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Psychology - Volume:10 Issue: 1, Winter-Spring 2016

International Journal of Psychology
Volume:10 Issue: 1, Winter-Spring 2016

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1394/11/22
  • تعداد عناوین: 8
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  • Ali Mehdad, Atefe Khoshnami Page 1
    This study investigated the effects of perceived organizational justice components (distributive, procedural and interactional) in predicting employee loyalty to organization. Participants included 197 employees of a big public organization in Tehran, was selected via convenience sampling who completed employee organizational loyalty questionnaire (Kumar and Shekhar, 2012), and perceived organizational justice questionnaire (Niehoff and Moorman, 1993; Moorman, 1991). The data were analyzed by use of Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis, by using SPSS18. The results showed that employee’s loyalty to organization was positively related to perceived organizational justice components (p≤. 01). Furthermore, perceived organizational justice components could explain 32.3 percent of employee organizational loyalty’s variance. Therefore, based on the results it can be concluded that employee loyalty to organization could be enhanced by increasing all components of perceived organizational justice.
    Keywords: organizational loyalty, distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice
  • Nasrin Arshadi, Salehe Piryaei Page 15
    Emotional dissonance resulting from an employee’s emotional labor strategies is usually considered to lead to negative employee's outcomes such as reduced occupational well-being. The purpose of this research was to test the effects of emotional labor strategies (surface acting, deep acting and expression of naturally felt emotions) on occupational well-being considering the mediating role of emotional dissonance. The sample of this research consisted of 150 high school teachers in Isfahan who were selected by the stratified random sampling method. The instruments which used in this study were Teacher Emotional Labor Strategy Scale (TELSS), emotional exhaustion subscale in Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and occupational well-being scale. Structural equation modeling (SEM) through AMOS-22 was used for data analysis. The results indicated that, emotional labor strategies relate significantly to emotional dissonance, and emotional dissonance relates negatively to occupational well-being. In addition, emotional dissonance mediated the effect of all emotional labor strategies on occupational well-being. These findings could be explained by differences in the nature of various emotional labor strategies. Implications for teaching and teacher education are put forward.
    Keywords: emotional labor strategies, emotional dissonance, occupational well, being
  • Javad Hatami, Pegah Nejat, Azadeh Karamali Page 34
    The current study was conducted with the aim of examining the impact of social-cognitive categorization of a victim of aggression on the degree of empathy individuals feel toward him. The innocent victim categorized as an in-group member was hypothesized to evoke the highest empathy, whereas the guilty victim belonging to an out-group was expected to be empathized with the least of all. Participants were 104 Iranian female adults who were sampled form the population of female students at the psychology department of the University of Tehran during 2012-2013. They were randomly assigned to four experimental groups and asked to read scenarios in which one character was the victim of aggression by another. Victims varied with regard to in-group-out-group membership (Iranian vs. Saudi Arabian) and perceived morality (guilty vs. innocent). Participants’ explicit and implicit empathies with the victim were assessed using explicit questions and Implicit Association Test, respectively. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the data. Social-cognitive categorization of the victim had a significant effect on implicit, affective and motor empathies. The innocent Iranian was the victim empathized with the most, while the innocent Arab and the guilty Arab received the same degree of empathy. Participants empathized more with the guilty Iranian than the innocent Arab. Cognitive empathy was not influenced by social-cognitive categorization of the victim. The present findings suggest that compared to perceived morality, the in-group-out-group dimension had a more noticeable impact on empathy, particularly those kinds of empathy more dependent on the evolutionarily ancient systems of the brain.
    Keywords: empathy, group membership, implicit assessment, morality
  • Afshin Salahian Page 52
    Purchasing pirated VCDs/DVDs is a serious and prevalent problem that imposes heavy costs on producer companies in many developing countries, particularly in Iran. The purpose of this research was to propose and test a model that determined the predictors of consumer attitudes and behavioral intentions toward pirated VCDs/DVDs. A research model was established by extending a model used by Wang and et al (2005). Survey sample was 343 students and the Structural Equation Modeling technique was used to test the hypothesized relationships. The main contribution of this paper is to show that consumer intentions to buy pirated products are dependent on the attitudes they have toward them which in turn is further influenced by social influence, unethical behavior, and novelty seeking. This paper reinforces the mediator role of attitude in the relationship between these antecedents and behavioral intentions, and confirms that purchasing these products is an unethical behavior. This research informs policy makers and managers about the main predictors of consumer attitudes toward pirated VCDs/DVDs and helps them provide antipirated strategies.
    Keywords: unethical behavior, consumer, behavior, pirated VCDs, DVDs, intention, purchasing
  • Monavvar Moradian Sorkhkolaee, Sima Esmaeili Shahmirzadi, Hasan Eftekhar Ardebili, Saharnaz Nedjat, Narges Saiepour Page 82
    The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mental health and social capital among the students of the Medical Sciences Department at Tehran University. This research was a descriptive analytic study which considered 400 whose average age was 23±3. The Bullen’s questionnaire and general health questionnaire were used for collecting the data and logistic regression was utlized to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that 52.25% of the participants were healthy. In addition, the results of hypothesis testing showed that there was not any significant relationship between mental health and social capital. However, there was a significant relationship between the age difference with dimensions of anxiety and sleep disorder. The odds ratio showed that with an increase in age each year, the chance of suffering from anxiety and sleep disorder was also increased by.88. Finally, it appeared that the coming of graduation time and worrying about future professional and educational life might create anxiety and disorders with an increase of age among students of the Medical Sciences Department.
    Keywords: social capital, mental health, students, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
  • Loghman Ebrahimi, Neda Varghaei, Khadijeh Bispar, Asie Eftekhari Page 100
    The main goal of this study was to design a model to empower school counselors. The sample included 370 subjects. Interviews and researcher-designed questionnaires were used for data collection. The analysis is based on the data obtained and the parameters of interest in the initial model. There was another questionnaire used to validate the model. The quantitative results ofmulti-variable regression analysis indicated that the correlations between Intrapersonal, Meta-personal and Interpersonal factors with traumatic factors were equal to. 296. The coefficient of determination was. 088 which means these three variables together explained 8. 8 percent of the traumatic variable variance. The severity of the impact and significance of the coefficient of determination was also significant (p=. 05، β =. 124). The qualitative findings revealed that interpersonal factors more than other factors predict the vulnerability of the counseling activities. This suggests that among the types of traumas, the most traumasare related to the interpersonal counseling activities of school counselors’ performance. Accordingly, the development and introduction of a performance improvement model for the school counselors can lead to empowerment of school counselors.
    Keywords: schoolcounseling activities, traumatic factors, empowerment of school counselors
  • Mohsen Golparvar, Ehsan Sadeghi, Elham Estabraghi, Hamed Sarhangpour Page 118
    Negative work–family spillover is one of the most important and disturbingfactors for the staff in health organizations. With focus to the moderating role of political skills, the main purpose of this research was to study the role of work–family spillover in psychosomatic complaints due to the moderating role of political skills. This research used correlational methodology with a sample of two hundred forty five staff from an industrial company in Esfahan, Iran. The research instruments included work–family spillover questionnaire, political skillsscale, and psychosomatic complaint questionnaire. Data was analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. The results showed a negative and significant relationship between work–family spillover and political skills. In addition, a positive and significant relationship between work–family spillover and psychosomatic complaints was also found. The results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that in those with low political skills, a significant relationship exists between spillover into the children and housework areas and psychosomatic complaints, while no such relationship is found in those with high political skills.
    Keywords: work, family spillover, psychosomatic complaints, political skills, Iran
  • Nasser Behrozi, Leila Farhadi Motlagh, Manijeh Shehniyeilagh, Mosa Javdan Page 144
    The purpose of the present study was to examine the direct and indirect relationship of emotional intelligence with mental health and academic performance through the mediating role of resiliency and self-efficacy. The population of this research consists of all the first-grade students of Medical Sciences in Jundi Shapur Medical University in 2012-2013 academic years. From this population, a sample consisting of 314 students were selected using stratified random sampling method. The research instruments were Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS), Resilience Inventory (CDRIS), General Self-efficacy Questionnaire (SA-GSEQ), and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). The data were analyzed by path analysis, SPSS-18 and AMOS-7 software. The results showed that direct relationships of emotional intelligence with resiliency, emotional intelligence with self-efficacy, emotional intelligence with mental health, and self-efficacy with mental health were significant. But, direct relationships of resiliency with academic performance, resiliency with mental health, emotional intelligence with academic performance and self-efficacy with academic performance were not significant. In addition, the results indicated that the indirect relationship of emotional intelligence with academic performance by the mediating role of resiliency and self-efficacy was not significant. But, the indirect relationship between emotional intelligence with mental health by the mediating role of resiliency and self-efficacy was significant.
    Keywords: emotional intelligence, resiliency, self, efficacy, mental health, academic performance