International Journal of Education and Cognitive Sciences
Volume:4 Issue: 2, Summer 2023

Life in today's world is full of stress and challenges that people have to use the right skills to deal with stressful situations and crises. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of teaching resilience skills on family resilience in women. This is a semi-experimental research of pre-test-post-test type with experimental and control groups. The statistical population was 25-50% of the wives of veterans in Kermanshah city in 1402, and 40 women who scored low in resilience were randomly assigned to two experimental (20 people) and control (20 people) groups. The experimental group was trained in resilience skills for 12 sessions, one session per week, and no intervention was done on the control group. Analysis of covariance test was performed to analyze the data. The average age of the participants was 35.48 ± 6.83. The results of covariance analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the average family resilience in the post-test of the experimental group and the control group at the level of p<0.001. Based on the results of the research, resilience skills training had a significant effect on the resilience of the families of veteran wives.

This study presents the knowledge-sharing model based on individual and organizational factors related to faculty members. To achieve this goal, individual and organizational factors were presented through qualitative research in the form of open codes, axial, and selective observations; then, the final model was obtained using a structural equation model. Participants included 1,719 faculty members of the university in Iran. The samples related to the qualitative survey included 25 faculty members and the samples for the quantitative survey included 326 faculty members selected by multistage cluster sampling. A 72-item questionnaire was used to measure the quantitative variables. The results showed that the status of knowledge sharing is moderate in universities. Individual factors influencing knowledge sharing included the sharing of educational materials, perception, confidence and knowledge self-efficiency, and organizational factors influencing knowledge sharing included structural social capital, cognitive social capital, social capital relations, organizational communication, organizational structure, organizational culture, IT infrastructure and systems of rewards. Finally, it was found that the contribution of individual factors on knowledge sharing was more than organizational factors; therefore, a model was presented in which the contribution of individual and organizational factors was determined.

The purpose of this research was to investigate effectiveness of spirituality-based cognitive-behavioral therapy on psychological well-being and emotional self-regulation of women with addicted spouses. The research method was semi-experimental and the statistical population in this research included women with drug-addicted spouses, and the data collection was based on a sample which included 30 respondents. The research tools for collecting information in this research were standard questionnaires of cognitive behavioral therapy based on spirituality, psychological well-being and emotional self-regulation. The results showed that cognitive behavioral therapy based on spirituality has positive effect on psychological well-being and emotional self-regulation. The results obtained were discussed in detail in the section of findings and discussion.

The recent pandemic of Coronavirus and its associated excess mortality have made the man more prone to feelings of isolation and being alone existentially. Therefore, it is necessary to identify, assess, and reduce such negative feelings. The present study aims to provide a Persian adaptation of the existential loneliness questionnaire (ELQ) and to examine its dimensional structure and psychometric characteristics. The ELQ items were translated into Persian using forward-backward translation method. Participant recruitment is conducted via social media platform and data is collected via online survey. Content validity was evaluated by the expert’s judgement, followed by factor analysis, validity, and reliability tests. Two samples of university students were collected. Sample 1 consisted of 305 students aged 18-53 years, completed the Persian adaptation of the ELQ and several other instruments: De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (DJGLS), Existential Anxiety Questionnaire (EAQ), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-13), Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). Sample 2 consisted of 262 students aged 18-50 years, completed only the Persian ELQ to conduct Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) tests. According to Parallel Analysis (PA) and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) results, a unidimensional structure was found for the Persian ELQ, and the results of the CFA test supported this finding. The Multi-group CFA test supported the measurement invariance of the questionnaire across two samples. Evidence of high internal consistency (α =.91) and adequate test-retest reliability (r= .73) was found as well. The correlational analyses revealed a strong construct validity based on the ELQ score’s significant association with other criterion measures. According to the findings of the study, the Persian version of the ELQ is a reliable, valid, and psychometrically suitable instrument for use in Iranian samples of university students.

In this research, the relationship between technology and educational aids in the teaching process has been investigated from the point of view of the teachers of girls' and boys' elementary schools in Bojnourd city. The purpose of this research is whether the use of technology and educational aids in the teaching process has an effect from the point of view of the teachers of girls' and boys' primary schools.To answer this question, five sub-questions have been asked. The current research method from the perspective of data collection(Research plan) was descriptive, and from the point of view of research, it was applied based on the target category. The statistical population is 898 teachers of girls' and boys' elementary schools in Bojnourd city, of which 510 are women and 388 are men. The statistical sample is 87 people, and a multi-stage or cluster method was used to obtain the sample size and was investigated. it placed . The data of this project was collected through a researcher-made questionnaire with 26 items and using a Likert scale. The validity of the research tool was confirmed by experts (experts and university professors) and its reliability was obtained through Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.92, which indicates an acceptable level. It was a research tool. To analyze the questionnaire from SPSS software and to analyze the dataOne-sample t-test, independent t-test and Levin's test were used. The results show that the barriers to using technology and educational aids in the teaching process have a significant effect from the point of view of girls' and boys' primary school teachers, and gender, level of education, the role of teachers, administrators and the role of education and training can be very effective and in some cases different in the barriers to educational use and educational aids.

It is vital to understand resilience as it applies to the field of climate change and disaster. The concept of resilience has drawn the interest of climate scientists and psychologists who want to better understand how we can improve individual's and society’s resilience in the face of a quickly worsening climate as a result of man-made climate change. Resilience is defined as a process, ability, or outcome of successful adaptation to the environment, despite dangerous or adverse conditions. The objective of this study is to run review research through contemporary studies to summarise the cumulative documents in the area of resilience and climate change to investigate the contributing factors to climate change resilience. A search was carried out on the Web of Science, Google Scholar, and PubMed. A set of keywords was used, followed by filtering main keywords, resulting in a review of 70 articles. The results demonstrated that resilience was the main target of various researchers on climate change globally. Moreover, results indicate various waves of resilience and components of resilience including exposure, susceptibility, and capacity to cope with environmental issues. Besides that, this research revealed coping strategies on climate change and factors that have been correlated with climate change resilience (e.g., psychological, social, and family and community factors). In conclusion, resilience has been identified as a core concept in both the mitigation of climate change and climate change disasters, as well as the capacity to cope with these when they occur. Future research should focus on identifying core