فصلنامه روانشناسی تحلیلی شناختی
پیاپی 3 (تابستان 1389)

The research purpose is to evaluate the relationship between entrepreneurship, organizational commitment and job burnout; therefore, the tools administered were, “the researcher-designed Scale of Measuring Entrepreneurship, Meyer & Allen's Model of Commitment and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)”. Our sample that comprised 146 individuals was selected using simple random sampling and among from the members of administrative and service sectors of Islamic Azad University, Roudehen branch. Results which were analyzed using stepwise regression reveal that entrepreneurship and organizational commitment correlate positively, significantly with job burnout.

This study was carried out in 1386 because of the importance of women's mental health and their presence in the society, to investigate the effect of self – esteem on mental health in employed and unemployed women. To carry out the study, 50 women working in Zimens factory and 50 unemployed women were selected based on available sampling. They were given Goldberg and Hiller’s general health and Cooper Smith’s self – esteem questionnaires. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis were used. The results showed significant difference in self – esteem, mental health, somatic symptoms, anxiety symptoms, social function, depression symptoms (p< %05) between employed and unemployed women. Employed women showed better states in all the above factors. More over, the results showed significant correlation between self – esteem and mental health among women. How ever, no significant correlation was found between employed & unemployed women.

The research purpose is to evaluate the gifted female students’ creativity in GAT, grant-maintained and independent schools; therefore, the sample comprised166 students who had been selected using cluster random sampling and the research tools involved “Raven's Progressive Matrices test and Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT)”. The data which was analyzed by variance analysis indicated that there is a significant difference between students studying in GAT, grant-maintained and independent schools; furthermore, gifted female students studying in GAT schools proved to have a higher level of creativity and its relevant components compared to gifted female students studying in grant-maintained and independent schools.

The research purpose is to evaluate the principals’ power resources and its relationship with organizational climate from teachers’ viewpoints. The research used the correlation method in a sample of 160 individuals drawn from a larger population of 14152 teachers working in GM schools of Tehran who had been selected using multistage cluster sampling. The research data was collected using “Samuel C. Certo power questionnaire and The Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire for Elementary Schools: The OCDQ-RE developed by Kottkamp and Mulhern”.The data which was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient showed that organizational climate correlates significantly, positively to reward power, expert power and referent power; whereas, it correlates significantly, inversely to coercive power; moreover, no significant difference was observed between principals’ legitimate or positional power and organizational climate.

The research purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of problem solving skills training in developing engineers’ creativity with regard to their personality types. A semiexperimental method was employed along with pretest and post-test upon control group. The sample comprised 50 engineers who were through the availability mode among from the engineers working in the industrial management company. They were then assigned to experimental and control group and underwent 5 sessions of problem solving skills training. The research tools involved “Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and the short version of Revised NEO Personality Inventory, or NEO PI-R”.Results which were analyzed by covariance indicated that problem solving skills training significantly stimulated engineers’ creativity; furthermore, among from the personality dimensions including conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness to experience, just the last aspect had a significant relationship with the development of creativity and problem solving skills training; moreover, Problem-solving skills training, as a technique, can stimulate personality and metacognitive components of creativity.

The research which employs a casual-descriptive method aims at evaluating the effective psychological factors in agricultural specialists’ viewpoints on sustainable agriculture in Semnan province. The statistical population involved agricultural specialists and faculty members working in agriculture departments of Semnan universities, out of which 168 individuals were randomly selected using Cochran formula. The main tool in order to acquire the necessary data was a questionnaire that had been tested with regard to its validity and (alpha=89%). To analyze the data, correlation test and multiple regressions were employed. Findings indicate that considering the beneficiaries’ interests and needs, learning agricultural stabilization and conservation service and positive attitude toward conservation correlate significantly, positively to specialists’ attitude with regard to the necessity in the stabilization of the agriculture at the 95 percent level of significance. Moreover, awareness of the impact of conventional agriculture on environmental degradation, awareness of the benefits of sustainable agriculture and encouraging the beneficiaries to consider sustainable cultivation were found to correlate significantly, positively to specialists’ attitude with regard to the necessity in the stabilization of the agriculture at the 99 percent level of significance. The regression analysis also indicated that among from the independent variables, awareness of the impact of conventional agriculture on environmental degradation was the most important psychological reason in the necessity of applying the sustainable extension. What’s more, encouraging the beneficiaries to consider sustainable cultivation, awareness of the benefits of sustainable agriculture, considering the beneficiaries’ needs, learning agricultural stabilization and conservation service were found to have the highest impact on the independent variable explaining 35/1 percents of the changes concerning the dependant variable.

This study evaluates the relationship between organizational climate and conflict management from the teachers’ viewpoints. The statistical population included all the teachers working in public schools of Tehran, out of which 375 female individuals were selected using random multistage cluster sampling. Our findings indicate that only 6 % of the changes concerning conflict management are related to the two factors of organizational climate (morale and intimacy) and 94% are related to the other factors. The multiple correlation coefficients between the components of organizational climate (morale and intimacy) with conflict management equals to 0/244 which is significant. Moreover, there is a significant, positive relationship between two aspects (morale and intimacy) of organizational climate and two method of conflict management (collaborating and compromising) and a significant negative relationship with regard to other variables.

The research purpose it to compare the level of stress and body image among individuals aged 20-30 seeking and not seeking cosmetic surgeries in Ahvaz province.Therefore, 50 individuals (38 females, 12 males) with the history of cosmetic surgery and 50 individuals without the history of cosmetic surgery were selected; it’s worth mentioning that these two groups were matched with regard to age, sex, monthly income, educational level and marital status. The tools employed were” Paykel’s Life events and Depression Questionnaire” and “Multidimensional Body-Self relations Questionnaire [MBSRQ]”. Results which were analyzed using t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient indicate no significant difference between the level of stress and body image among people who seek cosmetic surgery and those who don’t; however, there is a statically significant relationship between the level of stress and body image. Overall, regarding the inverse, negative relationship between the level of stress and body image, it can be concluded that high level of stress can result in lower body image.