JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2006 | Volume:13 | Issue:1|Papers Count:8

The present study examines personality traits, social skills, attachment styles and demographic characteristics as the predictors of success or failure of marital relationship in intact and divorce- seeking couples of Ahvaz. 128 divorce- seeking and 129 intact couples (514) consisted the main sample and 61 divorce- seeking and 100 intact couples (322) consisted the validation Sample. The divorce Sample was selected from the population of divorce seeking couples and the intact sample was selected by the use of multi-stage random sampling. The Revised NEO Personality Inventory, the Social Skills Inventory, the Experiences in Close Relationships Revised (ECR-R) questionnaire and a researcher- made demographic questionnaire were administered to all the couples in the main sample. One hypothesis concerning the predictive roles of the personality social skills, attachment styles and demographic characteristics was advanced. In order to analyze the data both discriminate analysis and descriptive statistics were utilized. Findings revealed the fact that successor failure in marital relationship can be predicted from the variables of personality traits, social skills, attachment styles and demographic characteristics. The results confirmed the hypothesis of this study. The results obtained and the model presented in this study is discussed in detail.

This study was conducted to find out the relationship of the collective efficacy, mastery math and reading experiences, and social-economic status with math and reading performances of female fifth-grade students in Ahvaz, using multi-level analysis. The sampling was done on two levels: on the school level, 20 schools with 163 teachers (the whole population of the 4th educational county in Ahvaz), and on the student level, 1034 fifth-grade students of the elementary schools (the total population) were selected. Also, a sample of 100 teachers were selected, separately from other educational counties (not including county 4), to analyze the reliability and validity of the scale of collective efficacy. The students completed the questionnaire of social-economic status and the teachers completed the scales of self-efficacy and collective efficacy. By the way, the students' math and reading grades of the previous year and also the math and reading grades of their fifth grade were obtained from their files, as the mastery math and reading experiences and math/reading performance, respectively. The results indicated that schools were significantly different in collective efficacy. And mastery math experiences, mastery reading experiences and the social-economic status of the students, separately, predicted the variability of the collective efficacy among schools. Also, the schools were significantly different in math performance but they showed no significant difference in the reading performance.Furthermore, collective efficacy and social- economic status were not predictors of math performance among schools, but mastery math experience predicted the math performance among schools.

The present study has been an endeavour to determine the effect of life skills training on mental health and self-esteem among first year high school girl students in Ham. The related population of this study includes all first year high school girl students in Ham. The sample includes 60 students who were selected randomly according to a multistage sampling method. They were, then divided into two groups; experimental and control groups. The materials used in this research are as follows: Goldberg General Health Questionnaire, Cooper Smith self- esteems Scale and Life Skills Training Guide. The pretest posttest control group design was used. A pretest was administered to both the experimental and the control groups. Then, the experimental group was provided with the treatment. A post-test was administered to both groups at the end of the treatment period. The results of this study reveal that: 1. life skills training enhance the mental health and self-esteem in experimental girl students in comparison to the control group.

This research was conducted to study the relationships between the organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior of employees in an industrial organization. Organizational justice deals with the ways and methods of conduct with the personnel of organizations to feel that they are treated fairly. This variable is comprised of three components distributional, procedural and interactional justice. Organizational citizenship behavior or OCB is a behavior by an employee intended to help coworkers or the organization, and in contrast to job performance, OCB is a behavior that goes beyond the formal requirements of a job. The following hypothesis was constructed: (1) The whole organizational justice is positively related to the organizational citizenship behavior. (2) Distributional justice is positively related to the organizational citizenship behavior (3) Procedural justice is positively related to the organizational citizenship behavior. (4) Interactional justice is positively related to the organizational citizenship behavior. (5) The three components of organizational justice have significant multiple correlation with the organizational citizenship behavior. The sample consisted of 200 employees of an industrial .organization, selected via a stratified random sampling method. Simple and multiple correlations were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the variable of organizational justice and its three components were correlated positively with organizational citizenship behavior and its components; conscientiousness, courtesy, civicvirtue, sportsmanship and loyalty. Result of a multiple regression analysis also showed that the three components of organizational justice have a significant multiple correlations with the organizational citizenship behavior.

The present research was conducted to study simple and multiple relationships of religious attitude, optimism and attachment styles with marital satisfaction in male married students in Shahid Chamran University. The population of this study included all of the marrid students of Shahid Chamran University. The sample of this study consisted of 212 male married students that were selected by simple random sampling. The instruments used in this study were: 1. Moslem Religiousness Inventory, 2. Attribution Styles Questionnaire (ASQ), 3. Adult Attachment Styles Questionnaire, 4. Marital Satisfaction (Enrich). Simple and multiple correlations were used to analyze the data. The results indicate that the religious attitude, its subscales, optimism and attachment styles have significant positive correlations with marital satisfaction. Also, Religious attitude, optimism and attachment styles are best predictors of marital satisfaction.

The present study examined the effects of group assertive training on social anxiety, social skills and assertiveness of male first grade high school students in Shiraz. The related population includes all first year high school male students in Shiraz. The sample includes 60 students who were selected randomly according to a multistage sampling method. They were, then, divided into experimental and control groups. The scales used in this study were Assertiveness Scale, Eisler and Miller's Rating Scale and Watson and Friend's Anxiety Scale. The design was a pre-post test with control group.Both groups were pre and post tested, but only the experimental group received the treatment. The results showed that group assertive training increased social skills and assertiveness and decreased social anxiety.