JOURNLA OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHES
Year:2012 | Volume:4 | Issue:15|Papers Count:8

The purpose of current research was studying and comparing of self-efficacy, and self-regulation among opioid substance, stimulant substance dependents, and general persons. Research design was non-experimental (causal comparative method). This research performed on 214 persons (106 general persons, 70 opioid substance dependents, and 38 stimulant substances dependents). Substance dependents were chosen from MMT centers. The self-efficacy questionnaire (Sherer et al, 1998) and The self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ; (Brown, Miller, & Lawendowski, 1999) were administrated for collecting data The results showed that there was a significant difference among opioid substance, stimulant substance dependents, and general persons in self-efficacy and self-regulation. Opioid substance dependents have less self-efficacy and self-regulation scores than General persons and stimulant substance dependents. In self-efficacy and self-regulation, there was not significant deference between stimulant substance dependents and general persons. Also, the results showed that there was a significant and positive relationship among self-esteem, selfefficacy, and self-regulation. So, we conclude that self-efficacy, and self-regulation has important role in preventing, coping, and substance abstinence.

250 of police officers have been randomely selected to be studied using NEOTEST in order to explor the relationship between the personal characteristics and efficiency of police. regression of the results show that the predictive variable of personality characteristics is effective in predicting police efficiency. The results of the study shows that there is not a significant relationship between neuroticism and police efficiency. Also there wasnot a signification relationship between extroversion, agree ableness and responsibility and police efficiency. But there is a signification relationship between flexibility and police efficiency. We can say cleary that in personality characters if the job be more compatible with individual characters his effectiveness and satisfaction will increase. This findings show the importance of personal differences as well as occupational positive attitudws. Consequently compatibility of the individuals character with his gob through proper recruitment will bring fruitful consequences in fact better job functions can be observed. Each person with specific responsibility will bring his specific characters to work. There are many influencial factors on job satisfaction and efficiency among them are the amount of payment and job nature which cannot be ignored.

The purpose of this research was considering practicality, reliability and validity of oxford happiness’s revised test among a sample of 468 students. Volunteers were selected by multistage sampling method. oxford happiness's test scale which is made of 67 item and is scoring based on Likert’s 4 point spectrum (fully agree to fully disagree) was administrated on the sample. The reliability coefficient of Alpha cronbach was equal to 0.947. In order to determine inventory validity the principle component analysis was used. Results showed these factors determine 49.844 percent of the total variance of variables. These factors are as follows: Life satisfaction, humor, optimism, pleasure, euphoria, self- monitoring and self-control, affiliation, spirit of commitment and cooperation, mental preparation and positivism.

The current research is intended to study efficiently educating ethics by animation for promoting ethics of preschool students. The participants included all preschool students of district 2 Tehran in 2010-2011. The sample involved 30 preschool students, 15 of whom were randomly selected for experimental group and 15 of them were selected for control group. Sampling process was done by accessibility method. To analysis was used. The findings indicated that teaching ethics by animation could promote preschool students knowledge on ethic concepts respect, tell the trust, kindness, morality, Empathy. If seems that respect was the most influenced concept.

The aim of this study was comparison the ability of gifted and normal high school students based on classical test theory and item-response theory. Two subsets of high school students, gifted (N=435, 220 boys and 215 girls), and normal students (N=449, 226 boys and 223 girls), ranging in age from 15 to 17, were tested by Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) (Cattell, 1971), scale 3 (form A). The homogeneity reliability coefficients for gifted and normal students were 0.783 and 0.683 respectively, using Cronbach's alpha. Statistical testing showed that: 1) the mean of the gifted students on fluid intelligence was significantly higher than that of the normal students, 2) the correlation between raw scores and abilities for the gifted and normal students were 0.467 and 0.186 respectively, both of these coefficients and the difference of them were statistically significant, 3) comparison the abilities of the two groups based on IRT model showed that the abilities of gifted students on 80th percentile and above are higher than that of normal students, the abilities of normal students on 20th percentile and lower than this percentile are lower than that of gifted students, and the abilities of the two groups between the percentiles are are identical.

The present research aimed to investigate the relationship between creativity and mental health in talented and normal students.400 high school students were chosen by multi stages sampling method and they were given Abedy creativity and S.C.L 90 R tests. The results showed a significant difference in creativity and mental health between normal and talented students. But the results on mental health showed a significant difference only between girl and boy students.

This study has been investigated the effectiveness of mindfullness-based stress to reduce dysfunctional attitudes and depression in heart patients. Research goal is help reduce depression and dysfunctional attitudes in patients with cardiac disease that leads to Improvement their disease. This research is Of Quasi-experimental research with the pre-test, post-test with expectations and using random assignment. The study of sample comprised of 60 patients that by using available sample of heart patients city of Sari in Mazandaran province's hospitals (Hazrat Zahra (30) and shafa (30)) and was divided randomly into two experimental groups (30) and the waiting list (30). Data collection tool was Beck Depression Inventory and DAS-26, and was used 12-SPSS software to achieve the results of the tests and was used analysis of variance with repeated measurements and t-test for independent groups. The results indicated that MBSR is effective in reducing depression and dysfunctional attitudes in heart disease and also did not see the point significant differences between women and men. It seems to mindfulness-based stress will be effective by "training of Attention control" and the changes will dysfunctional attitude and to prevent of recurrences.