THE WOMEN AND FAMILY CULTURAL EDUCATION
Year:2017 | Volume:12 | Issue:39 |Papers Count:6

This study is aimed at investigating the effect of the asma-hosna counseling model on improving married women’s God image. This is a quasi-experimental research work with a pretest-posttest, control group design. The population comprised of all the mothers aged 25 to 48 whose daughters were studying at high school in Tehran during the academic year 2017-2018 academic year. The statistical sample included 30 subjects selected through the purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. The experimental group received 10 sessions of treatment based on the asma-hosna counseling model. The content of the training sessions was based on the available resources related to asma-hosna and the famous hadith from the Prophet, in which 99 Divine names have been mentioned. The research instrument was the God Image Scale (GIS) completed by both groups. At the end, the results obtained from the 2 groups were compared using multivariate covariance analysis. The results showed that the mean of the scores of the experimental group on the God Image Scale and its six main sub-scales, including the impressibility, Divine providence, presence, challenge, acceptance, and benevolence, significantly increased (p<0.005) at the posttest stage. Given the findings of this research work, it can be said that the asma-hosna counseling model improves God image among women, and this model can be utilized by professionals as an attached part to psychotherapeutic interventions.

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the structural relationship between subjective well-being based on psychological hardiness and mediation of emotion regulation among women suffering from breast cancer. This is an applied research work which is based on the descriptive-correlational method and conducted through structural equations. The statistical population includes all the women suffering from breast cancer, who had referred to hospitals in Tehran. A sample of 100 subjects was selected through the purposive sampling method. The research instruments were the Subjective Well-Being Questionnaire of Keyes and Magyar-Moe, the Psychological Hardiness Questionnaire of Ahvaz and the Emotion Structure Regulation Questionnaire of Garnefski. The data were analyzed using the partial least squares method and the results revealed that the research model had suitable validity, reliability and quality. This model could explain 50 percent of subjective well-being variance among women suffering from breast cancer and the structural relations were significant. Overall, this model can be used to control psychological problems and prevent their aggravation among women suffering from breast cancer.

This research work has been conducted to evaluate the impact of meta-emotion-based couple therapy on marital adjustment and marital burnout among couples having marital conflict. This is an experimental study with pretest-posttest and a control group. The research population included all the couples referring to the counseling centers, family courts and the Dispute Resolution Council of Tabriz Judiciary during the autumn of 2016. A sample of 16 couples (n=32) was selected from among all the couples who were eligible to enter the study using the simple random sampling method. The subjects were assigned into the experimental and control groups. Then, the experimental group received 8 ninety-minute sessions of meta-emotion-based couple therapy. The data analysis was performed using multivariate analysis of covariance by means of SPSS. The results showed that meta-emotion-based couple therapy (Guttmann approach) results in a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in marital adjustment variable and the components of marital boredom including physical exhaustion, emotional exhaustion, and mental exhaustion. Considering the results, meta-emotion-based couple therapy boosts marital adjustment by increasing the levels of positive interaction cycle, replacing affiliation with hostility and compulsive behaviors and replacing destructive behavior with constructive behavior, and it mitigates marital burnout by reducing the range of destructive behaviors such as criticism, contempt and defensiveness in conflicting couples.

As a complex social phenomenon, delinquency which is widely rampant in varied societies is accompanied by numerous individual, familial and social damages. The identification of the factors that pave the way for adolescents’ inclination towards delinquency plays a significant part in devising preventive, therapeutic measures aimed at curbing such a tendency. Hence, the present study has been conducted to investigate the roles of family functions and moral intelligence in adolescents’ proclivity towards delinquency. This is a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population comprised of all the state high school male students in the academic year 2015-2016 in Esfahan. A sample of 426 students was selected to participate in the study using the random sampling method. The research data were collected using the Moral Intelligence Questionnaire (Lennick and Kiel, 2005), the Family Assessment Device (Bishop, Baldwin and Epstein, 1983), and the Attitude towards Delinquency Questionnaire constructed by the researcher (2016). The collected data were analyzed using SPSS and hierarchical regression. The findings revealed that there is a negative meaningful relationship between all the components of family dysfunction and adolescents’ proclivity towards delinquency. The results, moreover, demonstrated a negative relationship between all the components of moral intelligence and adolescents’ tendency towards delinquency (p>0.05). The results of the study suggest that family function and the individuals’ moral intelligence can fairly predict proclivity towards delinquency. Thus, they can be employed to formulate precautionary therapeutic measures in the field of adolescents’ proclivity to delinquency.

The aim of this study is the construction, standardization and identification of the underlying factors of the Emotional Divorce Questionnaire. The population of the study included all the ordinary men and women seeking divorce in Boushehr province, Iran. The sample consisted of 1312 subjects.1001 people were in the normal group and 311 people constituted the divorce-seeking group.501 questionnaires were analyzed for exploratory factor analysis, and 500 questionnaires were analyzed for confirmatory factor analysis. The sample was selected using the availability sampling method. The data analysis methods included correlation, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and multivariate analysis of variance. The instruments were the Enrich Fowers, the Olson et al. Questionnaire (1989), the Desire to Divorce Questionnaire by Roosevelt et al. (1986), and the Marriage Instability Questionnaire by Edwards et al. (1987). The results of the exploratory factor analysis identified 9 factors as the main factors of emotional divorce. The correlation between the newly-developed questionnaire and the Desire to Divorce Questionnaire (0.59, P<0.001) and the Instability of Marriage Questionnaire (0.62, P<0.001) is indicative of its concurrent validity. Also the discriminate validity of this questionnaire was worked out against the Enrich Fowers, the Olson et al. Questionnaire, which indicated its appropriate validity. Cronbach's alpha for all the questions was 0.95. Given its appropriate psychometric properties, this questionnaire can be considered a useful instrument for assessing the emotional divorce among men and women, which may lay the ground for closer inspections in related fields.

This study addresses the macro-strategy of "the general policies of the family system" in Iran. These policies were drafted following the formulation of the constitution and the vision plan, and for this reason the orientations of these two grand documents have been maintained in these policies. Researchers believe that the analysis of the overall policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the family sector reflects the gist of its principles and approaches on women and the family. The main question of the current research is: What are the main themes of family-wide policies, and what kind of network model do they generally depict? To answer this qualitative-approach question, the two theme-analysis and interpretive structural modeling strategies were sequentially used. The results indicate that the themes of these policies are at three structural levels. The first level of this model deals with the ultimate goals of these policies, i.e. consolidation of the Islamic family. The second level explains the cultural approach, and finally the third level explains the underlying factors governing the model.