COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2019 | Volume:17 | Issue:68 |Papers Count:10

Purpose: This research investigates the effectiveness of society-based life rebuilding program on post-divorce coping for women. Methods: The research population for this quasi-experimental study consisted of all divorced women who in the year 1395 had experienced divorce for at least 5 years, and who had neither married temporarily nor permanently. According to the sample’ s characteristics, convenient sampling was used, from which 34 volunteering individuals were randomly selected and put into the experimental and control groups. Both groups were initially asked to complete the Fisher post-divorce coping scale (2004). Afterwards, the experimental group received 10 sessions with the content by Noor & et al. (2016). Finally, participants from both groups were administered the test, and results were analyzed using multi-variance methodology. Findings: Results shows that society-based life rebuilding program had statistically meaningful effect on all of the subscales of coping, except for the aggression and social trust scale. Discussion: This program may improve post-divorce coping of women and as such can be used as a way to improve quality of life and coping of divorced women.

Purpose: Career goal discrepancy is the perceived gap between the current state and future state that the person considers for his or her career future. The purpose of the study was to predict career goal discrepancy by career-related stress, career goal feedback, and field of study in students. Methods: The statistical population of the study includes all senior students in Isfahan during 2016-2017. From this population, 450 students (225 male & 225 female) were selected through random stratified sampling. Career Goal Discrepancy Scale (Creed & Hood, 2015), Career-Related Stress Inventory (Choi et al, 2011), and Career Goal Feedback Scale (Hu, Creed & Hood, 2016) were used for data collection in this correlational study. Data were analyzed using correlational and multiple-regression methods. Findings: Results showed a positive and meaningful correlation between career-related stress, negative feedback about progress, negative feedback about goal suitability, and field of study with career goal discrepancy. Also, career-related stress, career goal feedback, and field of study predicted career goal discrepancy with coefficient of determination of 0/63. This means that career goal discrepancy can be predicted by career-related stress, career goal feedback, and field of study. Results: It is necessary that school counselors, parents, and other people important to the students think about their current academic state and their ideal state into the future; then help them in order to evaluate the discrepancy between these two, and eventually teach them techniques and actions to reduce this gap.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of emotion-focused counseling model based on Islamic teachings on the level of intimacy in incompatible couples. Methods: In the first stage, the research methodology was used in a qualitative way to extract the Islamic themes about emotion regulation and assess its content validity through a survey of experts in the field. For the second stage, the experimental research method was conducted in the framework of a pseudo-experimental design, utilizing a pre-test and post-test type, with a control group. The statistical population was selected from among 30 volunteers who had been selected from all married clients experiencing marital conflicts and referring to Yara counseling center in city of Saveh in the second half of the year 2017. They were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The toolds for gathering information included Thompson & Walker's Intimacy Scale (1983) and the Bagarozzi Marital Intimacy Needs (MINQ) Questionnaire. The program was run for 10 sessions of 90-minute group counseling for the experimental group, and the control group did not receive any training. Multivariate covariance analysis was used for data analysis. Findings: The research results indicated that the designed model had an appropriate validity (CVR =0. 7125) and significantly increased the marital intimacy and its dimensions: emotional intimacy, psychological, intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, and social-recreational, but it has no significant effect on the two dimensions, sexual and physical. Conclusions: It can be concluded that an emotionfocused counseling based on Islamic teachings model can help inconsistent couples gain more emotional control and more intimacy as an effective way.

Purpose: Current study was conducted to determine and compare the effectiveness of transactional analysis with short-term strategic family therapy on marital conflicts in couples who had referred to petroleum engineering organization’ s counseling center. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental research with experimental and control groups, plus pre and post tests, and a follow-up after 2 months. The study population included couples who had referred to the mentioned counseling center, from which 45 couples were selected based on similar criteria. Moreover, 30 couples were chosen and randomly placed into two experimental and one control group. In this research 10 couples (20 individuals) received transactional analysis while 10 others received short-term strategic family therapy, and the third 10 participants were assigned to the control group. The two experimental groups received eight 90-minute therapy; but the control group was only administered the pre-test, but not received any therapy. All three groups received a post-test and the follow-up test after 2 months. For data analysis, repeated variance analysis and SPSS-22 software were used. Findings: Results showed that both transactional analysis and short-term strategic family therapy had influenced the level of conflict in participating couples in post-test and follow-up (p=0/005, F=5/92). Conclusions: Overall, it can be concluded that intervention with the two methods influences lowering marital conflicts.

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of socio-dynamic counseling on the vocational identity of Isfahan university students. Methods: For this study, quasi-experimental method, with pretest-posttest and follow-up design, and a control group were used. The study population included all of the students at Isfahan university who were studying for their bachelor’ s degree during the year 2015-2016. In this study, 30 subjects were randomly selected through voluntary sampling and were divided into two experimental and control groups (15 subjects in each group). The experimental group underwent socio dynamic counseling, but the control group did not receive any interventions. Data were collected using My Vocational Identity Scale (MVS) of Holland, Digger and Power (1980) and analyzed using SPSS-22 and analysis of variance through repeated measures. Findings: The results showed that socio-dynamic counseling had a significant effect on the vocational identity of students in post-test and follow-up stages (p 0. 05). The results also showed that socio-dynamic counseling had a significant effect on the vocational information and environmental and personal barriers (p 0. 05). Conclusions: The results suggested that socio-dynamic counseling could be used as an auxiliary process in career counseling and education.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to predict the feeling of loneliness and tendency for divorce based on attachment styles, and the mediating role of selfdifferentiation. Methods: This study was of descriptive method and the design was correlational, based on path analysis. The study population included all of the divorce-seeking couples referring to branches 6th, 7th, 8th, and enforcement branch of family court in Shahr-e-Ray city in Tehran during the year 2016. Using available sampling method, 200 subjects were selected. The data was collected using the following four questionnaires: The UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, 1996), Differentiation of Self Inventory (Skowron & Smith, 2003), Divorce Tendency Scale (Rusbult, 1986), and Adult Attachment Scale (Colins & Read, 1990). The results of the analysis were analyzed using structural equation analysis. Findings: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between attachment styles with loneliness and tendency to divorce. There is also a significant relationship between self-differentiation with loneliness and the tendency to divorce. Finally, attachment styles, through self-differentiation, can predict loneliness and tendency to divorce. Conclusions: The research data with the proposed model has a perfect fit, so self-differentiation plays a significant mediating role in the relationship between attachment styles with loneliness and tendency to divorce.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the relationship between job security and organizational justice with job burnout in Emdad committee staff. Method: This study was of descriptive-correlational type, with research population including all of the staff at Emdad committee in Tehran in the year 2015-2016, that corresponded to 14, 000 people. Random cluster sampling was used, and the 220 participating sample filled the job security questionnaire (Nisi, 1381), job burnout questionnaire (Meslash & Jackson, 1981), and organizational justice questionnaire (Niehoff, B. R., Moorman, 1993). The statistical analysis used in this study included regression analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient, and SPSS-18 software was also utilized for data analysis. Findings: The results showed that there was a positive significant relationship between levels of job security and job burnout (p<0. 05). However, some of the dimension of the organizational justice can predict some of the dimension of job burnout (p<0. 05). Conclusions: With job security, job burnout can be reduced in Emdad committee staff, and thorough increasing organizational justice, the rate of progress and success among employees also increased.

Purpose: In Iranian culture, divorce is considered to be an undesirable phenomenon that brings with it a lot of consequences and serious challenges and concerns for people, especially women. In order to deal with the phenomenon of divorce and the subsequent stigma, divorced women often have to consider coping strategies. The aim of the present study is to clarify the coping strategies of women after divorce. Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted using thematic analysis through semi-structured interviews, with 21 divorced women living in the city of Baneh, Iran. Purposive sampling was used and the data collection process continued until data saturation was achieved. Results: The analysis of qualitative data revealed two types of strategies which included adaptable and maladaptive strategies of coping with conditions after divorce. Discussion: The results of the present study revealed that the use of coping strategies among divorced women is different depending on the personal ability, family and social support, and social capital at their disposal. Identifying strategies used by women to deal with conditions of divorce would give a more comprehensive understanding of their needs. Accordingly, empowering divorced women, teaching them coping strategies, strengthening family support, and providing social opportunities are some measures that results in the enhancement of the coping strategies of divorced women in postdivorce situation.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of parent-child interaction with critical thinking and mental health components among adolescent girls. Method: this was a Correlational study. 319 high school girl students in Yazd city were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Dada gathered by Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PCRS), Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CTDI) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28); and then analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression analysis. Results: Correlation analysis showed quality of parent-child interaction has significantly positive relation with mental health and critical thinking. Regression analysis showed father-child relationship can significantly predict mental health and critical thinking in adolescent girls. However, Mother-child relationship has not significant role. Conclusion: Regarding the results, concluded that improvement in father-child relationship is associated with improvement of mental health and critical thinking in adolescent girls.