فصلنامه روانشناسی
سال بیستم شماره 3 (پیاپی 79، پاییز 1395)

The aim of study was to examine the brain regional activity based on anxiety and impulsivity during meta-cognitive processing. Six hundred female students in Tarbiat Modares University completed the Meta-cognition Questionnaire, Cognitive Failures Questionnaire and Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. According to scores in extraversion and neuroticism dimensions, 4 groups including Anx, Anx-, Imp and Imp- (each group 15 subjects) were selected. EEG was recorded during 4 conditions including rest, performing the Stroop, performing the Wisconsin and performing the Attention Training Technique. The results showed that meta-cognitive processing in Anx- was better than Anx. Better quality of meta-cognitive processing in Imp- than Imp was not shown. Other findings suggested that when meta-cognitive processing, Anx was higher than Anx- in the activity of right pre-frontal and frontal of both hemispheres, also Imp was higher in the activity of pre-frontal and frontal of both hemispheres than Imp-. In general, this study highlighted the role of executive functions in meta-cognitive processing, discusses the relationship among meta-cognitive processing, anxiety, impulsivity and brain regional activities.

The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of anger management training in reduction of anger management in students with intellectual disability. This study was a single subject design which is conducted with three students with intellectual disability. Three students with age range of 18 - 19 were selected from pre-vocational school male students in seven to nine graders that were studying in Sepehr School in Bojnord during the 2013 academic year. The individuals were selected because of showing behavioral problems in the class, and endorsement of school principal of their aggressive behaviors and completion of Buss and Perry (1992) Questionnaire by mothers, and not having other disabilities such as sensory, visual and auditory impairments as well as physical disability. Moreover these students were not participating in other programs. during nine sessions twice a week. The assessments were performed two sessions before and after anger management training program. The applied tools in this study included Buss and Perry’ Questionnaire, Social Validity of the Questionnaire, (Martens, Witt, Elliot & Darveaux, 1985) was adequate. Moreover, systematic observation were used. The results showed that interpersonal aggressive behaviors were reduced as a result of intervention. Besides, visual display and effect size of the Percentage of Non-overlapping Data (PND) method and standardized mean difference showed effectiveness of the intervention.

The aim of this study was conducted to compare emotional schemas in individuals with substance abuse and non-addicted people. Two hundred individuals were chosen: one hundred addicted and one hundred non-addicted, and they were matched incontaminating variables including age, educational, and marital status through convenience sampling procedure. Participant completed Leahy Emotional Schema Scale(LESS). Type of study was causal-comparative and data were analyzed using analysis of variance (MANOVA). The results indicate that emotional schemas showed significant difference between addicts and normal people of control group in dimensions of comprehensibility, control, validation, rationality, guilt, simplistic view of emotions and blame. Findings of this research is interpretable that the difference emotional schemas in existed between addicted and non addicted individuals there schema therapy techniques for improving emotional schemes should be an important part of a substance abuse treatment programs.

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of achievement goals and academic procrastination in the relationship between need for closure and academic achievement in the framework of causal path analysis method. For this purpose, 425 students (243 females and 182 males) of Fars Payam Noor University were chosen by means of multistage cluster sampling method. They responded to a self-report questionnaire consisting of need for closure (NFCS), Achievement Goals (AGS), and Academic Procrastination (PASS) scales. The Students’ final scores at the end of the semester were considered as indicators of their academic achievement. Method of the study was descriptive and due to the study of the relationships between variables in the framework of path analysis causal model, correlation research design was used. The results generally demonstrated that need for closure dimensions have indirect negative significant effects on students’ academic achievement through the mediation of achievement goals and academic procrastination. Findings indicated that both dimensions of need for closure (preference for structure and preference for certainty) influence academic achievement negatively, mediated through achievement goals and academic procrastination. Moreover, the results showed that in the fitted model of the study mastery goals have the most direct and positive effect on academic achievement.

The purpose of the present study was the prediction of love trauma syndrome based on the attachment styles and differentiation of self among students who have experienced love break up in Ahwaz universities. The present research method was correlational. The participants of the study were 200 females students who have experienced love break up over a year. The selection of sample population was both purposive sampling and snowball. The instruments for data gathering included the Ross Love Trauma Inventory, the Collin Attachment Style Inventory, and the Skowron and Dendy Differentiation of Self Inventory. For the analysis of the data, discriminant analysis method was used. Results showed that linear combination of the variables of the study could predict love trauma syndrome among females students of universities of Ahwaz. With the usage of step by step method of discriminant analysis, it has been also identified that orders of the most efficient variables were: avoidant attachment style and, emotional turmoil. Investigation of the variables separately showed that from the total of 6 variables, 5 variables including anxious attachment style, avoidant attachment style, emotional reactivity, fusion with others and emotional turmoil were significant predictors of love trauma syndrome among females students of Ahwaz city.

The aim of present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of written emotional disclosure impulsivity and aggression in adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder current study was conducted using a single subject experimental design. Multiple baseline method was used. Based on, diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder according to the fourth edition of Swanson, Nolan and Pelham Rating Scale (SNAP-IV) and entry criteria, three adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder were selected and exposed under written emotional disclosure. In order to assess aggression and impulsivity, Buss & Perry Aggression Questionnaire and Barratt’s Impulsivity Scale were completed by participants at the beginning and during emotional disclosure intervention sessions. The visual inspection of charts, indices of procedure change, slope and effect size indicated substantially reduction in aggression and impulsivity dimensions.

The aim of the current study was to investigate the relation between identity processing styles, and conflict resolution strategies with psychological well-being among pre university students of Tehran. 349 subjects (164 male and 185 female) among students of schools of Tehran have been selected by cluster sampling. In order to collect the following measures were administered: data, the Identity Style Inventory (ISI; Berzonsky, 1993), the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II (ROCI-II; Rahim, 1990), and Ryff 2009) Psychological Well-Being Test. Findings showed that informational style, normative style and commitment had a positive significant relation and diffuse/avoidance style had a negative relation with psychological well-being. Furthermore, among conflict resolution strategies; integrating strategy, obliging strategy, and compromising strategy had a positive correlation and avoiding strategy had a negative correlation with psychological well-being was observed. Also, there was no significant relation between dominating strategy and psychological well being. The results obtained from stepwise regression analysis showed that identity commitment has main role in predicting psychological well-being.