Ebadollah Toyari; Saeed Bakhtiarpour; Reza Pasha; mohammadReza Borna
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The aim of this study was to design and test the pattern of the effect of mental-spirtual transformation and social support on marital happiness considering the mediating role of emotional regulation in parents of exceptional children. In this descriptive-correlational study, all the parents of exceptional ...
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The aim of this study was to design and test the pattern of the effect of mental-spirtual transformation and social support on marital happiness considering the mediating role of emotional regulation in parents of exceptional children. In this descriptive-correlational study, all the parents of exceptional children of Khuzestan privince in year 2019 constituted the research population. From this population, 234 people were selected through convenience sampling method. In this study, mental-spirtual transformation, social support, marital happiness and emotional regulation were used for data collection in this study. The proposed model was evaluated using a path analysis method. Bootstrap test was used to test the indirect relationships. The results of this study showed that all direct paths social support with marital happiness were significant. Indirect pathways were also significant through emotional regulation with marital happiness. The proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the result and an important step in recognizing the effective factors in the marital happiness of parents of exceptional children and can be useful as a model for designing and stress management programs and increased marital happiness for this parents.
parvaneh nahravanian; Parviz Askari; Fariborz Dortaj; Farah Naderi; saeed bakhtiarpoor
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectivenessof cognitive training on the executive function and divided attention of anxious children. The present study was designed as a semi-experimental research design, using the purposeful randomized sampling method. According to the research ...
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectivenessof cognitive training on the executive function and divided attention of anxious children. The present study was designed as a semi-experimental research design, using the purposeful randomized sampling method. According to the research criteria, 38 anxious children whose age was from 8 to 9 years old, were selected and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The research instruments included Clinical Interviewing, Raven's Intelligence Test, to match the participants, Apparent Anxiety of the Children, London Tower Executive Function Test and Selective and Divided Attention. At the beginning, the Executive Function, Focused and Divided Attention Test, were administered to all the participants. The experimental group received training in 10 sessions of 45 minutes in 5 weeks. At the post-test the instruments were administered to both groups. The results of the study showed a significant effect of cognitive training on the total time, planning time, and experimental time. Total results also showed that there was a significant impact on commission, omission, correct response, and response time of attention. According to the results, cognitive training had a significant effect on the improvement of the executive function and divided attention of anxious children. The results also clarified the role of intervention-based games in cognitive processes
