The effectiveness of individual and group cognitive-behavioral therapies on depression decrease and ejection fraction increase in coronary heart disease
چنگیز
رحیمی
هیات علمی دانشگاه شیراز
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2016
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Depression as a usual disorder in coronary heart disease decreases mental health and ejection fraction of these patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of individual and group cognitive-behavioral therapies on depression decrease and ejection fraction increase in coronary heart disease, and to compare the two psychotherapy methods. Subjects were coronary heart disease patients between ages of 30 to 60 with medium or severe depression. The subjects were randomly assigned to three matched groups, including two experimental groups for individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (n=20) and group cognitive-behavior therapy (n=16) and a control group (n=20). The control group received no psychological treatment. The patients were selected using available sampling method. All participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II, as well as, Ejection Fraction Test as pre-tests and post-tests. Data was analyzed using repeated measures and Scheffé test. Individual and group cognitive-behavioral therapies had significant effects on depression reduction, but they had no effect on ejection fraction increase in coronary heart disease patients. Regarding to depression reduction, there was no significant difference between the two methods. Individual and group cognitive-behavioral therapies can reduce the rate of depression and lessen the need to psychiatric drugs in coronary heart disease patients.
Psychological Achievements
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_15589_ab24be88770765d78c0bbdfd440477de.pdf
Studying the effectiveness of Cochran's Career Narrative Therapy on academic procrastination of blind students
اسماعیل
محمدی
دانشگاه اصفهان
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پریسا
نیلفروشان
دانشگاه اصفهان
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محمد رضا
عابدی
دانشگاه اصفهان
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2016
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The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of Cochran's career narrative therapy on academic procrastination of blind students. This is a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of the study was all of blind students in University of Isfahan and Islamic Azad University of Khorasgan. 30 students were selected by using available sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (each group consisted of 15 students). The experimental group participated in seven sessions weekly (each session lasted 3 hours). The data was gathered by using Academic Procrastination Questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS-21. The results of the covariance analysis showed that narrative therapy decreased procrastination, in preparing for tests, and academic tasks (p < .05). However, it increased the tendency to change and negative feelings(p < .05). In addition, there was no significant difference between the two groups in preparing articles. Eventually, Cochran's narrative therapy can be used as an effective method for decreasing procrastination of blind students.
Psychological Achievements
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_12349_513d36fffaa5556254246cfb017dafdc.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22055/psy.2016.12349
Designing and testing a model of the casual relationships between personality traits of sociotropy/autonomy, perception of stressful events and depression symptoms in Shahid Chamran University students
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Mohamadzadeh
دانشجوی دکترای روانشناسی، دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
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Neissi
استاد دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
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Arshadi
دانشیار دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
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Shehni Yailagh
استاد دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
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Mehrabizadeh Honarmand
استاد دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
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The purpose of the presentstudy was designing and testing a model of the casual relationshipsbetween sociotropy/autonomy, perception of stressful events and depressionsymptoms. Hypothesized model, includessociotropy and autonomy as precedents, perception of interpersonal andachievement stressful events as mediators, and depression symptoms as outcomesvariables. The sample consisted of 357 participants (123 male and 234 female)of undergraduate students at Shahid Chamran University who were selected using stratified randomsampling method. The researchinstruments were Revised Personal Style Inventory(PSI-II), Life Experiences Survey (LES) and Beck Depression Inventory(second edition ((BDI-II).Structural equation modeling (SEM) through AMOS-18 and SPSS-18 softwarepackages was used for data analysis. Bootstrap procedure was used forestimating the indirect effects. The primary analysis indicated thathypothesized model has a poor fit with the data. Better fit was achievedby applying some modifications in the final model
Psychological Achievements
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_12355_691d9e91691a708e7c9672c022d77e43.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22055/psy.2016.12355
The mediating role of cognitive avoidance and anxiety in the relationship between negative perfectionism and procrastination
رقیه
محمودزاده
دانشگاه خوارزمی
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شهرام
محمدخانی
دانشگاه خوارزمی
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2016
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Perfectionism as a stable personalitycharacteristic that influences various aspects of human life in a complex way.Several studies show that perfectionists reduce their anxiety by doingprocrastinating behaviors. So, the purpose of this study was to investigate themediating role of cognition avoidance and anxiety as cognitive factors in therelationship between perfectionism and procrastination. For this purpose, asample of 278 undergraduate, master and doctoral students (118 male and 160female), with a mean age of 25.4 and standard deviation of 5.50 from five stateuniversity were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. In order to collectdata, students answered Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS),Solomon and Rothblum Academic Procrastination Scale, DASS-21 Scale and CognitionAvoidance. In order to analyze data, structural equation modeling (SEM) has beenused. The results showed that there were significant and positive causalrelationships between perfectionism, anxiety and procrastination and themediating role of cognition avoidance, indirectly through anxiety in therelationship between perfectionism and procrastination has been verified. Thuswhen cognition avoidance causes more anxiety in people who are perfectionist,this leads to more procrastination.
Psychological Achievements
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_12358_98c280715446d3697e70cd3d37a4e72c.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22055/psy.2016.12358
Structural equation modeling of the relationship between school climate and collective efficacy with personal efficacy of teachers’ of primary schools
حسنعلی
ویس کرمی
استادیار گروه روان شناسی تربیتی دانشگاه لرستان
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عزت اله
قدم پور
استادیار گروه روانشناسی تربیتی دانشگاه لرستان
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MohammadReza
Mottaghinia
آموزش و پرورش-معلم
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2016
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This study was carried out to design a model forteacher personalefficacy from school climate and teacher collective efficacy - socialvariables.In this study, 255 teachers from elementary schoolsin Bajestan city were selected with multistage random sampling method.Instruments of the study were Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (Short form),School Climate Index and Collective Teacher Belief Scale. Results of the studyshowed that all absolute, comparative and parsimonious fit indices weresuitable for the supposed model. According to this model, indirect path fromschool climate towards teacher personal efficacy, via collective teacherefficacy, was positive and significant. Also direct path from collectiveteacher efficacy towards teacher personal efficacy and direct path from schoolclimate towards teacher collective efficacy were positive and significant, too.Results of current study showed the importance of mediation of collectiveteacher efficacy in relationship between school climate and personal teacherefficacy, indicating the neccessity of group activites among school teachers.
Psychological Achievements
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_12359_763ccfc32989dee462799655972041fe.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22055/psy.2016.12359
Evaluation of state-trait anxiety and difficulties in emotion regulation: Based on personality dimensions of sensitivity to punishment and sensitivity to reward
سهراب
امیری
دانشگاه ارومیه
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Mikaeli Manee
دانشیار دانشگاه ارومیه
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2016
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Theaim of the present studywas to investigatethe state-trait anxiety and difficultiesin emotion regulation basedon personality dimensions of sensitivity to punishment (SP) and sensitivity toreward (SR). For this purpose, participants were male students in UrmiaUniversity, who were selected by their extreme scores on the Sensitivity to Punishmentand Reward Sensitivity Questionnaire and were assigned to four groups: Highsensitivity to punishment (HSP), low sensitivity to punishment (LSP), highsensitivity to reward (HSR) and low sensitivity to reward (LSR). Then, State-TraitAnxiety and Difficulties in EmotionRegulation Questionnairewere administered to each personality group (individually).Thecollected data were analyzed by using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA),one-way ANOVA and post hoc tests. Results showed that there were asignificantdifferences between the four groupsbased onstate-trait anxiety and difficulties in emotion regulation.Itseems that high sensitivity to punishment (HSP) associatedwith moreexperienced anxiety and more difficultiesin emotion regulation.
Psychological Achievements
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_12360_ac8b380c645305eeeb85c8baed435207.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22055/psy.2016.12360
Investigating some predictors and outcomes of flow at work in Maroon oil and gas production company’s personnel
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Bryaji
دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
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Nami
دانشیار دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
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سید اسماعیل
هاشمی
عضو هیات علمی
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2016
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The aim of this research was to determine the role of transformational leadershipand job resources in predicting flow at work and the relationship of flow at work with psychologicalwell-being and creativity. The statisticalpopulation comprised of all employees of Maroon oil and gas Production Company, that 221 ofthem have been selected by simple random sampling method. The instruments were Flowat Work (Bakker, 2008), Job Resources (Xanthopoulou, 2007), General Transformational Leadership(Carless, Wearing andMann, 2000), Psychological Well-being (Ryff, 1989) and Organizational Creativity(Zhou and George, 2001). A correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyzdata. The results showed that transformational leadership and job resources had positive andsignificant role in predicting the flow at work respectively. In addition flow at work and its componentshad positive and significant relationships with psychological well-being and organizational creativity. Theresults of regression analysis showed that absorption to job and work enjoyment predictedpsychological well-being and organizational creativity more strongly.
Psychological Achievements
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_12361_6eb82694646a84193d58e0534a621930.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22055/psy.2016.12361
The effectiveness of training forgiveness therapy on controlling anger of students
محمد
غسگری
دانشگاه ملایر
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مریم
کاظمی
اداره آموزش و پرورش سامن
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حمید
علیزاده
دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
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2016
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The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of training forgiveness therapy on controlling anger among the female high school students. The population was students living in Tehran in 2009-2010. Through multi-stage sampling method, 50 students were selected and randomly assigned to 2 groups of experimental and control. In order to test the hypothesis of the study, the quasi-experimental design of pre-test and post-test, with control group, was used and the extent of anger in the students was measured with the Spiel Berger State-Trait Anger Size (STAXI-2). Then the experimental group received 10 sessions of 90 minute training in forgiveness therapy. The use of MANOVA showed that training forgiveness therapy affected the control of anger among the female high school students. Training forgiveness therapy also affected subscales of state anger, trait anger, and anger expression in female high school students. However, it had no effect on subscales of anger expression-out, anger control-out and anger control-in. Therefore, it can be concluded that the training of forgiveness therapy has effects on controlling anger in female students, and can be effectively used for the treatment of anger and aggression.
Psychological Achievements
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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2016
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https://psychac.scu.ac.ir/article_12362_68b9ff2929a981427fe0a257552442a8.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22055/psy.2016.12362