eghbal zarei; maryam mobbasser; shiringol karimpour
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The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of training anger management according to cognitive approach on the impulsivity in bully male students’. it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up design. The statistical population ...
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The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of training anger management according to cognitive approach on the impulsivity in bully male students’. it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up design. The statistical population included first high school bully male students in the city of Bandar Abbas in academic year 2-19-20. 30 bully male students were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15 students). The experimental group received eight seventy-five-minute intervention sessions of training anger management according to cognitive approach (Shokouhi Yekta, Kakabaraei, 2017) during a month. 2 students from the experimental group and 3 from the control group went out of the study. The applied questionnaires in this study included Illinois Bullying Scale (IBS), and Barratt Impulsivity scale (BIS). The data from the study were analyzed through Mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. the results showed that training anger management according to cognitive approach has significant effect on the impulsivity in bully male students’ (p<0.001). according to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that training anger management according to cognitive-behavioral approach can be applied as an efficient method to decrease impulsivity in bully male students’ through focusing on anger management skills, practical techniques of anger management and cognitive self-teaching.
Hashem Jebraeili
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Background: Procrastination or voluntary delay in doing an important and necessary activity, despite the expected negative consequences that outnumber the positive consequences of delay, is a common phenomenon in the modern society. On the basis of various data, procrastination affects 20 to 95 percent ...
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Background: Procrastination or voluntary delay in doing an important and necessary activity, despite the expected negative consequences that outnumber the positive consequences of delay, is a common phenomenon in the modern society. On the basis of various data, procrastination affects 20 to 95 percent of adults in western countries and studying this phenomenon is very important.Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties and the factor structure of temporal focus scale and to study the mediating role of temporal focus in the relationship between procrastination and impulsivity- delay discounting.Methods: Four hundred people (279 females and 121 males) were selected through convenience sampling from universities of Kermanshah (west of Iran). They were evaluated by questionnaires of impulsivity, monetary-choice, pure procrastination, and temporal focus. Data were analyzed based on Cronbach's alpha test, intra-class and Pearson correlation tests, exploratory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling using SPSS and Mplus software.Results: The results showed that the reliability of the temporal focus scale was appropriate using all three measures of internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.91), split-half reliability (Guttman split-half coefficient = 0.90), and test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation = 0.78). Exploratory factor analysis led to the expected three-factor structure. The proposed model fitted well with the data. Temporal focus, urgency, and delay discounting had direct effects, and urgency and lack of perseverance had indirect effects (due to temporal focus) on procrastination.Conclusion: The Persian version of the temporal focus scale has acceptable validity and reliability, and given the little time it takes to be filled out, it can be a proper tool to be used in various situations. Temporal focus, especially focusing on the past, plays a unique role in negligence, and a closer examination of this variable may help to better understand the underlying mechanisms of procrastination.