COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2009 | Volume:8 | Issue:29|Papers Count:9

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between perfectionism and mental health in a sample of students. A correlational analysis was performed to assess the kind of association existing among two types of perfectionism including positive perfectionism and negative perfectionism with mental health subscales including psychological well-being and psychological distress. One hundred and eighty five students (92 girls, 85 boys, 8 unknown) were included in this study. All participants were asked to complete the Farsi version of the Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale (FPANPS) and Mental Health Inventory (MHI-28). Analysis of the data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics including means, standard deviations, analysis of variance, pearson's correlation coefficient, and regression analyses. The results revealed that positive perfectionism was positively associated with psychological well-being and negatively associated with psychological distress. The results also revealed that negative perfectionism was negatively associated with psychological well-being and positively associated with psychological distress. Positive perfectionism is supposed in to influence levels of mental health through enhancement of self-esteem and self-confidence and characteristics such as realistic thinking, acceptance of personal limitations, flexibility, and satisfaction from personal performance. Conversly, negative perfectionism is supposed to decrease levels of mental health through reducing self-esteem and self-confidence, as well as characteristics such as unrealistic thinking, unacceptance of personal limitations, inflexibility, and dissatisfaction from personal performance.

The purpose of this study was investigating the effectiveness of Rogerian group counseling method on the self. Esteem of Mentally disabled female students with 16-20 age in vocational skills school. In order to achieve this purpose the Cooper Smith's self-esteem test performed as pre and post tests. 24 female students were vandonly selected and assigned into experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in 9 sessions of Rogerian counseling. At the end, both groups were given post test. Results showed that the group counseling had no significant effect on academic social, family and physical self-esteem.

This is a descriptive study. The purpose was to assess the semantic field of depressed patients and it's efficacy in counseling with them. For this purpose 30 depressed and 30 normal person were selected using available sample method. Research instruments were Beck's depression inventory (revised), altered form of semantic differential test with 6 stimulus concepts (self, life, past, father, mother and future). Results indicated significant difference between semantic field of depressed patients and normal persons in the total and in self and future concepts. The results also showed positive correlation between severity of depression and negative semantic field. Mother concept was the strongest predictor of the rate of depression.

The present study is attempting to investigate the possible effectiveness of religious training, taken from the prophet Joseph' story, on changing the attitudes in male and female relationship. It has been conducted in a group discussion approach. A total number of 191 subjects participated in these studies who were all students of Narjes and Pardis dormitories through 1386-1387. The Statistical sample of this study was 34 female students who had positive attitude toward male and female relationships. Regarding the research 0bjectives, changing the attitude toward male and female relationships, the procedure of data collection is as follows: After pre-testing the studies attitudes toward male and female relationships, the procedure of data collection is as follows: After pre-testing the studies attitude toward male and female relationships were divided into two groups randomly (one as a control group and the other as an experimental group). Eight session group discussion on the prophet Joseph' Story has been planned for the experimental group. Then, a post-test has been administered on changing attitudes toward male and female relationships. The data were analyzes through running indipended T-test and multi-cariant analyzer. The results show that the prophet Joseph's story in group discussion has caused changing in their attitudes in case of male and female relationships. The Level of significance was a= 0.05.

The aim of this research is constructing a specific psychometric tool for evaluation of dormitory adjustment of university student in Tehran. Iran. Two major aspects of the questionnaire, its reliability and validation, are evaluated through this study. Statistical population of the research was all the dormitory students of Tehran's universities. For this purpose, 929 girls and boys with consideration of their ratio were selected randomlybymultisteps method from Allameh Tabatabie, Shahid Beheshti and Tehran Universities. Regarding theoretical bases and principles of questionnaire construction. Dormitory Adjustment Questionnaire (DAQ) was designed and it was carried out through three steps. The information gathered from final examination was analyzed by statistical psychometric methods. Reliability of questionnaire was evaluated with inner consistency method (a= 0.88) and retest method (r = 0.77). For their consideration the factor analysis method was used. Results showed that the extracted factors can explain 51% of questionnaire variances. The scores standardized separately for both boys and girls (T and Z scores).

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of teaching parenting skills on the decrease of marital conflicts using cognitive-behavioral pattern. For this parpuse, one division of education ministery of Isfahan has been selected randomly. Of the elementary schools in this division, two schools have been selected. Thirty four of student's mothers whose scores in marital conflicts questionnaire were more than the average of all were chosen and randomly asigned into two control and experimental groups. Research method was experimental design based on pre-test; post-test with control group. The measurement instruments were the Marital Conflicts Questionnaire of Barati-Sanaei and Parents Authoritative Questionnaire of Bourai. Parenting skills based on cognitive-behavioral patterns were taught to experimental groups. The results indicated that teaching parenting skills based on cognitive-behavioral patterns decrease the marital conflicts. Also teaching parenting skills based on cognitive-behavioral patterns increases parenting skills to mothers with authoritative demention and decrease permissive authoritarian dementions.

The aim of present study was to review the effects of demographic factors (age, gender, parents' education and educational improvement) on pursuing educational and occupational aspirations (orientation of educational and occupational routes) during transitional Period from adolescence ro early youth by utilizing linear information. The theoretical framework of present study is Bandura's social growth theory (1986, 1997). Based on Bandura's social learning theory (1986, 1997), gender and age have continuous effects on individual's behaviors and beliefs in educational and occupational options and achieving them. In other words, factors with continuous and bilateral (mutual) effects (educational improvement, self-concept sufficiency, parent's education, gender, age) are the predictors of aspirations and their final achievement. Longitudinal study is used in this research. 210 students (81 boys and 129 girls) were selected by random sampling and they were studied by a structured questionnaire to the final stage of this 5-year research. The collected data were analysis by descriptive and inferential statistics. Educational and occupational aspirations were analyzed based on the educational and occupational levels that each participant planned to achieve them. The results show the selection of four educational routes in various levels (high school group, college group, undergraduate group and graduated group) for youngsters. The findings indicate that educational improvement in early high school is the only variable which shows stable educational aspirations and routs in the early youth. There is not a statistically significant difference between age, gender, parent's education and educational and occupational aspirations. Overall, the finding show that early interference is effective to reform the aspirations in order to create the best and real aims as well as expanding suitable occupational plans as a tool to facilitate individuals' convepts of their all capabilities.