V.A. Attari; M. Shehni Yeylagh; A.M. Kochaki; K. Beshlideh
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This is an experimental study with pre test-post test control group design. The main concern of this research is to study how social skills training will affect individual- social adjustment of juvenile delinquents in the Gonbad Kavous prison. The main hypothesis of this study is: social skills training ...
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This is an experimental study with pre test-post test control group design. The main concern of this research is to study how social skills training will affect individual- social adjustment of juvenile delinquents in the Gonbad Kavous prison. The main hypothesis of this study is: social skills training will increase the social adjustment in juvenile delinquents. To do so, we selected randomly 40 juveniles under 18 year from research population. Then, they were divided into two groups of experimental (20 persons) and control group (20 persons). Before intervention, the California Test of Personality (CT?) was administrated to both groups. Then experimental group received social skills training for 10 sessions. One week after the training, the post test was given to both groups. The analysis of results with the use of MANOVA and subsequent ANOVA showed that training in social skills has tremendous effects on juvenile delinquent’s individual- social adjustment (P< 0/001). What has been achieved in this research proved the usefulness of training in social skills to increase the individual- social adjustment.
G. Rajabi; M. Shehni Yeylagh; H. Shokrkon; J. Haghigi
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal relationship between gender, prior math performance, perceived sources of mathematics self-efficacy, goal setting, mathematics self-efficacy, attributional styles, and math performance of high school student in Ahvaz, Iran. The sample for the study ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal relationship between gender, prior math performance, perceived sources of mathematics self-efficacy, goal setting, mathematics self-efficacy, attributional styles, and math performance of high school student in Ahvaz, Iran. The sample for the study consisted of 390 sophomore students (192 boys and 198 girls) who were selected randomly from the high school population in Ahvaz, and had passed math 2 (prior math performance), and were studying math 3 (math performance). Participants were administered the Perceived Sources of Mathematics Self-Efficacy Information Scale (PSMES), the Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (MSES), the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), and the Goal-Setting Scale (OS). Also, the prior and current math grades were obtained from high schools’ archives. In addition to descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation coefficient), the following statistical methods were used to analyze the data: factor analysis, and structural analysis. The primary research question was whether the main model (the relationship between gender, prior math performance, perceived sources of mathematics self-efficacy, goal-setting, mathematics self-efficacy, attributional styles, and math performance) fits the data. In other words, whether the above variables influence math performance. The results indicated that the main model fits but one path (from goal-setting to math performance) was not significant. Also, the path coefficient from mathematics self-efficacy to math performance was negative. The non-significant path, then, was eliminated from the model, and a modified model was formed. The results of testing this modified model showed that it was a better model over the previous one. In short, from nine direct hypotheses only one was not confirmed, and one of them was confirnied in the opposite direction.
M. Shehni Yailagh; A. Movahed; H. . Shokrkon
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This study was conducted to investigate the fitness of structural model of the relationship between religious attitudes and optimism with mental and physical health. The sample consisited of 402 Shahid Chamran University students, studying in the academic year of 2001-2002. The sample was selected randomly. ...
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This study was conducted to investigate the fitness of structural model of the relationship between religious attitudes and optimism with mental and physical health. The sample consisited of 402 Shahid Chamran University students, studying in the academic year of 2001-2002. The sample was selected randomly. The measurements were Arian Religiousness Scale, Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), Symptoms Checklist- 25 Scale and Physical Health Scale. The results of this research indicate that religious attitudes predict optimism, optimism predicts mental health and mental health predicts physical health. Also, religious attitudes predict mental and physical health indirectly and optimism predicts physical health indirectly. This study was conducted to investigate the fitness of structural model of the relationship between religious attitudes and optimism with mental and physical health. The sample consisited of 402 Shahid Chamran University students, studying in the academic year of 2001-2002. The sample was selected randomly. The measurements were Arian Religiousness Scale, Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), Symptoms Checklist- 25 Scale and Physical Health Scale. The results of this research indicate that religious attitudes predict optimism, optimism predicts mental health and mental health predicts physical health. Also, religious attitudes predict mental and physical health indirectly and optimism predicts physical health indirectly.
