POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
Year:2018 | Volume:4 | Issue:2 (14) |Papers Count:6

Meaning in life is the basic foundation of the person's motiovation. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of logo therapy training on boredom and flourishing of female high school students. The study method was semi-experimental with pre-test-post-test and follow-up design and the control group. The study population included all second grade high school female students of two public schools in Khorramabad city area 2584 inthe academic year 2015 – 16(2584 girls). The sample sizes were 32 girls ( 16 in the experiment group and 16 in the control group) who were selected through multi-stage random cluster sampling. The research instruments were the Farmer and Sundberg Boredom Questionnaire and Diener and Biswas-Diener Flourishing Questionnaire. The results of analysis of covariance showed that logo therapy training reduced boredom and increased flourishing in the post-test that was preserved in the follow up. Based on the research results, it can be said logo therapy training reduces boredom and increases flourishing among second grade jigh school female students.

It is necessary to have qualified nurses in the system to provide quality services, only by updating the level of knowledge and improving the health of the employees and the mental health of the staff. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of positive training on social competence and health hardiness in nurses. The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and follow-up design. From nurses working in educational hospitals in Ahvaz, 30 persons were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two equal groups (each group of 15). The experimental group received 12 sessions of 90 minutes with positive training method and the control group received no training. Both groups completed Fellner social competence questionnaires and Gebhardet, Vander Doef, & Paul Health Hardness, in pretest and post-test and follow-up. Data were analyzed by repeated measurement. Findings showed that positive education significantly increased social competence and health hardiness in post-test and follow up nurses. According to the findings of this research, positive interventions can be used to improve mental health and reduce psychological problems of nurses.

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of mindfulness and acceptance training on body image concerns, mental skills and free throw shooting performance. The participants included 22 male basketball players with wheelchairs aged between 25 and 45 who were playing in the National Basketball League Second Division. The participants were homogenized by age and level of spinal cord injury and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received eight sessions (each 90 min. ) of mindfulness and acceptance training while the control group were doing their daily activities. The data were collected using OMSAT-3, Body Image Concerns Inventory and AAHPERD Basketball test and were analyzed using MANCOVA. The findings revealed that mindfulness and acceptance training fostered mental skills and free throw shooting performance of the male basketball players. Therefore, participation in mindfulness and acceptance training with the aim of fostering mental skills and basketball performance is recommended.

The rising rate of divorce in Iranian society is disconcerting. This study aimed at comparing religious commitment and forgiveness in couples on the rink of divorce and normal couples. The research method is descriptive and causal-comparative. To select the group of couples on the brink of divorce, firstly, the researcher referred to counseling units of the courts and law offices of various cities of the Guilan province. The cases of the couples who were qualified to enter the study were reviewed and of these cases 173 were selected based on availability. Then, 143 normal couples referring to the courts and offices of lawyers which the cause of their resort is nothing but the completions of the divorce case were selected through purposive sampling. They responded to Glock and Stark's Religious Commitment questionnaire, and Ray and et al Forgiveness scale. Obtained data were analyzed by Pearson Chi-squares, independent t-test, multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed that the mean of forgiveness and religious Commitment in couples on the brink of divorce and normal couples significantly different, that is, couples on the brink of divorce have less level of forgiveness than normal couples and in terms of faithfulness and ritual religious commitment, they scored less scores than normal couples. The remarkable difference between the two groups has important marital therapy implications for implementation of forgiveness-oriented intervention and also promotion of religious beliefs and ritual among couples in order to maintain and strengthen the marriage contract.

The purpose of this study was to extract career adaptability profiles of students and predict their membership based on adaptability's indicators including career optimism, proactive personality and core self-evaluations. This study was a basic quantitative and a kind of correlational andantecedent one. A sample size of 700 students were selected through size proportional stratified sampling method. The Savickas and Porfeli's Career Adaptability Scale, Seibert, Crant and Kraimer's Proactive Personality Scale, Judge, Erez, Bono and Thoresen's Core Self-evaluation Scale and Rottinghaus, Day and Borgen's Career Optimism Scale were used to collect the data. Results showed that there is distinct quantitative adaptability profiles namely very low, low, average, and high. In addition, a distinct qualitative profile was extracted which was named disconfidence with high levels of concern, control and curiosity and a low level of confidence. Also, the results showed that distinct adaptability profiles differed significantly in their levels of adaptivity so that increasing the levels of adaptivity, in terms of its three indicators, predicts the likelihood of membership in higher levels of adaptability profiles. However, differently, in the disconfidence profile, increasing of the core self-evaluation predicts the likelihood of subscribing to the profile named high. Finally part of the model of adaptation was supported. Overall, the results showed that there are different adaptability profiles among students. Moreover, different levels of adaptivity in terms of career optimism, proactive personality and core self-evaluation, predict the individual's membership in different profiles.

The main objective of this study was to investigate the role of mediatory factors of personality traits, hope and forgiveness in marital satisfaction of couples on the verge of divorce. The methodology used in this study was correlation method and the statistical sample included married couples on the verge of divorce in Mashhad, Iran, which 180 couples from counseling centers were selected in random. For data collection purpose, four questionnaires were used, including Five Factor Model of NEO Personality Inventory Revised (60-question form), Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale (47-question form), Family Forgiveness Scale, by Pollard et al. and Schneider’ s Hope scale (1991). Data analysis was performed by applying the statistical method of analysis with recursive models. Results confirmed the desired evaluation of the investigation model. They also revealed that sense of duty has a positive and significant effect and neuroticism has a negative and significant impact on the marital satisfaction. Also, hope and forgiveness have mediatory roles in this relationship. Moreover, results showed the positive and significant effect of experientialism on the marital satisfaction but hope and forgiveness, as personality traits, have no mediatory roles in this relation. therefore consequence, neuroticism and sense of duty have effect on the marital satisfaction through hope and forgiveness, as personality traits. each of three variables including personality traits, hope and forgiveness can result in increasing the marital satisfaction of married couples on the verge of divorce.