Majid Baradaran
Volume 6, Issue 1 , August 2017, , Pages 67-76
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was to study the comparison of temperament and character dimensions and cognitive emotion regulation in anxious and normal students. Method:The study was a causal-comparative study and 87 anxious individuals and 87 normal individuals were selected from the students ...
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was to study the comparison of temperament and character dimensions and cognitive emotion regulation in anxious and normal students. Method:The study was a causal-comparative study and 87 anxious individuals and 87 normal individuals were selected from the students of Payame Noor University of rasht city as the sample of the study. The groups( anxious individuals and normal individuals) matched in demographic features(age and sex) and completed the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and Temperament and Character Inventory. Results: Results revealed that there were significant differences between anxious and normal students in all factors of cognitive emotion regulation(self blame, other blame, acceptance,rumination, positive refocusing,refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, putting in to perspective, catastrophizing) and temperament and character dimensions (Harm avoidance, self-directiveness, co-operativeness and self-transendence). Conclusion: The results show that cognitive emotion regulation and temperament and character dimensions determine the anxiety intensity in anxious people.
somayeh negahdari; mohammad hasan seif; mohammad reza sarmadi; mehran farajollahi; ahmad rastegar
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to present a causal model of the need for cognition and immersion in digital games among high school students in the academic year of 2017-18 in Shiraz by using path analysis method. Method: The statistical sample of this study consisted of 600 students of ...
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to present a causal model of the need for cognition and immersion in digital games among high school students in the academic year of 2017-18 in Shiraz by using path analysis method. Method: The statistical sample of this study consisted of 600 students of Shiraz city who were selected through multistage cluster sampling method. The research instruments were Cacioppo and Petty' Need for Cognition (NFC) (1982), Williams and Deci' Learning Climate Questionnaire (LCQ) (1996), VandeWalle et al.'s Goal Orientation (2001), Pekrun et al.' Academic Emotions (2005), Jackson Wicklewood’s Intrinsic Flow of Learning (2008) (Second Edition), and Brown and Forer' Flow and Immersion (2010) questionnaires. Results: In general, the results showed that the need for cognition has direct effect on emotions, goal orientation and intrinsic flow of learning. Also, emotions and intrinsic learning flow have a direct effect on immersion and fluidity. The need for cognition with mediating the goal orientation and flow of learning and emotions, and also goal orientation and intrinsic flow have indirect effect on immersion. Conclusion: All variables in this study explain 0.30 of the variables in the immersion and the model has a good fit with respect to the data.
hossein salimi; Ezatollah Ghadampour; Fatemeh Rezaei
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and communication skills with sacrifice due to psychological crisis using structural equation modeling method. Method: The present study used a correlation and single-stage cluster sampling method ...
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and communication skills with sacrifice due to psychological crisis using structural equation modeling method. Method: The present study used a correlation and single-stage cluster sampling method to test the structural relationship between environmental factors and communication skills with the mediation of psychological distress and victims of bullying among 350 middle school students in Boukan city. For this purpose, the Iranian version of Moradi victimization scale (2009) and Lewinda's Depression (1995), Anxiety and Stress Scale for measuring psychological crisis, Samini's Social Support (1995), Queendom's Communication Skills (2004), and perception of the school atmosphere derived from the scale of the classroom environment of the Trickett and Moos(1973) Information gathering tools were used. Results: The results of the structural equation analysis showed that the conceptual model of the research with Chi-square test was 63/33 and the degree of freedom of 51 are well fitted. Psychological aesthetics, communication skills and environmental factors directly provide good predictors for the victimization of knowledge students were. Also, communication skills and environmental factors predicted indirectly by the psychological crisis of the victim.Conclusion:The results showed that, in line with the conceptual model, the dimensions of psychological crisis, communication skills and environmental factors directly and indirectly related to the victimization of students.
Mahbobeh Taher; nader hajloo
Volume 5, Issue 2 , November 2016, , Pages 72-93
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The aim of this research was studied effectiveness and comparing empathy and anger management trainings on social cognition in children with oppositional defiant disorder. The method of research is experimental and research design is pretest- posttest with multi groups. The sample consisted of 54 boy ...
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The aim of this research was studied effectiveness and comparing empathy and anger management trainings on social cognition in children with oppositional defiant disorder. The method of research is experimental and research design is pretest- posttest with multi groups. The sample consisted of 54 boy students of seventh and eighth grades with oppositional defiant disorder in 2014-2015 academic years in Sari city, which were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling and were assigned to 3 groups (2 experimental groups and 1 control groups). For data collecting were used from oppositional defiant disorder rating scale for children (Homerson et al., 2006), the structured clinical interview (First et al., 1999) and social stories (Tur-Kaspa & Brayran, 1994). For educational groups, empathy training and anger management training was executed at 8 weekly sessions in 60 minutes whereas control group have any training. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed empathy training and anger management training can improve social cognition (and it's components) and the effectiveness of the trainings according to eta squared is 84 percent (P
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.
Clinical Psychology
tahereh lotfizadeh; Mir shahram Safari; hosein zare; Kambiz Poshneh; Mohammad Hasan Asayesh
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This research was conducted to determine the effectiveness of paradox therapy on behavioral functions, emotional regulation, and brain functions by FNIRS in treating aerophobia. The current research design was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with an experimental group (paradox therapy) and ...
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This research was conducted to determine the effectiveness of paradox therapy on behavioral functions, emotional regulation, and brain functions by FNIRS in treating aerophobia. The current research design was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with an experimental group (paradox therapy) and a control group (13 people in each group) with a 1-month follow-up test. The statistical population of this research included people who were fear of flying, and they were invited to participate in an invitation in 2024 in Tehran. Fear of flying questionnaire, emotion regulation questionnaire and Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (FNIRS) were used to collect data and also 5 session protocol (one session per week and 60 minutes each session) of paradox therapy was used for intervention. The data were analyzed with the methods of analysis of variance with repeated measurements and t-tests. The findings indicated that the paradox therapy program improved the behavioral functions and also the average oxyhemoglobin contrast signal of the left hemisphere channels in the post-test had a significant decrease compared to the pre-test (p<0.01), but it had no significant effect on emotion regulation (p>0.01). In general, paradox therapy is very important in improving the fear of flying. It can improve the behavioral and brain functions of a person, and this method can be used to treat the fear of flying.
Educational Psychology
Mohammad Oraki; Reihane Barari Lafmajani
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The present study aimed to present a structural model of self-actualization based on creative thinking and perceived empowerment in students with the mediating role of problem-solving ability. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study included all students ...
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The present study aimed to present a structural model of self-actualization based on creative thinking and perceived empowerment in students with the mediating role of problem-solving ability. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study included all students of Payam Noor University in Varamin in the academic year 1402-1403. The sample size for structural equation modeling was estimated to be 350 people. The available sample was used to collect research data, and the research tools were the standard questionnaires of self-actualization by Soleimani et al. (1396), creative thinking skills by Wilch and Duval (2002), empowerment by Spritzer (1995), and problem-solving skills by Cassidy and Long (1996). The research data were analyzed at the descriptive statistical level by calculating the mean and standard deviation, and at the inferential statistical level by using Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling using SPSS version 26 and IMOS version 24 software. The research findings showed that the structural model of self-actualization based on creative thinking and perceived empowerment in students with the mediating role of problem-solving ability has a good fit. Also, creative thinking, perceived empowerment, and problem-solving ability have a direct effect on students' self-actualization, and problem-solving ability has a direct effect on students' creative thinking and perceived empowerment. Therefore, according to the research findings, it is suggested that: Factors affecting students' self-actualization be taken into account and universities and higher education centers, while cultivating creative thinking and problem-solving ability in them, increase their perceived empowerment so that capable individuals are trained for the future of the country.
Mahnaz Aliakbari; Tayebeh Mohtashmi; Prasto Hasanzadeh
Volume 1, Issue 1 , June 2013, , Pages 44-58
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Objective: the aim of this research was to study psychometric characteristics of masculinity and femininity factors in short form Bem`s Sex-Role Inventory with emphasis on factor analysis in Iranian population. Method: Statistical population of this research was included employed women and men in Tehran ...
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Objective: the aim of this research was to study psychometric characteristics of masculinity and femininity factors in short form Bem`s Sex-Role Inventory with emphasis on factor analysis in Iranian population. Method: Statistical population of this research was included employed women and men in Tehran City`s state companies, administrations and organizations that About 1000 employed women and men randomly selected by multi-phases clustering sampling from statistical population. Research tool was Bem`s Sex-Role Inventory. For studying the scale`s reliability was used of Cronbach`s alpha coefficient and for studying the scale`s validity used of exploratory factor analysis and Confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Cronbach`s alpha coefficient showed that Bem`s Sex-Role Inventory has high reliability in both masculinity and femininity factors and Confirmatory factor analysis showed that model has poor fitness in determining factors in the primary form expressed by Bem, while the results of 30 items` exploratory factor analysis showed three factors, masculinity, femininity and neutral with changing in some main items. Conclusion: Results show that not only some of femininity and masculinity traits have changed under culture and governing values on Iran society, but olso importance of masculine and feminine traits are under governing culture on society.
Vahid Nejati; Sara Aghayi Sabet; Marzyeh Khoshali Panah
Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2014, , Pages 47-53
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Introduction: Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have difficulties in social interactions with peers and are confronted with peers rejection and social isolation. However, some researchers do not have agreement about this issue. So the purpose of this study was the comparison ...
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Introduction: Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have difficulties in social interactions with peers and are confronted with peers rejection and social isolation. However, some researchers do not have agreement about this issue. So the purpose of this study was the comparison of the social cognition ability in ADHD children and normal children. Method: For this reason, Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET) was conducted to 25 ADHD children and 25 normal children who were matched for age and IQ. Findings: The results indicated that the performance of ADHD children in RMET was significantly lower than the control group. Conclusions: Since the mind reading is one of the most important elements of the social cognition, it can be concluded that impairment in mind reading ability is one of the affective factors in failure of these children in social interactions and interpersonal relationship.
Reza Shabahang; Mohammad Ali Besharat; Farzin Bagheri Sheykhangafshe; Manijeh Firoozi; Abbas Rahiminejad
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Introduction: By expanding the culture of celebrities, experts talk about strong desire to celebrities and their related issues;in this regard, parasocialbonds can play important roles in worshippingcelebrities. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the role of parasocial interactionexperience, ...
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Introduction: By expanding the culture of celebrities, experts talk about strong desire to celebrities and their related issues;in this regard, parasocialbonds can play important roles in worshippingcelebrities. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the role of parasocial interactionexperience, parasocial interaction, and par asocial breakdown in predicting theworship ofcelebrities.Method: The research design was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the study consisted of students of the faculty of literature and humanity sciences of the University of Guilan in 2018. In this study, 240 female and male students were selected throughconvenience sampling method. For collecting data, Celebrity Worship Attitude Scale (McCutcheon et al., 2002), Parasocial Interaction Experience scale (Hartmann &Goldhoorn, 2011), parasocial interaction scale (Rubin et al., 1985) and parasocial breakup scale(Cohen, 2003) were used. Then, data were analyzed throughPearson correlation formula and multiple regression method. Results: The results indicated that the parasocial interaction and parasocial breakup could significantly predict the worship ofcelebrities, whileparasocial interaction experience was not able to predict theworshipof celebrities. Conclusion: According to the results, the parasocial interaction and parasocial breakup play important roles in fascination tofavorite celebrities and worshiping them. Therefore, interventions to reduce extreme parasocial interactions, as well as the reduction of aversive behaviors and emotions after the parasocial breakup, can lead to the reduction in worshipping celebrities and consequently reducing its problems.
Fatemeh Bayanfar; Nehzat Raheli Moghadam
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Objective: the aim of the present study was to investigate the structural model of academic adjustment based on cognitive load, cognitive flexibility, and metacognitive awareness, with the mediation of social-emotional competence and time perspective. Method:Research method was descriptive ,correlational ...
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Objective: the aim of the present study was to investigate the structural model of academic adjustment based on cognitive load, cognitive flexibility, and metacognitive awareness, with the mediation of social-emotional competence and time perspective. Method:Research method was descriptive ,correlational and structural equation modeling.The statistical population included all high school students of Talesh city in the academic year 2021-2022, which Among them 384 people were selected by accessible sampling method and completed the questionnaires online. The instruments was include Baker & Seriak's academic adjustment scale (1984), Paas, Van Merenboer, Adam's (1994) cognitive load questionnaire, Dennis& Vanderwaal's (2010) cognitive flexibility questionnaire, Mokhtari &Richard's (2002) metacognitive awareness of reading strategies questionnaire, social-emotional competence scale by Ming Ming Zhou& Jesse E. (2012), Zimbardo &Boyd's time perspective questionnaire (1999). The results showed that the conceptual model developed had a good fit with the data. The results of structural equation analysis indicated the significance of the coefficients of the direct path between cognitive load and cognitive flexibility with academic adjustment in the final model. According to the first path, the positive mediating role of social-emotional competence in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and metacognitive awareness It was determined with academic adjustment. In the second path, it was found that the time perspective has a positive role due to cognitive flexibility and metacognitive awareness on academic adjustment. Conclusion: Using strategies to increase cognitive flexibility and metacognitive awareness and reduce undesirable cognitive load can lead to an increase in academic adjustment in students.
Mohammad Oraki; Chiman Jamali; Mehran Farajollahi; Ali Karimi Firouzjaei
Volume 1, Issue 2 , June 2013, , Pages 52-61
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Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of relationship enrichment on the rate of compatibility of married students. Method: The study was a quasi- experimental study with pre-test and post-test design. The statistical population comprised of 30 university student couples ...
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Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of relationship enrichment on the rate of compatibility of married students. Method: The study was a quasi- experimental study with pre-test and post-test design. The statistical population comprised of 30 university student couples of Payame-Noor University of Uromieh. The couples were randomly divided into control (15 couples) and experimental groups (15 couples). The independent variable was relationship enrichment that was tested on experimental group in 10 sessions. The control group was not exposed to any variable. The research instrument was marital adjustment questionnaire. Results: the results showed that relationship enrichment is effective for couples’ compatibility, the aspects of which include: marital satisfaction, marital solidarity, couples agreement, and expression of love. Conclusion: Relationship enrichment increases the marital compatibility.
Alireza Aghayoosefi; Hossein Zare; somaieh porbafrany
Volume 2, Issue 1 , August 2014, , Pages 52-68
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Introduction: the purpose of this research is the calculation primary reliability and validity personal fable and new imaginary audience scale to evaluate egocentrism among adults. Method: 308 students of payame noor university were sampled by sampling, volunteer They were asked to complete personal ...
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Introduction: the purpose of this research is the calculation primary reliability and validity personal fable and new imaginary audience scale to evaluate egocentrism among adults. Method: 308 students of payame noor university were sampled by sampling, volunteer They were asked to complete personal fable scale and new imaginary audience scale (1967) in order to evaluate egocentrism. Also, both Beck depression inventory form blend (1970) and zuckerman sensation seeking (1978) were used to determine concurrent validity. Achieved data was analyzed by Pierson's conjunction coefficient, cronbach’s Alpha, Guttmann split-half, and factorial analysis. Findings: Analyzing data indicated that there is correlation, indirect and meaningful between personal fable scale with depression (p’s Alpha 0/78 and the reliability of imaginary audience is achieved by cronbach’s Alpha 0/86 and the reliability of imaginary audience is achieved by Guttmann split-half 0/75, and then, by factorial analysis to personal fable scale was extracted 3 factors and to imaginary audience was extracted 11 factors. Conclusion: calculation primary personal fable scales and new imaginary audience are as reliability and validate tools/means in order to evaluate egocentrism among adults.
Psychology
somayeh negahdari; Mohammad Hassan Seyfe
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The main purpose of this study was to provide a causal model of cognitive flexibility on addiction to social network with the mediating role of self-efficacy, psychological well-being and cognitive empathy. Methodology: descriptive correlational method was used in this study. The statistical population ...
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The main purpose of this study was to provide a causal model of cognitive flexibility on addiction to social network with the mediating role of self-efficacy, psychological well-being and cognitive empathy. Methodology: descriptive correlational method was used in this study. The statistical population were all second year high school students of Shiraz city in the academic year of 1399-1400, they were included 68,152. The sample size was 382 which selected according to Cochran's formula. The sampling method used was a multi-stage cluster sampling. Data collection instruments included cognitive flexibility questionnaires by Dennis and Vanderwaal (2010), cognitive empathy by Jolliffe and Farrington (2006), psychological well-being by Rief (1989), general self-efficacy by Sherer et al. (1982) and addiction to social networks by Ahmadi et al (1395). Findings: The path analysis method was used to analyze the data. Research findings indicated that cognitive flexibility has a direct effect on self-efficacy, psychological well-being, and cognitive empathy. Also, self-efficacy, psychological well-being and cognitive empathy have a direct effect on addiction to social networks. Generally, it can be said that self-efficacy, psychological well-being, and cognitive empathy has a mediating role in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and addiction to social networks. Conclusion: All the variables mentioned in this study explained only 0.07 of the variables in addiction to social network and the research model has a relatively goodness of fit regarding the data.Keywords: cognitive flexibility, addiction to social networks, self-efficacy, psychological well-being, cognitive empathy
Psychology
Asie Moradi; Kamran Yazdanbakhsh; Zahra Mahdian
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Purpose: Since there is a positive relationship between executive functions and theory of mind with moral judgment, in the current research, the aim is to investigate the relationship between executive functions and moral judgment with regard to the mediating role of theory of mind.Method: This descriptive-correlation ...
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Purpose: Since there is a positive relationship between executive functions and theory of mind with moral judgment, in the current research, the aim is to investigate the relationship between executive functions and moral judgment with regard to the mediating role of theory of mind.Method: This descriptive-correlation study was based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this research was 9 to 11-year-old children of Ilam City, and 370 of them were selected by convenience sampling method. Sinha and Verma's (1971) moral judgment questionnaire, Ghamrani et al.'s (2006) theory of mind, and Barkley's (2012) executive functions were used to collect information. The data were analyzed by Spearman's correlation and structural equation modeling using SPSS version 24 and Smart PLS version 3 software.Findings: The findings showed that there is a relationship between executive functions and moral judgment (β=0/246 % & P<0/05), executive functions and theory of mind (β=0/545 % & P<0/05), and theory of mind and moral judgment (β=0/494 % & P<0/05). Also, the mediating role of the theory of mind in the relationship between executive functions and moral judgment (β=0/269 % & P<0/05) was confirmed.Conclusion: Executive function is the underlying cognitive capacity that enables and facilitates higher level cognition such as reasoning and decision making in moral situations. Also, the executive function has an effect on improving the level of the theory of mind. Therefore, in order to improve moral judgment, intervention programs that target the development of executive functions should be given more attention; Because it is possible to provide a suitable platform for improving the level of the theory of mind through the improvement of executive functions, and the improvement of the theory of mind will affect the progress of moral judgments.
ali Farhadi; yazdan movahedi; amir azizi; Fazlullah GhasemiKeli; kolsom karimi nejad
Volume 3, Issue 2 , January 2015, , Pages 55-66
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Introduction: The present study was administrated to determine the effectiveness of social skills, training on promoting the theory of mind in aggressive adolescents. Method: The statistical population consisted of male students of high schools in Bukan city in the academic year of 2014. The statistical ...
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Introduction: The present study was administrated to determine the effectiveness of social skills, training on promoting the theory of mind in aggressive adolescents. Method: The statistical population consisted of male students of high schools in Bukan city in the academic year of 2014. The statistical sample included 40 students who had higher scores after completing the Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire. These students took part in the theory of mind test as well. The collected data were analyzed using the statistical test of multivariate variance. Resultss: The results of multivariate variance analysis indicated that social skills training in experimental group had a significant effect on promoting the theory of mind and decreasing aggression. It can be claimed that social skills training leads to decrease of aggression in adolescents.
Taiebeh Yeganeh; Abbas Ali Hosseinkhanzadeh; Mohammad Reza Zarbakhsh
Volume 3, Issue 1 , July 2014, , Pages 57-72
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Introduction: As one of the serious problems in students with ADHD disorder is insufficiency in social skills, the current study aimed at studying the Effectiveness of social skill training via cognitive-behavioral approach on Reducing Symptoms of ADHD disorder in students. Method: The method was experimental ...
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Introduction: As one of the serious problems in students with ADHD disorder is insufficiency in social skills, the current study aimed at studying the Effectiveness of social skill training via cognitive-behavioral approach on Reducing Symptoms of ADHD disorder in students. Method: The method was experimental and the research design was pre-test, post-test with control group and two months follow-up. The statistic population included all female elementary students of 5th and 6th grades with ADHD disorder in Langrood city in 2012-13 educational year. The subjects, 30 students, were selected via random multilevel clustering as samples and were divided into two experimental and control groups. Walker Social Skills Curriculum was presented in 17 sessions during two months for members of the experimental group. Results: The results of repeated measures Ancova showed that there is a significant difference between the rate of symptoms of ADHD disorder during post-test and follow-up. Conclusion: Based on the results of current research and similar ones, it is expected that social skills training programs be considered as a complement aspect to schools curriculums.
Educational Psychology
Ali Mostafaee; Jila Ahmadi
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The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being of female students of the second year of high school in Mahabad city with the mediating role of self-compassion and pleasure-seeking. The research method is descriptive ...
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The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being of female students of the second year of high school in Mahabad city with the mediating role of self-compassion and pleasure-seeking. The research method is descriptive and correlation type. The statistical population was the total female students of the second period of high school in Mahabad city, whose number was 3621. 348 students (After removing 35 incomplete questionnaires) were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research instruments were zimet et al.'s Perceived Social Support Scale (1988), Tuominen-Soinie etal.'s Academic Well-Being (2012), Neff's Self-Compassion scale (2003), and Snaith_Hamilton's anhedonia Scale (1995). Data were analyzed with spss 26 and pls 3 software. The results showed that there is a positive relationship (0.01) between pleasure seeking and academic well-being between perceived social support and academic well-being; Perceived social support and hedonism; self-compassion and academic well-being; and there is a positive relationship between perceived social support and self-compassion (0.05). Self-compassion plays a mediating role between perceived social support and academic well-being; Hedonism also plays a mediating role in the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being.
Saeed Talebi; Hossin zare
Volume 4, Issue 2 , January 2016, , Pages 62-75
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Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the content validity ratio as well as the construct validity of Educational Expectations Questionnaire. Furthermore, it investigated the role of Others' Expectations on the change of attitude towards using E-curriculum content. Method: The method was correlation ...
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Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the content validity ratio as well as the construct validity of Educational Expectations Questionnaire. Furthermore, it investigated the role of Others' Expectations on the change of attitude towards using E-curriculum content. Method: The method was correlation and the population included the PNU students of Fars province. The sample was selected based on Krejcie and Morgan formula and cluster sampling. Two instruments including the Teo Questionnaires (2006) and a researcher made Questionnaire of Educational Expectations were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using second confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regressions. Results: The three factors of friends and peers, teachers, and parents explained 53.71% of the total variance of Educational Expectations Questionnaire. Although in Lawshe`s Content Validity Ratio method three questions had been removed, in this study none of the questions in the second confirmatory factor analysis were deleted. Also, there was a meaningful relationship between educational expectations of friends and peers (ß=0.369), teachers (ß=0.302) and parents (ß=0.287) with changing attitudes towards electronic content. In addition, parents' (ß=0.173) and teachers' (ß=0.230) expectations influence friends' and peers' expectations from each other. Conclusion: In general, the Educational Expectations Scale has good content and construct validity and can be used to assess Others' Expectations from students. In addition, the model presented in this study is an appropriate model for investigating Others' Expectations of the change of attitude towards the E-curriculum content.
abbas abolghasemi; mina taherifard
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Introduction: The aim of the present study was to compare social recognition and Facial Emotion Recognition in patients with newly diagnosed and chronic schizophrenia. Method: current study is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of this study included all patients with hospitalized ...
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Introduction: The aim of the present study was to compare social recognition and Facial Emotion Recognition in patients with newly diagnosed and chronic schizophrenia. Method: current study is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of this study included all patients with hospitalized and outpatient schizophrenia referring to Fajr and Razi clinical centers and hospitals in Tabriz city in 2016. The sample consisted of 120 patients who were selected through available sampling. To collect data, Westen's social cognition scale and Ekman and Fareis's facial emotion recognition test were used. Results: The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that there is a significant difference between social cognition and facial emotion recognition in patients with newly diagnosed and chronic schizophrenia .Individual with chronic schizophrenia was better than newly diagnosed schizophrenia. Conclusion: These findings suggest that deficiencies in social cognition and facial affective recognition in newly diagnosed schizophrenia can be associated with inability and affect their social and occupational functioning.
saeed farmani; Rahim Badri; Zahra Shafiei
Volume 4, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 67-83
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Aims: Recent research suggests that in some conditions people process others’ perspective without any necessity. Also, some studies indicatethat we compute our perspective initially during mindreading. The automatic mindreading led to some dispute and the processes involved in mindreading are these ...
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Aims: Recent research suggests that in some conditions people process others’ perspective without any necessity. Also, some studies indicatethat we compute our perspective initially during mindreading. The automatic mindreading led to some dispute and the processes involved in mindreading are these days the focus of attention of researchers. This study aimed at determining the limitations of automatic mindreading with respect to others’ perspective. Method: For this purpose, a within subject project was performed. By accessible sampling method, 25 high school students were selected from Sahand Cityin 2013-2014 academic year. The Participants were tested by an instrument made by authors that measuredthe speed and accuracy of mind reading. Results: The results from repeated measure revealed that the main effects of perspective type (P=0.007), judgment type (P=0.001) and the interactive effect of these two (P=0.001) are significant. Furthermore, the results of pairwise comparisons showed that judgments in equal perspective situation are faster than similar (P=0.02) and incomplete (P=0.005) situations. Conclusion: According to the results, itseems that equal perspective is an optimized situation for mindreading. The results have some challenges for Apply’s theory.
mehrnaz saffarinia; Ali Mohammad Mazidi; Majid Saffarinia
Volume 5, Issue 1 , August 2016, , Pages 68-82
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was comparing spreading rumors on the Internet and Narcissism among Face Book, Internet, and non-Internet users of citizens of Tehran. Method: A sample of 500 Internet users was selected on cluster random basis from among the 22 districts of Tehran. This sample ...
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was comparing spreading rumors on the Internet and Narcissism among Face Book, Internet, and non-Internet users of citizens of Tehran. Method: A sample of 500 Internet users was selected on cluster random basis from among the 22 districts of Tehran. This sample consisted of 183 Internet users, 163 Face Book users, and 100 non-Internet users with no information of the Internet. The study benefited from Narcissism questionnaire (Raskin & Tri 1988), Internet rumor questionnaire (John Hiven Kim & Viag 2010) Face Book questionnaire (Ras et al. 2009) as tools to collect data. Out of the 500 questionnaires, 44 were eliminated due to being incomplete resulting in a total 456 questionnaires. To analyse the data, Pearson correlation and Variance were used. Results: The findings showed a significant positive relationship between Narcissism and using Face Book and Narcissism can predict 28% of using Face Book. However, there was no meaningful relationship between the time of using the Internet and spreding roumor on the Internet. In addition, in relation to the variable of Narcissism, the results showed significant difference between Determinism, Show off, Superiority, Beneficiary, and Egotism among the 3 groups; however, there was no significant difference between Exploitation and Autarky. In addition, this study showed that there is no significant difference between spreading rumors and its components among users of Face Book and Internet users. Conclusion: According to the results, reducing the time of using Face Book leads to improving welfare of the society. It is recommended to offer required educational facilities for amending lifestyle especially personality traits of Narcissism for improving individual and social relations.
mehdi arabzadeh; parvin kadivar; ali delavar
Volume 3, special , March 2015, , Pages 71-82
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teaching self-regulated learning strategies on students’ social problem solving. Method: The sample size consisted of 50 high school students, divided into 25 students in the experimental and 25 in the control group using a random cluster ...
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teaching self-regulated learning strategies on students’ social problem solving. Method: The sample size consisted of 50 high school students, divided into 25 students in the experimental and 25 in the control group using a random cluster multiple-stage sampling type. The measurement tool consisted of Social problem solving inventory D’Zurilla, Nezu, and Maydeu-Olivares (2002) that was executed as a pre-test in both groups. Then, only the experimental group underwent a training program of self-regulated learning strategies for 15 sessions. After the training, a post-test using the aforementioned scale was taken from both groups. Data was analyzed by calculating the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and T-test. Results: The results indicated that teaching self-regulation learning strategies had a significant and stable effect on students’ social problem solving ability. Conclusions: Teaching self-regulated learning strategy enables students decide better on social and academic issues. It also helps them to be more accurate in learning process and thinking, and to believe that they have the ability to solve problems.
Aliasghar Kakojoibari; Fahimeh Amini; Mahnaz Aliakbari Dehkordi
Volume 7, Issue 1 , August 2018, , Pages 75-90
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Introduction: The purpose of present research is the investigation the effectiveness of Working memory training on attention functions of students with dyslexia learning disabilities. Method: The methodology is experimental, with pre-test and post-test with control group and the statistical community ...
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Introduction: The purpose of present research is the investigation the effectiveness of Working memory training on attention functions of students with dyslexia learning disabilities. Method: The methodology is experimental, with pre-test and post-test with control group and the statistical community involves, male and female students with learning disabilities in second to fifth elementary grade with dyslexia learning disability at schools in the Central Province between 92 to 93 were enrolled,with 32 students were selected by cluster random sampling.and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, tools used in this research were Demographic questionnair, working memory training software, software Stroop Test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children four, Reading and Dyslexia Testthe research data were analyzed with, multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). Results: The results showed, after performing working memory training software in the test group,between experimental and control groups, given the scale of function in the Stroop test, improved significantly. Conclusion: The results showed that working memory training, is used to improve attentional functions of students dyslexia learning disabilities and it can be used as an effective method.
Reza Pishghadam; Shima Ebrahimi; Imanollah Bigdeli
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Objective: Depending on the frequency of encounters and the sense induced emotions, people develop different conceptualizations of a phenomenon. Method: The authors of the present study, therefore, have utilized the concept of emotioncy to introduce the emotioncy profile, in which emotions about a given ...
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Objective: Depending on the frequency of encounters and the sense induced emotions, people develop different conceptualizations of a phenomenon. Method: The authors of the present study, therefore, have utilized the concept of emotioncy to introduce the emotioncy profile, in which emotions about a given concept and their frequencies can be considered as a propel to produce motivation at individual and social levels. This emotioncy profile can be further categorized into EMOTIONcy (emotion>frequency), emotionCY (emotion<frequency), and EMOTIONCY (emotion=frequency), based on which people may experience different levels of motivation and immersion. The results of the present study indicate that at the EMOTIONcy level, emotions can be so affective that they move individuals from exvolvement to involvement.Also, if a person has positive emotions about a concept, it increases flow, which consequently leads to willingness to repeat and positive attitudes. Contrarily, negative emotions can lead to extreme avoidance, demotivation, and negative attitudes. Conclusion: The normal situation is the time when emotions and senses go hand in hand, creating optimal motivation and immersion. This can lead to congruent attitudes at individual, local, and global levels. Moreover, individual, local, and global attitudes can change when there is no balance between sense and emotion.
