mozaffar ghaffari; Ali Mohammadzadeh; mahdih gheramifar
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Objective: The aim of this study was to developing the structural models of social competence in high school girl students based on the positive emotions, psychological capital and body image. Method: The research method applied in this study was correlational and structural equation modeling. Statistical ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to developing the structural models of social competence in high school girl students based on the positive emotions, psychological capital and body image. Method: The research method applied in this study was correlational and structural equation modeling. Statistical population of this study was all secondary school students of Sabzevar in the academic year 2019-2020. The statistical sample was 200 female high school students that have been selected by cluster sampling. Watson, Clark and Telgen positive emotions questionnaire, Luthans and Luthans psychological capital questionnaire, Winsted and Janda body image questionnaire and Parandin social competence questionnaire were used for data collection. The data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, Bootstrap and Sobel tests using SPSS and Amos version 24. Results: The results indicated that positive emotions and body image in interaction with the role of psychological capital are involved in explaining the models of social competence in high school qirls, in which case the variance of social competence in high school qirls through variables of the model is explained by 37% in total. The direct effect of psychological capital (0.20), positive emotions (0.15) and body image (0.48) were significant in estimating social competence in student. Also, the results showed that the indirect effects of positive emotions (t-value = 1.9) and body image (t-value = 2.18) through conversation orientation on student's social competence were significant. Conclusion: Considering the direct and indirect effects of the exogenous and mediating variables social competence, it can be concluded that social competence can be increased by enhancing positive emotions, psychological capital and body image.
farin saydi; hosein zare; majid safarinia; nasrolah erfani
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Objective: Infidelity is an emotional, social, familial, legal, and moral complex problem causes adverse consequences. The ability to tolerate the distress of infidelity can be influenced by a variety of factors. According to these varieties, the aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating ...
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Objective: Infidelity is an emotional, social, familial, legal, and moral complex problem causes adverse consequences. The ability to tolerate the distress of infidelity can be influenced by a variety of factors. According to these varieties, the aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of cognitive flexibility and stress perception in the relationship between psychological capital and forgiveness with distress tolerance. Method: The method of present study was a correlational study of structural equation modelling. The statistical population in the present study included all married men and women with an experience of infidelity, who referred to family counseling centers in Tehran in in fall and winter in 2019, which Among them 215 people were selected by random cluster sampling method. They completed the distress tolerance, psychological capital, and Forgiveness and stress perception questionnaires. Data were analyzed by using SPSS-22 software and analysis of indexes fitness in moment structures (AMOS). Results: The results were supported the fitness of the proposed model after controlling the overlap between two variables. The results of structural equation analysis and regression indicated that there are significance coefficients of direct path in the final model. Also According to the first path, the mediaing role of the cognitive flexibility was identified in the relationship between psychological capital and forgiveness with distress tolerance in couples. But in the second path, it was found that the stress perception variable had a modulating role in the positive effect of forgiveness and psychological capital on distress tolerance. Conclusion: Based on these results, it can be concluded that although psychological capital and forgiveness have a positive direct effect on distress tolerance in couples who suffering from marital infidelity. However, high cognitive flexibility has a facilitating role and in contrast to the high perceived stress has a moderating role on distress tolerance.
