نشریه مشاوره کاربردی
سال چهارم شماره 2 (پاییز و زمستان 1393)

Spiritual identity is conceptualized as defining and identification of oneself based on spirituality and spiritual experiences. This study, in a framework of a causal model, investigated the mediating role of spiritual identity between family communication orientations and loneliness aspects. Participants, four hundred undergraduate Shiraz University students (268 girls and 132 boys) were participants of the study selected by multistage cluster random sampling and completed Revised Family Communication Patterns (Koerner and Fitzpatrick), Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults: SELSA-S and a researcher-made questionnaire to measure spiritual identity. The SEM method was conducted to test the model fitness and Bootstrapping method in AMOS was used to examine the mediating role of the variables. Results showed that conversation orientation predicted all three types of loneliness, though conformity orientation was only a positive significant predictor of family loneliness. Also, conversation orientation was a positive significant predictor of both moral and supernatural dimensions of spiritual identity. Furthermore, the results revealed that both dimensions of spiritual identity significantly mediated the relationship between conversation orientation and all types of loneliness. Overall, findings suggest that conversation decreases family loneliness, romantic loneliness, and social loneliness through increasing spiritual identity.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of conscientiousness personality trait in the relationship of emotional exhaustion with job performance (task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors). The participants of this study consisted of 400 high school teachers in Khuzestan province (260 male & 140 female) that were selected by multi-stage random sampling method. The instruments used in this study were Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and Job Performance Scale (JPS). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and analysis of moderated hierarchical regression. The results showed that there was a significant negative relationship between emotional exhaustion and job performance and (task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors). Further, moderated regression analysis showed that conscientiousness personality trait moderated these relationships significantly. According to these findings, emotional exhaustion is an important factor in reducing teachers’ job performance and this relationship is stronger in teachers with low levels of conscientiousness personality trait.

The purpose of this study was to clarify the mediating role of marital conflicts in cognitive emotion regulation and quality of sexual relationship among conflicting pairs in Isfahan city. The sample of this study consisted of 210 conflicting married couples who were selected based on accessible sampling method from different counseling centers in Isfahan city. Cognitive Emotion al Regulation Questionnaire, Marital Conflicts Scale, and the Quality of Sexual Relationship Scale were used in this study. Data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and hierarchical regression simultaneously with method of Baran and Kanny analysis was done by SPSS21- statistical software. The results of the path analysis showed that marital conflicts, is a significant mediator for cognitive emotion regulation and quality of sex relationship for married people.

The purpose of the present study was to compare adolescents’ academic procrastination in different family types (healthy, unhealthy, content problematic and process problematic) based on the local contextual family process and content model (FPC). The sample included 493 high school students (212 girls & 281 boys) from grades seven and eight of 8 junior high schools who were from four educational districts of Shiraz City, Southern Iran, in the academic year 2013-2014. Participants were selected randomly by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected through completion of Conscientiousness and Procrastination Questionnaire, and Self-report Measures of Family Process and Content. To compare academic procrastination in different family types, of Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used of SPSS16- software. The results of indicated that there were significant differences between mean scores of children’s performances in all subscales (except dutifulness subscale) of all family types. In sum, this study emphasized the role of healthy family in FPC Model in having children with less academic procrastination.

Individual and social variety factors effect on risky behaviors that could note the domestic factors such as parenting style and individual features such as the ability to say no to youth and teens. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between parental Bonding and self assertiveness with behavior at risk in students of Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz. It selected 244 students (122 female, 122 male) who were selected using a multiple randomly selected method. To testing studied variant, that completed self assertiveness questionnaires for adolescents Dong u Lee-Lee and Kandler parental bondiges questionnaire and at risk behaviours questionnaire. Data analysis showed the there is a negative significant relationship of parental bonding and self assertiveness with students behavior at risk (p>0/001). In addition, regression analyses showed that there is a (parental bonding – self assertiveness) appropriate predictors of students behavior at risk. Accordingly, relying on the finding, of the parent study we can Concde that self assertiveness play a role in the emergence of high risk behavior.

This study sets out to examine of the effectiveness of family therapy based Bowen emotion System on love styles and Intimacy among counseling applicant women, Sanandaj city. The design of the study is as quasi-experimental and pre test and post test conducted on the control group. The data population includes all of counseling applicant women of Sanandaj city, one of the provinces of Kurdistan. 30 subjects were selected at random from among the data population. Using the tools of love styles and Intimacy, the scales of independent variables of love styles and Intimacy women were measured within counseling applicant women (pre test) and in the end, based on random situation sampling, subjects were arranged in two 15- groups i.e. Bowen emotion System therapy and evidence group. The results of Multi Analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) showed that controlling pre test of significance level, all tests of variables of groups indicate the existence of a significant difference, at least with regard to the one of the dependent variables- love styles and Intimacy-, between counseling applicant women of experimental and evidence groups(p

The aim of this study was to test the model of the relationship between violence against women and aggressive behavior in children with mediation of maternal mental health. Research design was correlation and path analysis. The study population included all of preschool children¢s mothers at the city of Dezful. The sample was consisted of 250 pre-school children¢s mothers. That selected by multi-stage random sampling technique. The participants completed Violence against Women scale, General Health Questionnaire and Child Behavior Checklist. The data analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis. The analysis of the proposal model showed the paths of sexual and economical violence against mothers to maternal mental health and economical violence against mothers to child aggression were not significant. After removing these paths, the model had good fitness indices. The results indicated that the direct relationships between physical, psychological and sexual violence against women and maternal mental health were negatively significant. The direct relationships between physical and psychological violence against women with child aggressive behaviors were positively significant. The relationship between maternal mental health and child aggressive behaviors was negatively significant. The bootstrap analysis showed there were significant the indirect paths between physical, psychological and sexual violence against women and child aggressive behaviors with mediating maternal mental health. According to this finding can result the maternal mental health can mediate negative inter-parental relationship and child aggressive behaviors.