Social Pathology
Elham Tavasli; Tayebeh Sharifi; Reza Ahmadi
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Background: Today, psychologists have come to the conclusion that treatment without considering spirituality will not be effective. But it should be noted that for people who have understood religion and its position, acquiring spirituality is achieved more reliably through religion. Divine religions, ...
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Background: Today, psychologists have come to the conclusion that treatment without considering spirituality will not be effective. But it should be noted that for people who have understood religion and its position, acquiring spirituality is achieved more reliably through religion. Divine religions, especially Islam, provide practical recommendations for human connection with the infinite being in every way. Man's relationship with God is at the peak of spirituality and in this way, spiritual experiences and indescribable pleasures are obtained. The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of self-determination skills training and Islamic quality of life training on perceived social support and psychological well-being of primary caregivers of chronic mental patients in Borujen city. Material & Method: This research was an applied research and in terms of method, it was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test-follow-up plan and a control group. The statistical population included all the main caregivers of chronic mental patients in Borujen city, under the supervision of welfare and rehabilitation centers of Borujen city, whose number is 550 people. In this research, 60 primary caregivers of chronic mental patients were selected using available sampling method and then randomly assigned to two experimental groups (self-determination skills training and Islamic quality of life training) and a control group. In order to carry out the research in the first stage, the necessary coordination was made with the General Welfare Department of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province. The necessary permission to implement the program, i.e. the self-determination skills training program and the Islamic quality training program and the implementation of two questionnaires including perceived social support and psychological well-being, was received; Then, in the pre-test phase, questionnaires of perceived social support and psychological well-being were administered to all three groups, then in a three-month intervention for 19 90-minute sessions of an experimental group, a training package of self-determination skills (Field & Hoffman, 2012) and training Islamic quality of life (Seifi et al., 2015), and after the interventions, the participants of all three groups answered questionnaires of perceived social support and psychological well-being (post-test). Finally, after two months, the aforementioned questionnaires were collected from the research participants. mResearch tools included multidimensional scale of perceived social support and Psychological Well-Being Scales. Data analysis was done with the method of analysis of variance with repeated measurements using SPSS-22 software. Results: The results showed that the effectiveness of self-determination skills training and Islamic quality of life group training on increasing perceived social support was significant (P<0.05) and the effect size was 0.66, respectively, and the effectiveness of Islamic quality of life group training was more than training was self-determination skills. Also, the effectiveness of self-determination skills training and Islamic quality training on increasing psychological well-being was significant (P<0.05) and the effect size was 0.12, respectively, and the effectiveness of Islamic life quality training was more than self-determination skills training. Conclusion: The group method of teaching self-determination skills and the quality of Islamic life have a significant effect on the level of perceived social support and psychological well-being. Teaching self-determination skills and Islamic quality of life increased perceived social support and psychological well-being of caregivers of chronic neurological and mental patients. Also, the effectiveness of Islamic quality of life training on perceived social support and psychological well-being has been higher than the effectiveness of self-determination skills training.
N. Moradi; A.R. Hajiyakhchali; Z. Morovati
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the causal relationships between time management and perceived social support, and psychological well-being and academic performance, mediated by academic stress and academic self-efficacy in female university students. The sample consisted of 300 students ...
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the causal relationships between time management and perceived social support, and psychological well-being and academic performance, mediated by academic stress and academic self-efficacy in female university students. The sample consisted of 300 students who were selected by a multistage random sampling method. The implemented research instruments were the time management inventory and the Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being, the inventory of academic self-efficacy and academic stress and perceived social support. The analysis technic used was structural equation modeling. The bootstrap method was used for the examination of indirect relations. The results showed the significance of the indirect path of perceived social support and time management with academic performance through academic self- efficacy, while perceived social support and time management were significant with academic performance through academic stress. A better fit was obtained by omitting nonsignificant paths, academic stress with psychological well-being and time with psychological well- being.
B. Ghobari Bonab; M. Rafiekhah; M. Mohajerani
Volume 21, Issue 1 , June 2014, , Pages 1-14
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Distressful events can either lead to post traumatic stress disorders or post traumatic growth depending on individual’s characteristics or the magnitude of environmental and social supports. The current study was conducted to investigate the relation between attachment to God, Perceived social ...
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Distressful events can either lead to post traumatic stress disorders or post traumatic growth depending on individual’s characteristics or the magnitude of environmental and social supports. The current study was conducted to investigate the relation between attachment to God, Perceived social support, and post traumatic growth in mothers of children with physical disabilities. To fulfill the stated goal 108 mothers of children with physical disabilities who had experienced at least one traumatic event were selected by means of accessible sampling procedure and the following measures were given to them to respond as honestly as they could: Attachment to God inventory, perceived social support, and post traumatic growth (PTG). Results showed that between a secure attachment to God and two subdomains of social support (i.e. family support, and support of special individuals) and feelings of short comings with post traumatic growth a significant relationship existed. Results indicated that a secure attachment of God and social supports were two important variables that effect post traumatic growth in people with changing individuals reactions and interpretation of daily incidences.
A. Neissi; N. Arshadi; F. Shahbazi
Volume 18, Issue 2 , December 2011, , Pages 39-60
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of workplace characteristics and perceived social support on turnover intention, with mediating role of job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion. Survey respondents include 309 employees from the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) in Ahvaz ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of workplace characteristics and perceived social support on turnover intention, with mediating role of job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion. Survey respondents include 309 employees from the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) in Ahvaz that were chosen by simple random sampling method. The research instruments were Perceived Job Security Scale, Trust in Senior Management Scale, Perceived Distributive Justice Scale, Information Sharing Scale, Perceived Social Support Scale, Job Satisfaction Scale, Emotional Exhaustion Scale and Turnover Intention Scale. The fitness of the proposed model was examined through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), using SPSS-16 and AMOS-16 software packages. The indirect effects were tested by using Baron and Kenny's (1986) method and bootstrap procedure in Preacher and Hayse (2008) Macro program. The findings indicated that the proposed model fitted the data. Better fit and more meaningful results were obtained by omitting 5 non significant paths and using AMOS modification indices. Results revealed that job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion mediate relationships between workplace characteristics and perceived social support with turnover intention.
