فصلنامه روان شناسی کاربردی
سال ششم شماره 4 (پیاپی 24، زمستان 1391)

Study purpose was to examine effectiveness of group story therapy on reducing hopelessness and loneliness of girls living in family-like centers. Method was quasi-experimental and statistical society included all primary school parentless and mal-treated girls living in family-like centers of Mashhad (125 people in 14 centers). 26 persons were chosen by available method among three eligible of these centers and placed randomly into experimental, sham control and control groups and answered Kazdin children hopelessness scale (1983) and Asher children loneliness scale (1984) in pretest, posttest and one month follow up stages. group story therapy therapy was given experimental group in 10 sessions, two sessions per week, each session, 5/1 h was given in 10 sessions, two sessions per week, each session, 1 fifths hours and data were proceeded by repeated measures analysis of variance. Result showed significant differences among hopelessness mean of experimental group and two other groups from pretest to post test but this difference was not significant from post test to follow- up. There was no significant difference among these three groups loneliness mean from pretest to post test and this situation continued from post test to follow-up. It seems that group story therapy can be useful to reduct hopelessness of children living in the family-like centers.

The purpose of study was to determine and compare the value systems and self-efficacy beliefs of children with veteran and non-veteran fathers. Method was casual-comparative and statistical population was 2620 people, include all female students of veteran families in grades first to third of Shahed high schools in Tehran in year 2011 and 9561 female students from non-veteran families in ordinary schools. Through random cluster sampling were selected 100 female students with veteran father and purposefully matched 100 girls with non-veteran father. Then were administered questionnaires of study of values’ Allport, Vernon and Lindsey (1960), self-efficacy children and adolescents’ Muris (2001) and a demographic information. Results showed that preferred value system in veterans’offspring was social values and in non-veterans’offspring was economic value. Relationship between fathers’ injuries severity was a significant negative with economic values and all components of self-efficacy. Low levels of self-efficacy beliefs in academic and emotional dimensions of veterans’ children may be caused by injury problems in father. Thus providing early psychological services for veteran families, especially children's health promotion can be effective in strengthening the system of values and self-efficacy beliefs in injured veteran fathers’ children.

Aim of this study was to examine efficacy of repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in reducing craving in meta-amphetamine users. Method was quasi-experimental, single subjects design using with multiple baselines, and statistical society was 1000 meta-amphetamines user who had been referred to the Ateyeh clinic in Tehran in winter of 2011 for addiction abandonment. Among them were selected 8 meta-amphetamine users by the available method. These patients randomly divided into four groups and were replaced in each group two people. With frequency of 10 Hz, 15 sessions, 2 patients received stimulation of the left dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, and 2 people received stimulation of the right dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, two patients received sham stimulation and two patients were in a control group. The Heroin craving questionnaire (Tiffany & Drobes, 1991) and visual analogue scale were completed by all patients before and the end of the fifteenth session and one month after treatment in follow-up period. Data were analyzed using effect size and percent reduction. Results showed repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex right area, significantly reduced patient's cravings for meta-amphetamine, but the left stimulation of this area is not very effective. The effects were lasting one month after treatment. Repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex especially the right area, can be used as an effective treatment for reducing craving in individuals consuming meta-amphetamine.

The purpose of the present study was to compare social cognition abilities in patients with major depressed and matched healthy subjects. The research design was retrospective, causal comparative and the statistical population of this study comprised of 160 patients with major depression disorder in Loghman Hospital in Tehran. In a cross-sectional study, 45 patients with major depression disorder (based on diagnosis by a clinical psychologist or a psychiatrist) were compared with 50 healthy subjects by means of convenient sampling method. Baron-Cohen’s (2001) Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) was used as the research tool. Data were analyzed through Student t-test and Multivariate ANOVA. Findings show significant difference in mind reading test performance in depressed and healthy individuals. Patients with major depression disorder had a significantly poorer performance in positive and neutral criteria of RMET and better performance in negative criteria. Furthermore healthy subjects had better performance in positive and neutral criteria than negative and this pattern was reversed in patients with major depression. Deficit in abilities related to the theory of mind in depressed patients can be considered as a possible cause of cognitive distortion of these patients. Based on the findings of the present study, evaluation and training of social cognition could be considered as a therapeutic technique in depressed patients.

The purpose of this study was survey the effect of cognitive-behavioral intervention on perfectionism and guilt feeling in student.

Field experimental research design and a pretest - posttest control group was used, statistical society was all of students in first half year of 90-91 academic year in Esfahan Daneshpajoohan university. Of 14 sample in the experimental group and 14 sample in the control group were selected through random multistage sampling and also measurement tools is Ahvaz Perfectionism Scale and the Eysenck guilt test which in order made by Najarian, Atari and Zargar(1378) and Eysenck. Statistical method for data analysis was multivariate analysis of covariance.

The result of MANCOVA indicated that cognitive-behavioral inventory significantly reduces perfectionism and guilt feeling. Furthermore, this effect was sustained at one month follow up.

cognitive-behavioral inventory reduces perfectionism and guilt feeling by correcting people’s thought about benefits and harms of perfectionism thought and infrastructure believes. It is suggested that according to the impact of perfectionism in all aspects of individual and social life, affected people be identified in childhood and necessary actions be done about them.

The objective of this research is identification of protective and risk factors in suicide attempts by college students. Research method was correlation analysis and the population included 4564 students of Shahid Beheshti University, 560 sample students of which were elected using Stratified Random Sampling Method and the data was collected using Suicide Risk Scale of Northwest Behavioral Health Research Center (2005) Mentor Research Institute ", 1998, General Health Factors (Goldberg, 1972), Social Support (Bakhshipoor, Piravi and Abediian, 2005) and Coping Strategies (Endler and Parker, 1990) prepared and then analyzed using logistic regression and chance ratio. The results showed that religious beliefs, social support and problem-solving coping strategy effectively decrease and mental problem record, anxiety and depression effectively increase suicide risk. College students with mental problem record were susceptible to suicide risk 8 times more than students without such records. Social support, and mental problem and anxiety and record are effective and powerful in predicting protective and risk factors. Using prediction models we can boost protective factors and control risk factors and eventually use them for primary prevention.

The present study compares social intelligence and emotional intelligence of students according to their handedness. Applied method in the present study is ¬a cause and effect-comparative method and statistical population was included all of Kermanshah university (6 universities), that among them with random multi-stage cluster sampling and three universities of Razi, Azad and Payame noor were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling and among 274 fields of study in these universities 7 fields and among these fields one class was selected and totally 180 students, 90 right- handed and 90 left handed were chosen. Subjects completed three questionnaires namely: Chapman and Chapman handedness test (1987), Thet social intelligence (2008), and Shrink emotional intelligence (1999). Data were analyzed using an independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance. Results indicated that there was a significant relationship between the social and emotional intelligence with handedness (p<0/01). Moreover, among components of emotional intelligence, right-handed students have a higher level of self-awareness, social consciousness and social skills. Results confirmed the effect of hemispheric dominance on social and emotional intelligence of students which has important applications for social and emotional intelligence training in order to improve the operation and social and emotional functionality growth, socio-emotional well-being, especially in left-handed students that has fundamental influence on the educational, occupational and social functioning of individuals and has major role in their success in life.