فصلنامه مشاوره شغلی و سازمانی
پیاپی 18 (بهار 1393)

This research was carried out to study the Comparing of coping stress strategies and self –concept between Married educated women with job and without job in 2013. The method of this research was a comparative analysis study. Participants were 200 Married educated women. 100 of them had job and 100 rests of them were jobless. They answered to coping stress & self-concept questioners. For analysis the data were stem from the research applied statistical methods, included; mean, standard deviation, T-Test for independent groups, Pearson correlation. The results indicated that there was significant difference between two groups of participants in coping stress strategies (included; problem focused coping, Emotional Focused coping, & Less usefulness coping) and self-concept scores. The group of Married educated women with job had problem focused coping strategies and also, had more positive self-concept than the Married educated women without job. Furthermore, the findings revealed that there were significant relationship between coping stress strategies and self-concept among Married educated women with job and without job. The results suggested that have job could be playing positive role in women’s life. In addition, people with job can experience new situations and challenging conditions that facing them at job and social roles. All of them could be guided them to applied positive and effective coping strategies in their daily life and help them to have positive self-concept about their self and whole world.

career adaptability is defined as a multidimensional construct which is linked with people capacity, in order to successful change and transfers, and such a capacity has been formed gradually in the family, since childhood. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between attachment styles and career adaptability, in undergraduate students of Isfahan University. Population of this study includes all undergraduate students of Isfahan University (7,279 persons) that according to Morgan's table and stratified sampling, which are proportional to volume, 415 of them were selected as sample volume. Research tools includes Hazen & Shaver (1987) attachment styles questionnaire and Saviskas & Porfeli (2012) career adaptability questionnaire which was analyzed after distribution and collection, by SPSS version 17. The research data determined that there is a meaningful positive relationship between security attachment style, career concern, control, confidence, and career curiosity (p<0.05). Also there is a significant negative relationship between insecurity attachment avoidance and career concern and has a positive relationship with career confidence, control and curiosity (p<0.05). Meanwhile, there is a significant positive relationship between insecurity attachment ambivalence and career concern and no relationship with career confidence; and significantly has a negative relationship with career control and curiosity (p<0.05). we can deduce from current study that attachment styles has an important role in career adaptability as well as explaining the career adaptability aspect, that should be attention.

The study originality lies in the importance of librarians’ satisfaction and their roles in education and research quality especially in a country like Iran in which few research on librarians’ attitude have been performed so far. Therefore، the current research is performed with the aim of investigating job satisfaction factors for librarians working in central libraries in Tehran state universities in 2011. The research is a descriptive survey. The tool for collecting data was an author-made questionnaire. In this research، from all central libraries of state universities in Tehran affiliated to Ministry of Research، Science and Technology five libraries were selected by a random sampling Method. Therefore the population consisted of 140 librarians working in the selected five libraries. The questionnaires were distributed to the participants by current paper researchers. Only 100 persons answered to and returned the distributed questionnaires. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 15. The study reports a low job satisfaction. Participants mentioned their main dissatisfaction over the status of received library education، poor welfare facilities، job security and library management policies. Nonetheless، their satisfaction of inter-staffs relations and their work nature were high.

Using an analytic hierarchy process, this paper intends to develop a structural model for evaluating faculty competencies. The research method was descriptive-survey. Population of the study, in the first phase, included 331 students of the Urmia University in 2012-2013 academic year and in the second phase 20 Phd students in education. Two questionnaires were developed by researcher and their validity and reliability were examined and then verified. Pearson correlation coefficient, one-sample and independent T tests, analysis of variance, the confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical analysis were used to analyze data. The findings showed that: 1 - the four-dimensional models was of a good fit for evaluating faculty competencies; 2-Research competency dimension was lower than theoretical average, while managerial competency was higher than the said average; 3-There were no significant differences between girls and boys except in the competency dimension; 4- In the three areas of math, science and the humanities, there was a significant differences in the research competency dimension but the differences was not notable in other dimensions; 5- The results of paired comparisons showed that communicational competency have a particular priority for the faculty members and after that educational, research and managerial competencies got next places.

Many factors contribute to the quality of working life of teachers. Studies have pointed out on the role of factors such as physical condition, earnings, welfare, job safety and satisfaction. But, the aim present study was to study the relationship between ethical climate in work environment and quality of work life of middle school teachers in Yazd. The research design was correlational. For this purpose 152 teachers selected randomly from Yazd girl's middle school teachers. Instruments used in this study were quality of work life questionnaire of Linden, and ethical climate questionnaire in work environment. Data was analyze by multiple regression and multi-factorial analysis of variance. The findings indicated there was a significant relationship between quality of work life of teachers and ethical climate in work environment. In the other word in education environment that there are high efficiency, education quality, people receive support, care behavior from supervisors and co-workers, and clear and fair rules is governing, in this case teachers show in own role less job ambiguous as well as better ability to recognize situations, better job control and better mining full so people have more job security and more receive support from supervisors and co-workers.Furthermore in education environment that be expected of teachers efficiency and competence of, increase physical pressures and teachers are faced with a lack of time to do their job. Ethical climate dimensions independently predict quality of work life. With increasing work experience, decreases job skills and job satisfaction and teachers are faced with the uncertainty of role and increases disease risk of physical and psychological. It is recommended in educational environment, set clear and fair rules and relationships whit co- working teachers and office staff be friendly, supportive and empathic.

Career dysfunctional thoughts can affect all aspects of the occupational life and explain many of the career problems at both individual and organizational levels. Considering this, Sampson, et al (1996) developed The Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI). With regard to the importance of the assessment of these thoughts in vocational counseling and organizational efficiency, and due to the lack of an appropriate instrument for the assessment of these thoughts in Iranian population, the current research aimed to standardize the mentioned instrument for Iranian population and estimate its reliability. For this purpose, 465 men and women were selected among the employees of Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences via cluster sampling and completed this inventory. Data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis using principal components analysis method. Results showed that the instrument has consisted of 4 major factors and has an excellent reliability (above 0.9) after the elimination of irrelevant items.

the present study was to comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive training (MBCT) adjusted for Iranian culture and cognitive- behavioral training on job stress and its components in employees of service companies. In this research, using quesi experimental method, 54 employees were selected and randomly assigned into the 2 experimental groups and control (18 per a group), and were assessed in pre-test, post-test and follow up by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE, 1999) job stress questionnaire. First experimental group received 8 sessions of adapted mindfulness based cognitive training (MBCT) for Iranian culture, while second experimental group received 8 sessions of cognitive-behavioral training (CBT), each session took 120 minutes. The results of the within and between subjects from analysis of Repeated Measures and MANOVA revealed that training have a significant effect on enhancement of job stress and its components (P  0.01). The post hoc test also revealed that MBCT was more effective than CBT in total scores job stress and dimensions of managerial support, relationships and changes (P  0.01). It is concluded that MBCT affect on enhancement of job stress and its components, significantly.