فصلنامه علوم روانشناختی
پیاپی 38 (تابستان 1390)

Everyone can expect a healthy aging and it emphasize the concept of aging and the prevention consequential problem. Sporting participation plays a critical role in establishing a mental and physical balance to pass the aging period. Due to population growth in recent as well as reaching at a higher life expectancy we are going to have a big number of aged people in country. To have happy society to enjoy suitable health factor it is quite necessary to conduct well-objectified research about the sporting participators of aged people. This research aim at presenting a conceptual a model for recognizing main dimension of sporting participation of aged people. Alongside will studying the importance of each one of the factors. Therefore reading the previous research. Thirty-tow influence of influential variables was readied. Then, the first questionnaire was distributed among the university teaches athletes and sport experts to identify nineteen relevant variable affecting sporting participation of aged people. In the next step the second questionnaire was distributed among male aged athletes of Tehran; the data was collected and in order to identify main affecting factors, the factor analysis statistical model was used. Furthermore, to prioritize the variable, the third questionnaire including paired computing table were prepared and the outcome data was recognized by GAHP method.

The purpose of this study was to compare sensation seeking and big five personality factors between internet dependent and non-dependent students. Hence, sample of 179 undergraduate students (109 female and 70 male) were selected from University of Tehran using cluster sampling and based on upper and lower limits, 29 students from internet dependent group and29 students from non-dependent group were investigated. Internet Addiction Test (IAT, Young, 1998), Sensation Seeking Scale form V (Zuckerman, 1978) and the NEO-PI-R Questionnaire (Costa and McCrae, 1992) were used as instruments. According to the findings, sensation seeking of internet dependents was significantly (P<0.001) different from non-dependents. Internet dependents showed significantly higher scores on subscales of thrill and adventure seeking (P<0.05), disinhibition and boredom susceptibility (P<0.001) compared with non-dependents.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between occupational burnout, emotional adaptation, and mental health on University of Tehran staff. The subjects of the study were 186 staff of the University of Tehran, using a random clustering sample design were chosen and were administered questionnaires pertinent to Maslach Burnout Inventory(MBI), The Bar- On Emotional Quotient Inventory(EQ-I), and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Result showed that there is a significant difference between two groups of normal and abnormal staff (separating on the basis of cutoff score of the mental health questionnaire) based upon occupational burnout and component of emotional adaptation. Regression analysis results indicated that mental health and emotional adaptation could predict occupational burnout. Prediction equation Coefficients for various dimensions of variables was reported. To investigate the overall relationship between dimensions of emotional adaptation and mental health with occupational burnout fundamental correlation was used. The results showed that all of the three fundamental correlations were significant.

We examined the relation between mental rotation as a cognitive ability and handedness in students of medicine, Engineering and humanism in both sex. 161 students (69 female and 93 male) of three faculty of University of Tehran was examined by Vandenberg mental rotation test and Edinburg handedness Questioner. There was correlation between handedness and mental rotation in lefthanders also medicine and engineering students were in upper level than human science. There were no differences between male and females. At the end we discussed about results.

The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship of alexithymia, physical neglect/abuse with academic achievement and discipline. The research sample consisted of subjects 200 who were selected from among students of high schools through cluster random sampling method.

The purpose of the present research was to investigate the relationship between dimensions of Short Message Service SMS using and perceived social support in sample of university student. The sample group was included 287 students (210girls, 77 boys) that have been chosen via multistage random sampling method, and were studied

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the university students’ viewpoints about the reasons for emerging teenagers’ awareness and tendencies towards Satanism. By random sampling method 342 students from Medical, Engineering, and Humanities (theology) have been selected and a researcher-made questionnaire had been given them for gathering data. The questionnaire was made based on the literature review of the study.