the function three items of four subtests (Arithmetic, Coding and Information) as Wechsler ACID profile of children with learning disability.Conclusion: Although training of executive functions has no effect in Digit span subtest.

To review the history of the theories of counseling and psychotherapy, shows us that in order to construct a theory, five fundamental steps are necessary. First, forming the philosophical pre-assumptions include ontology, humanology and epistemology. The second one is looking for the roots of abnormalities and psychological disorders. The third one is decision about the main aim of counseling and psychotherapy. The fourth one is to explain the method of therapy, means, strategies and techniques of therapy. At last, the fifth phase is to research and studies on the theory. The first three steps are almost theatrical affairs and the others are practical. According to the first three steps, the question of this paper is: can we construct a psychotherapy and counseling theory based on Islamic mysticism? Deductive method is used in this paper for answering the question. The results of the paper show us that based on the philosophical foundations of Islamic mysticism and the role of the Director (Morshed) in the spiritual journey (seir-o-solook), we can design a new model for psychotherapy and consoling