JOURNAL OF WOMAN AND FAMILY STUDIES
Year:2020 | Volume:7 | Issue:3 (15)|Papers Count:7

Women's studies degree has been established in Iran as a master degree in 1380, after ten years Ph. d program was approved. The ups and downs of academic process of women's studies was required to examine its scientific status. In this regard, this paper attempts to discover the challenges and approaches of women's studies by a qualitative method and interviewing twenty experts. At next step, we analyze the data through content analysis techniques and coding all interviews. Our findings indicate that some of the challenges are as follow: unstructured academic discipline, curriculum problems and defects, non-expert and inefficient reviews, lack of qualified professors, incorrect admission, lack of scientific expertise and graduates' efficiency, lack of suitable jobs for graduates, opposite Approaches, lack of theorizing, dissemination of university-government interaction in women's studies, the inefficiency of the field in providing solutions for women's issues and its full impact from politics. The experts had some suggestions on approaches and solutions, some of them are: Specialized review of the curriculum, improve the academic structure of discipline, experienced professors, systematic admission process, interaction between university and effective institutions on women's issues and link between different intellectual schools in women studies.

Distress in couple relationships is one of the most common stressful factors in the recent decades that have considerable negative impacts on the biological, psychological and social health of couples and their children. The aim of this study was to compare examine the comparison of the effectiveness of solution-focused narrative couple therapy and brief self-regulation couple therapy on vitality and affection control of distressed couples. This quasi-experimental study was of pretest-posttest control group design. The statistical population consisted of clients of Kimia, Besharat, Tamasha, and Tohid centers in Isfahan city, which where they were referred to these centers due to communication and marital problems in 1396. From among them, 24 couples (48 persons) were selected through convenience sampling method. Then eight couples were randomly assigned to three groups and the couples in experimental groups weekly participated in separate interventions of solution focused-narrative couple therapy (8weeks) and brief self-regulation couple therapy (8 weeks). The subjects' participants’ data were collected by the Affective Control Scale of Williams & Chambles (1997) and Vitality Scale of Deci & Ryan (1997). The results from multivariable analyze of covariance indicated that the differences among the groups were significant. The results of post hoc test Bonferroni showed that there is not isn’ t a significant difference between solution-focused narrative couple therapy and brief self-regulation couple therapy groups in terms of increase inof vitality and affection control of couples as well as its subscales (anger, positive affect, depressed mood and anxiety). The findings of the study indicate that both solution-focused narrative couple therapy and the brief self-regulation couple therapy were effective in increasing of vitality and affection control of distressed couples.

The purpose of this review study is to compare the differential effectiveness of the positive couple therapy and the integrative behavioral couple therapy on marital adjustment. This was a semi-quasi-experimental study with pretest, post-test, follow-up assessments, and a control group design. The statistical population included all couples referring to counseling centers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in during the year 1396. A sum of 30 couples (60 individuals) were selected using convenience sampling method considering inclusion criteria; they were then randomly assigned into experimentals (N = 40) and control (N = 20) groups. The data were collected via research tools were Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) questionnaire. Data were analyzed using analysis of through covariance. The findings showed that both methods of couple therapy had been effective on marital adjustment and also in as well as the follow-up phase. The results showed that in the post-test and follow up stages, there were no significant differences between the effects of these two therapeutic methods in marital adjustment. Therefore, considering the effectiveness of both positive couple therapy and integrated behavioral couple therapy, these two methods can be used to improve marital adjustment of couples. However, due to the lack scarceness of research on positive couple therapy and theits novelty of this method, more research is needed to be done this topic on this issue.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between family communication patterns, parental religiosity, and tendency to cognitive critical thinking in children. The statistical population was chosen by convenience sampling method from of girls who were the first and second grade girls was high school students in the city of Qom. The sample included 447 students whose fields of study were humanities, mathematics, and scinces, which were selected by available sampling method. The research method is descriptive and correlation is the relationship between the variables in this study. in terms of the relationship between variables is a correlation type. For collecting data, the Parental Religious Questionnaire (Grankvist 1998), Family Communication Patterns (Richie Fitzpatrick, 1990), Critical Thinking (Rickets, 2003), and Religious Humor (Lotf Abadi, 2002) were utilized used. Pearson correlation analysis and stepwise regression were used run to analyze the data. The results showed that the variables of parenting religiosity, the dimension of creativity from critical thinking and conservation orientation have the potential of predicting the religious identity of adolescence. Other variables include the dimension of perfection and commitment of the critical thinking, variable and the dimension of the alignment orientation were not inserted entered into the equation.

The aim of current study was to predict predicting emotional divorce based on decision-making styles and power structure of in the family among employed women of the in Shahrood city. In this descriptivecorrelational study, all employed women in Shahrood city were considered as statistical population and from among them 384 people were considered as statistical sample using Morgan table and also available convenience sampling. Data were collected using standard questionnaires of decision-making styles of Scott and Bruce Inventory, Power Structure of Mahdavi and Khosroshahi Inventory, as well as Gottman's Emotional Divorce Inventory. After collecting questionnaires, data was analyzed using by regression tests. The results of this study showed that the decision-making styles and power structure of the family explain 41 percent of variance. Spontaneousness, Avoidance, and intuitive decision-making styles have positive and significant role in predicting emotional divorce and while rational and dependent decision-making style did not show any effect. In addition, the outcomes findings revealed that building power relations the sturcure of power relations along with the domains and scope of power exercising have significant role in predicting emotional divorce andwhile method of exercising power exercising did not. So As decision-making styles and power structres in families can predict the emotional divorce, the reduction of emotional divorce among employed women in Shahrood can be achieved by educating them on decision-making styles and improvement of power structure in families. with training decision-making styles and improvement structure of the family can help reducing emotional divorce among employed women in Shahrood city.

One of the topics covered by the social sciences think tanks is the agency and the axial role and function of women at the level of families, groups and organizations. Agency is a multifunctional instrument construct which encompasses the growth of three areas, including economic conditions and other decisions about the family, especially men, the freedom of movement in public spaces, and the expression of individual views about the equality of roles towards men. Despite broad assumptions about the empowerment and empowerment agency of women in Iran, sociological research is limited regarding to these structures constrcuts. The purpose of this study was to identify factors related to the agency of women in the community with emphasis on the city of Kermanshah. This study was conducted by survey method and a researcher-made questionnaire on 400 married women in Kermanshah. Considering the ensurance of the issues of reliability, valididty, and data analysis in the contecxt of this work, the Cronbach’ s alpha, face validity, and the means of comparison tests and correlation efficients were utilized respectively. Moreover, to test the experimental model, multiple regressions were run used. The results show that variables such as age (r = 0. 26), self-esteem (r = 0. 177), mass media use (0. 33) = r), place of birth (f = 512. 5), attitude toward childbirth (r =-0. 25), and relative deprivation (R =-0. 19) has a significant effect on women's agency. It should be noted that women's empowerment agency can lead to their empowerment, the amount their degree of power, and their choice of a suitable lifestyle, and increase of their cultural capital of women in society.

Breast cancer stands as the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women. Mammography screening can improve prevention and early detection of breast cancer. The increasing of rates of mammography screening includes different variables. So In the same vein, this article aimed at changing attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral Control, and mammography self-efficacy construct in order to increase intention and behavior of screening mammogram by an educational intervention in women. Among the women referred to the health centers of 1 and 2 areas in Arak, 300 women (40 – 60 years old) answered Mammography Self-Efficacy Scale and planned behavior theory questioner. Then 30 women were selected and divided into two groups of experimental and control. Experimental group received 3 sessions of training (60 minute in per session). Then post test had been conducted for two groups and participants were followed up for mammography in two months. After the intervention, significant changes were detected in the intervention group in mammography self-efficacy, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, intention and behavior of mammography during the time. and Moreover, experimental group compared to the control group showed significant difference in the scores of variables. Altogether, researchers may want to can include self-efficacy mammography in addition to the TPB and other demographic characteristics in future applications to improve health behavior.