فصلنامه مطالعات روانشناختی
سال دهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 35، تابستان 1393)

This study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of Dohsa intervention in social skills improvement and stereotypic behaviors reduction of children with high functioning autism. The research was based on single subject method. Seven children with high functioning autism (8 to12 years old) were selected through voluntary accessible sampling of autism foundation members (n=46). Children were attended in a 8-session intervention that occurs 2 time in a week and each session was 55 minutes. Assessment was performed using Gilliam Autism Rating Scale and Autism Social Skill Profile. Data was analyzed by the effect size method، dependent t and Wilcoxon. The results indicated significant difference in social skills and stereotypic behavior over time. Results showed that Dohsa intervention can improve social skills and reduced stereotypic behavior but it had no effect on detrimental social behaviors. Follow –up assessment showed that treatment results should be continued.

The purpose of the present study was a comparison of the Effectiveness of Mindfulness based cognitive therapy and Metacognitive therapy on depressive symptoms، positive and negative beliefs about rumination and experiential avoidance. Quasi-experimental method with pre-test - post-test was used. To achieve this goal، the students were invited to attend group therapy sessions. 28 individuals with depressive symptoms were selected according to BDI cut off point (10-28) and were randomly divided in to two groups: mindfulness based cognitive therapy (15) and metacognitive therapy (13). Beck depression inventory (beck)، positive beliefs about rumination (papageorgiou &wells)، negative beliefs about rumination scale (papageorgiou، wells & mina،2008) and acceptance and action questionnaire (bond، et. al.، ) were administered pre-treatment and post-treatment to all subjects. ANCOVA was used to analyze data. The results indicated that metacognitive therapy was more effective than mindfulness based cognitive therapy in decreasing positive (p<0/05) and negative (p<0/05) metacognitive beliefs about rumination and mindfulness based cognitive therapy was more effective in decreasing avoidance and increasing acceptance (p<0/01). So the presents findings indicated thatmetacognitive therapy was more useful for decreasing positive and negative metacognitive beliefs about rumination and mindfulness based cognitive therapy was more efficient therapy in increasing psychological flexibility. It is hoped that future research will elucidate the mechanisms of effectiveness of this two main therapies.

The aim of present research was to investigate the effectiveness of Communicative-social skills training on employee''s Job satisfaction Coping and Assertiveness Skills in SAYPA YADAK Company. The research design was quasi- experimental، using pre-test، post-test and control groups. The statistical population involves 1200 employees in different parts of SAYPA YADAK Company. Purposeful sampling was aimed in this research. That was according to the result of job satisfaction questionnaire، JDI، which was distributed every six months to evaluate employee''s job satisfaction، garage No. 4 was chosen as sampling unit due to low score of co-workers، supervision and communication، employers gained on last JDI performance. To measure job satisfaction in this unit، Spector''s job satisfaction questionnaire was used. 24 employees whose total co-worker، supervision and communication scores were lower than the average were selected as samples and randomly placed in two groups: Control and Experimental. For Experimental group a communicative-social skill training program was performed in 8 ninety - minutes sessions. Research measurement included Spector''s Job satisfaction questionnaire، Moss and Biclings''s coping skills questionnaire، and assertiveness skills questionnaire. T-test for independent groups were used. The results indicate that the impact of communicative-social skills training on employee''s job satisfaction، assertiveness skill and coping skills were effective. Therefore. teaching these skills directly or via mass media was suggested.

The main goal of this study was to determine the effect of group reality therapy on anxiety of women. This is a quasi experimental، case-control، pilot study with the pre-test and post-test design. With a random and matched case-control group selection from all women Participant in the psychology classes district 5 Municipality Tabriz. 24 Subject entered based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. After their inform consents obtained، they were placed into two groups of expeerimental (n=12) and control (n=12) groups. Eexperimental group participated in 8 sessions of group reality therapy while the control group did not receive such kind of therapy. The outcomes were interpreted by using the covariance analysis. The reality therapy group showed significant (p<001) results in reducing anxiety.

The aim of the present research was to study dimensions of national identityand introducing its behavioral aspect as a new dimension and to compare developmental processof these dimensions andalso assess the role of parents، peers، educational environment and the media، in predicting national identity in early and late adolescence and early youth. This research was a surveyandselected700 students including 358 male and 342 female from Junior high school، high school and undergraduate students in Tehran citythroughcluster random sampling. Research instruments were researcher made questionnairesused for national identity، Knowledge of national signs and symbols and role of family، peers، educational environment، and media in development of national identity. Results of present study indicated that national identity has threedimensions: cognitive، affective and behavioral. Development of national identity showed decreasing trend from early adolescence to early youth but Knowledge of national signs and symbols showed anincreasing trend. Family، watching TV،listening toradio، peers، satellite، non-curriculum books and magazines were predicated to be national identity and Knowledge of national signs andsy mbols

Positive psychology is the newest scope of psychology and one of the valuable concepts of its realm is happiness. The main purpose of this research was to study the relationship between religious orientation and personality with happiness. For this purpose 324 college students were selected through random stratified sampling. Bahrami''s religion scale was applied for religious orientation and NEO-FFI-60 questionnaire was used to measure personality and Oxford happiness''s questionnaire was used to measure happiness of college students. Result of correlation and regression showed that 1) there was a positive correlation between the components of religious orientation and happiness and there was a negative correlation between gratification and disorganization with happiness and there was a positive correlation between happiness with conscientiousness، extroversion and openness to experience and there was a negative correlation with happiness neuroticisms.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric of a Persian version of Kampen’s Four-Dimensions Personality Test (4DPT). A sample of 315 university students with ago range of 18-26 years-old were selected، using cluster random sampling and were asked them to fill two questionnaires (4DPT and EPQ-RS). 4DPT is a questionnaire with 64 questions that evaluates four personality dimensions: N (Neuroticism)، E (Extraversion)، S (Insensitivity)، G (Orderliness). This questionnaire was constructed in 1977 and translated to Persian by researcher and was analyzed for the first time in Iran. The results of this questionnaire were compared with EPQ-RS (Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire) and its reliability was measured by internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient). The result of alpha coefficient (total & each scale alpha coefficients) showed the relative reliability of questions in measured characters. N factor (neuroticism) was the highest reliability among scales. The validity of the test was estimated by factor analysis and investigating of the correlation between 4DPT and EPQ-RS. E and N dimensions had the highest correlation; while the S and G dimensions had not significant correlation. The results of main factors analysis with varimax-rotated confirmed the high reliability of scales.