NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY | Year:2019 | دوره:3 |Papers Count:4

THE PRESENT STUDY IS AIMED AT EXPLORING THE ROLE OF MARITAL STATUS, RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION AND COPING STRATEGIES IN THE SUICIDE-RISK PREDICTION USING A CORRELATIONAL-DESCRIPTIVE, AND IN SOME CASES, PRACTICAL METHODOLOGY. THE SAMPLE GROUP INCLUDES 260 BACHELOR STUDENTS (175 MALES AND 85 FEMALES; 213 SINGLE AND 72 MARRIED) OF SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012. THEY WERE SELECTED BY A MULTI-STAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING METHOD AND THEN MEASURED USING CARVER AND SCHEIER COPING STRATEGY QUESTIONERS (SHORT FORM), BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY-II (BDI-II) AND BECK SCALE FOR SUICIDE IDEATION (BSSI). THE DATA WERE THEN ANALYZED USING A STEP-BY-STEP REGRESSION METHOD AND SPSS SOFTWARE. THE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT ALL THREE VARIABLES CAN PREDICT A SIGNIFICANT PART OF SUICIDAL RISK. MOREOVER, INEFFICIENT COPING STRATEGY SEEMED TO BE THE MOST POWERFUL PREDICTOR OF SUICIDE RISK. THUS, IN ENCOUNTERING WITH PEOPLE EXPOSED TO SUICIDAL RISKS, PSYCHOLOGISTS ARE EXPECTED TO FOCUS MORE ON TRAINING COPING, AS WELL AS PROBLEM-SOLVING METHODS.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNING AND TESTING A MODEL OF SOME ANTECEDENTS OF DEATH ANXIETY IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ. THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE STUDY WERE 254 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS (118 MALE; 136 FEMALE) THAT WERE SELECTED BY MULTISTAGE RANDOM SAMPLING METHOD. THE INSTRUMENTS WERE USED IN THIS STUDY WERE TEMPLER'S DEATH ANXIETY SCALE (DAS), SPIRITUALITY INDEX OF WELL-BEING (SIWB), MEANING IN LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE (MLQ), SNYDER'S HOPE SCALE, ALPORT'S RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION SCALE, MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALE OF PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT (MSPSS) AND SENSE OF HUMOR SCALE. FITNESS OF THE PROPOSED MODEL WAS EXAMINED THROUGH STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING (SEM), USING SPSS-23 AND AMOS-23 SOFTWARE PACKAGES. THE INDIRECT EFFECTS WERE TESTED USING THE BOOTSTRAP PROCEDURE IN PREACHER AND HAYES SPSS MACRO PROGRAM. FINDINGS INDICATED THAT THE PROPOSED MODEL FITS THE DATA RELATIVELY, AND BETTER FITNESS WAS ACHIEVED BY CONNECTING ERRORS OF TWO PATHS. DIRECT PATHS FROM SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING, HOPE, MEANING IN LIFE, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND SENSE OF HUMOR TO DEATH ANXIETY, HOPE AND MEANING IN LIFE TO SPIRITUAL WELLBEING AND THE INDIRECT PATH FROM HOPE AND MEANING IN LIFE TO DEATH ANXIETY WITH MEDIATING ROLE OF SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING WERE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT, BUT THE DIRECT PATHS FROM INTRINSIC RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION TO DEATH ANXIETY NOT SIGNIFICANT.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO PREDICT ACADEMIC ACHIVEMENT BASED ON SOCIAL WELL-BEING AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING IN URMIA UNIVERSITY. THIS RESEARCH IS DESCRIPTIVE IN TERMS OF THE PURPOSE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES AND IN TERMS OF THE METHOD OF RESEARCH IS CORRELATED. THE SAMPLE OF THIS STUDY WAS 206 MALE STUDENTS OF URMIA UNIVERSITY WHO WERE SELECTED THROUGH A MULTISTAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING FROM THE STUDENT POPULATION OF THE UNIVERSITY. TO COLLECT THE DATA, WERE USED QUESTIONNAIRES OF SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF KEYS (1998) AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING OF PULOTZIN AND ELLISON (1982). IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IN THIS STUDY, ACADEMIC ACHIVEMENT WAS THE SAME AS THE AVERAGE OF STUDENTS. DATA ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED ON THE BASIS OF DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS (MEAN, STANDARD DEVIATION) AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS (PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENT, MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION, T-TEST, CORRELATION COEFFICIENT) AND WRITING OF 20 SOFTWARE SPSS. FINDINGS SHOWED THAT THERE IS NO POSITIVE AND SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING AND ACADEMIC ACHIVEMENT. SOCIAL WELL-BEING (COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL COHESION AND SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE) WITH ACADEMIC ACHIVEMENT THERE IS A POSITIVE AND SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING IS PREDICTIVE OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (R2 = 0. 18). THEREFORE, IT CAN BE CONCLUDED THAT SOCIAL WELL-BEING IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN DETERMINING ACADEMIC ACHIVEMENT. THEREFORE, IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT MANAGERS, COUNSELORS AND PROFESSORS FOR POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS WITH THE AIM OF STRENGTHENING SOCIAL WELL-BEING AND ITS DIMENSIONS FOR STUDENTS AND LOWER EDUCATIONAL LEVELS. PLAN AHEAD.

THE BASIC NECESSITIES OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS IS HAVING ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE IMPACT OF STUDY SKILLS INSTRUCTION ON SECONDARY EDUCATION GIRL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY. A QUASI EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH METHOD WAS USED. THE STATISTICAL POPULATION (N= 630) COMPRISED ALL GRADE EIGHT SECONDARY EDUCATION GIRL STUDENTS IN SHIRAZ CITY. USING A MULTISTAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING METHOD, TWO CLASSES WERE SELECTED AS THE STUDY SAMPLE (N= 70). THE INSTRUMENT USED FOR DATA COLLECTION WAS SELF-EFFICACY QUESTIONNAIRE (SEQ). THE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE HAS BEEN REPORTED AS ACCEPTABLE. DATA WERE ANALYZED USING DESCRIPTIVE INDICES AND INFERENTIAL TESTS SUCH AS THE INDEPENDENT T-TEST, ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE AND ONE-WAY ANOVA. FINDINGS SHOW THAT ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY EVALUATION OF THE STUDENTS WHO RECEIVED STUDY SKILLS INSTRUCTION WAS GREATER THAN THOSE OF STUDENTS NOT RECEIVING SUCH INSTRUCTION.