Journal of Psychology
Year:2018 | Volume:22 | Issue:1 (85) |Papers Count:10

This study investigated the effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment (ACT) compared with cognitive-behavior therapy on decreasing anxiety and increasing acceptance of mothers of autistic children. This study was quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test with control group. The experimental groups were consisted of two groups based on acceptance and commitment group therapy (ACT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) respectively. Both groups were received ten sessions treatment. 12 people were employed in the control group who were not treated. In order to evaluate the level of anxiety and acceptance, two questionnaires were used: Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II). Comparing treatment groups showed that between the effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment with cognitive behavioral therapy on reducing maternal anxiety and promoting acceptance was not significantly different. However, the impact of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment in pre-test and follow-up was more than cognitive behavior therapy. Therefore, the current research and ACT provide empirical support for mothers with ASD children.

The purpose of this study was to compare selected flow state experience (peak performance) in elite and non-elite Iranian athletic. This study examined relationships between peak performance, and flow state. The flow-feeling theory helps in understanding the reason people do activities in maximum (peak performance)and extremely motivated state. The elite sample included 55 and non-elite 50 females and males (with 23. 5 in average) athletic. They were interviewed and questioned, Flow State Scale-2-Chen, Hung (DFS_2) was used for data collection. The t-test revealed a significant difference between elite and non-elite athletic in 4 factor, and totale flow state, and five others. Some results indicate to there can be a state of flow on the athletic. However, elite athletic were better than non-elite athletic in all catagorys. According to the results of this study, it is recommended that elite athletic.

This study aimed to investigate the role of the fear of evaluation, in the performance of managers in strategic effectiveness process. In addition the relationship between role breadth and organizational structure with the strategic effectiveness with regard to the role of mediators(fear of evaluation). The data from the expanded form of the Professional Analysis Questionnaire(PMPQ) McCormick, Fear of Assessment, Organizational Structure Questionnaire, Chen and Huang, and Researcher-Made Questionnaire the process of strategic effectiveness, were administered on sixty one managers selected randomly. The results showed significant relation between organizational structure and the role breadth and fear of evaluation is mediate between role breadth and organizational structure with the strategic effectiveness. We suggested based on this result, that we need to considered some situation for release the pressure of evaluation, especially for the people who had a job with high role breadth and formal structure.

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy based on job performance of Khoramshahr port personnel. All 340 personnel of the Khoramshhar port were considered as target population of the study. Simple random sampling technique was used in this study. The research studied consisted of 181 personnel using both Cokaran and Krejcie and Morgan table to determine sample size. To collect data the participants were asked to answer three different questionaire including Bradberry and Greaves Emotional Intelligence, Riggs and Knights’ Self-Efficacy as well as Paterson’ s Job Performance Questionnaire forms. Pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis and Analysis of variance were used to calculate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy as and job performance as. SPSS was used to perform the data analysis and for hypothesis testing. The result indicated that there was no relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance of the khormashahr port personnel. However there was a positive relationship between self-efficacy and job performance among the personnel. In other words self-efficacy had an important role in job performance. The study further revealed that emotional intelligence plays an important role on self-efficacy variable so that they affect each other.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of emotion regulation strategies of Cognitive appraisal and emotional suppression on emotional memory and executive functions Based on sensory processing sensitivity. Five hundred students were selected. 45 of them, based on score in Sensory Processing Sensitivity Scale were selected and participants were studied in Executive functions and Emotional Memory Assessment under normal viewing conditions, cognitive appraisal and emotional suppression. Data were analyzed by using multivariate analysis of covariance, univariate and post hoc tests. The results showed that significant differences between three groups in the executive functions and emotional memory. Group with high sensory processing sensitivity (HSP) in cognitive appraisal gained higher scores in most components of executive function and emotional memory. Suppression led to the group of high sensory processing sensitivity (HSP) achieved a lower score in executive function and emotional memory. Cognitive appraisal can interact with sensory processing sensitivity and lead to an increase performance in executive function and emotional memory.

The purpose of this study was to investigate mediating role of coping with stress styles in the relationship between creative thinking and psychological well-being. Population included 410 students Tehran university students who were selected as sample by using multi-stage cluster sampling method. Research method was descriptive and co-relational. The data collection tools were Ryff Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire (1989), Andler and Parker Coping with Stress Styles Questionnaire (1990) and Torrance Creative Thinking Questionnaire(1979). The results showed that creative thinking had a direct and positive impact on psychological well-being. Creative thinking with the help of mediating role of Problem-oriented and emotional-oriented methods had indirect effect on psychological well-being. Problem-oriented method had positive impact and emotional-oriented method had negative impact on psychological well-being. There were not any significant relationships between avoidance-oriented method with creative thinking and psychological well-being variables. Therefore as a conclusion coping with stress methods had a mediating role in regards to creative thinking and psychological well-being.

This study investigated the mediating role of resilience on the relationship between family communication patterns (including conversation orientation and conformity orientation) and motivational regulation (including interest enhancement, self-consequating, environmental control, mastery self-talk and performance self-talk). Participants were 572 high school students (290 boys and 282 girls) in Shiraz city selected through multistage cluster sampling method. Structural equation modeling using AMOS software revealed that conversation orientation and conformity orientation can positively predict motivational regulation. However conversation orientation was much stronger than conformity orientation. Conformity orientation predicted motivational regulation directly but the association between conversation orientation and motivational regulation was indirect and mediated by resilience.