Journal of Psychology
Year:2019 | Volume:23 | Issue:3 (91) |Papers Count:9

The purpose of the present study was conceptualizing college students' Academic identity and identifying the components of it as one of the specific types of the identity, considering the socio-cultural structure and the context of higher education in Iranian society. To achieve this goal, a qualitative research method was used. Participants included 56 individuals (25 male students and 31 female students) who were studying in the fourth to sixth semesters of Ardakan University and sixth to eighth grade M. D. in medical and dentistry at the medical University of Shahid Sadoughi in Yazd. Focus groups were used for collecting data. In two universities, five focus groups were formed. The results of the theoretical coding showed that students' identity was composed of five components: academic commitment, academic self-Concept, future thinking, belonging to university and personal agency, influenced by factors such as basic psychological needs and leads to Numerous concequences such as change in academic self-efficacy and subjective well-being.

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation of attention and memory (ARAM) on phonological working memory span and expressive and receptive language development in cochlear implant deaf children. This study was a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a one momnth follow-up. Participants were 16 cochlear implanted children aged 6 to 8/9 years in exceptional elementary schools of Ahwaz in 2018-2019 school year that were selected with an available sampling method and randomly placed in the experimental and control groups. Each group included 8 persons and both groups were evaluated by Wechsler Memory Scale subtest and Told-p: 3 (Persian version) in the same condition. The experimental group received 8 sessions and each session lasted for 45 minutes each month. The control group did not received any training. Both groups were evaluated again at the end of intervention and 1 month later. Data was analyzed with mixed analysis of variance (2×3). Phonological working memory span and expressive and receptive language development scores of children who received the ARAM was improved significantly compared with those who did not received it.

In the present study, the mediating role of self-compassion in the relationship between perfectionism and eudaimonic well-being was investigated. To do so, 210 Master students from Shiraz University were selected through multistage random cluster sampling method. Participants answered to Almost-Perfect-Scale-Revised, (Slaney et al, 2001), Self-Compassion Scale (Neff, 2003), and Eudaimonic Well-being Scale (Waterman et al, 2010). Data were analyzed using path analysis through Amos software. Results showed that standard component (as adaptive perfectionism) has a positive effect, and discrepancy component (as maladaptive perfectionism) has a negative effect on eudaimonic well-being. Self-compassion showed a mediating role in the relationship between discrepancy component of perfectionism and eudaimonic well-being. In the base of these results, self-compassion can be considered as a buffer against the negative impact of maladaptive perfectionism on eudaimonic well-being.

The purpose of this study was to present a conceptual model and test it for communication skills based on anger rumination and alexithymia. The method of this study was descriptive and the population of this study included all students of the Hamedan in the academic year 1397-1398, among these students, 270 subjects were selected through an accessible sampling method. The research tools included Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, Communication Skills Scale, and Anger Rumination Scale. The relationships between variables were examined by the structural equation modeling. Results showed that the alexithymia had a direct correlation with anger rumination and communication skills dissatisfaction and has indirect relationship with communication skills through anger rumination. Anger rumination also had a direct relation with communication skills. In general, communication skills were influenced by emotions in relationships. There was a negative correlation with the anger rumination and alexithymia and these variables can have a role in reducing the amount of communication skills of individuals by affecting interpersonal interactions.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the new scale of the Dark tetrad scale. The research method was survey and the statistical population consisted of all students who educated at Mohaghegh Ardabili University during 2017-2018. A sample of 600 individuals (300 females and 300 male) were selected through a multistage cluster sampling method. Data from 30 individuals were excluded due to a defect in completing the questionnaire. To collect data, Assessment Sadistic Personality Scale (Plouffe et al., 2017), Dark Triad Scale (JoneS & Paulhus, 2014), Emotional Intelligence Test (Bradbury-Graves, 2005) and Short Form of the NEO Questionnaire (Costa, McCray, 1989) were used. In order to examine the reliability of the questionnaire, the internal consistency coefficient was used and also the validity of the questionnaire was assessed by divergent validity, exploratory factor analysis and first-order confirmatory factor analysis. All analysis was done using SPSS-25 and LISREL 8. 8. The results of the internal consistency coefficient showed that this scale had the appropriate reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient for Machiavellianism was 0. 82, narcissism 0. 86, psychopathy 0. 79 and sadism 0. 77). Confirmatory Factor Fitness Indexes also show the appropriate validity of the scale (CFI = 0. 95, RFI = 0. 96, NNFI = 0. 93, RMSEA = 0/060). Therefore, it can be said that this scale is an appropriate instrument for measuring the dark aspects of personality.

The present research was performed with the purpose of examination the role of workplace spirituality and resilience in predicting the psychological wellbeing of employees. The research had a correlational design on the type of predictive study. The population was all of the employees of Markazi Province Electeric Distribution Company in years of 2015-16, that 396 persons of them were selected by stratified random sampling based on their job conditions, and were examined. For collecting the data, the Workplace Spirituality Scale, Resilience Scale and Psychological Well-being Scale, were performed, and the acquired data were analyzed by pearson correlation coefficient and simultaneous multiple regression. The findings indicated that the workplace spirituality and resilience with a direct and significant relationship, explained about 14 percent of variance of psychological well-being of employees that in this context resilience had significant proportion in predicting of psychological wellbeing and its, factors, but the workplace spirituality had significant proportion only in predicting the factor of self-acceptance. As a result, it can be said that workplace spirituality and resilience have a significant role in psychological well-being.

The purpose of present study was to investigate the concept of academic passion in math among adolescence. Therefore, this investigation attempts to study conceptualization of academic passion in math from the perspective of adolescents with a qualitative method, interviews with focus group, and grounded theory approach. Participants in this study were 51 adolescents (24 girls and 27 boys). Three focus group were composed in female student’ s school, and four groups were constituted in male student’ s schools. The results regarding student’ s academic passion in math were categorized in four categories of “ intent to engage in the activity” , “ positive emotions” , “ future perspective and identification with activity” and “ need for cognition” . Also the results were related to factors affecting academic passion in math categorized in three categories of “ family” , “ teacher” and “ individual features” and finally results were related to consequences of academic passion in math categorized in 5 group “ resiliency” , “ hope” , “ information processing styles” , “ self-efficacy” , “ subjective well-being” .