فصلنامه روانشناسی
سال هفدهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 67، پاییز 1392)

The main aim of the current study is to investigate the different aspects of autobiographical memory and it,s component among people who suffer from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Two groups of trauma survivors following Road Traffic Accident including 20 patients with PTSD as the goal group and 20 individuals who exposed with the same traumatic event but did not met the PTSD criteria (non- PTSD) as the comparison group participated in the study. All participants completed measures of autobiographical remembering, goals, self-concept, self-definition, appraisals, PTSD and depression. The results indicated that the PTSD group has showed significantly higher level of depression and PTSD symptoms. They also tended to remember more general autobiographical content than the non-PTSD group. Additionally, those with PTSD, provided significantly less specific memories and had higher levels of trauma-themed goals, self-statements and self-defining memories than trauma survivors without PTSD.

For investigating conceivability of increasing germane cognitive load and simultaneously decreasing extraneous cognitive load, 60 students of 3rd grade of guidance school were randomly assigned to two experimental groups. The first group studied Thales theorem (as seen in textbook of 3rd grade of guidance school) through incomplete worked examples and the second group in addition to this task, did selfexplanation. Subjects, then, answered to the Cognitive load Measurement Scale the and Transfer-Test Tasks. Data were analyzed through Independent t-test. Data analysis showed that cognitive Load during studying, cognitive load during testing phase, far and near transfer test in the second group (those who did selfexplanation in addition to completing incomplete worked examples) were significantly higher than the first group. It confirms the effectiveness of selfexplanation during study and completion of incomplete worked examples. Findings have useful practical and theoretical implications for professionals of educational and cognitive psychology.

Recent evidences in attachment literature have pointed to the critical role of attachment in affect regulation and cognitive functioning through the selective processing of attachment-relevant information. The purpose of this study was developing and validation of a Dot-Probe Test for measurement of selective attention towards attachment related pictures. the stimulus that used for the dot-probe task comprised of two categories of positive and negative attachment related pictures. Based on these categories and after several phases of screening 275 pictures were selected. Then 50 student and 5 practitioner psychologists rated each picture on pleasant-unpleasant and attachmentrelevance. Finally five picturess of each subscale and a total of 45 pictures that have the highest scores in both features were selected and matched with 45 neutral pictures that had no particular emotional valence. Therefore the dot-probe test was comprised of these 90 pictures. 161 students (86 male and 85 female) of Shahid Beheshti University were selected by convenient sampling method and completed Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and the dot-probe task. Result show high validity of pictures and high reliability of participant answer to dot-probe test. According to the results of this study can be said that designed test is suitable for measurement of automatic features of attachment.

This study was conducted to investigate the relationships of some individual and organizational variables with instigated workplace incivility. Participants were 227 nurses from the hospitals of social security organization in Isfahan province. The instruments consisted of Experienced the Workplace Incivility Scale, Organizational Justice Questionnaire, NEO Personality Inventory, Job- Related Affective Well-being Scale (RJAWS) and Instigated Workplace Incivility Scale. Results indicated that two types of organizational justice (interpersonal justice, informational justice), three personality characteristics (neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness), job affects (positive and negative affects) and experienced workplace incivility were correlated with instigated workplace incivility. Moreover moderated regression analyses, consistent with expectation, showed that neuroticism moderated the relationship between procedural justice and instigated workplace incivility. That is, the relationships between procedural justice and instigated workplace incivility were stronger for individuals high in neuroticism than individuals low in neuroticism. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that predictor variable account for 55.7 percent of variance of instigated workplace incivility.

This research aimed at studying the relationship between D-type personality, cognitive emotion regulation strategies and coronary (CHD) by using structural equation modeling. 100 patients with heart diseases CHD from three Urmia city's heart hospitals were selected using available sampling method,and responded to the D-type Personality Scale, and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies Questionnaires (CERQ). Data analysis was performed using partial least squares structural equation modeling method. The results indicated that self-blame and other-blame dimensions had significant positive effects on coronary heart diseases and positive refocusing and catastrophizing, acceptance had negative effect on CHD. Also the mediatory role of these dimensions in relationship between negative effect and social inhibition with CHD was supported. In general, the result of this study emphasizes on the key role of non biologic factors such as personality and emotion regulation in coronary heart diseases

The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between satisfying the basic psychological needs and achievement goal orientations in high school students. 298 students (142 boys and 156 girls) were selected by multi stage cluster sampling and they filled out the general version of the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Scale (Gagné, 2003), and the Achievement Goal Questionnaire (Elliot & -McGregor, 2001). Multiple regression analysis revealed that satisfying the need of autonomy predicts mastery-approach and performance-avoidance goal orientations. Also, results showed satisfying the need of competency predict mastery-avoidance and performance-avoidance goal orientations. In addition to, satisfying the need of relatedness predicts masteryapproach goal orientation.