رضیه غضبان زاده

Women with depression are falling in terms of psychological especially in the field of spiritual intelligence, health concern and psychological distress and one of the effective methods in improving the psychological characteristics is emotion regulation training method. Present study aimed to investigate the effect of emotion regulation training on spiritual intelligence, health concern and psychological distress in women with depression.

This study was semi-experimental with a pretest and posttest design with an experimental and control groups. The research population was women with depression referred to psychological services clinics of Ahvaz city in 2018 year, who among them 50 people were selected by available sampling method and randomly replaced into two equal groups (each group 25 people). The experimental group received eight sessions of 90 minute for two months (one session a week) emotion regulation training and the control group placed on the waiting list for training. Data were collected by questionnaires of demographic profile, depression, spiritual intelligence, health concern and psychological distress and were analyzed with multivariate analysis of covariance method in the SPSS-18 software.

The findings showed that before training there was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of spiritual intelligence, health concern and psychological distress (P>0/05), but after training there was a significant difference between groups in terms of all three variables (P<0/001). Based on the results of multivariate analysis of covariance, the emotion regulation training led to increased spiritual intelligence (F=107/15, P<0/001) and decreased health concern (F=139/64, P<0/001) and psychological distress (F=142/28, P<0/001) in women with depression.

The results indicated the effect of emotion regulation training on increasing spiritual intelligence and decreasing health concern and psychological distress in women with depression. Therefore, it is recommended that therapists and clinical psychologists use emotion regulation training along with other methods such as mindfulness training or acceptance and commitment training to increase spiritual intelligence and decrease health concern and psychological distress, especially in women with depression.

Diabetes is one of the main causes of death in the world; so that every day the number of patients with it is increasing and one of the risk groups in Corona disease are people with diabetes. From anxiety related factors can be noted to cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety, therefore present research aimed to predicting Corona anxiety based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety in diabetic patients.

This study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was diabetic patients of Ahvaz city in 2020 year which from them 400 people selected by purposive sampling method. In this research to collected data used from the tools of Corona anxiety, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS-19 software.

The findings showed that positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and health hardiness had a negative and significant relationship with Corona anxiety in diabetic patients and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and death anxiety had a positive and significant relationship with their Corona anxiety. Also, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety could explain 38/8 percent of Corona anxiety changes in diabetic patients, which the share of death anxiety was higher than other variables (P<0/01).

Regarded to the results, for reduce Corona anxiety of diabetic patients can designed programs to increase their positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and health hardiness and decrease their negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and death anxiety and implemented through electronic and virtual workshop.

Nurses due to rotational shifts and job stress face to health problem and relationship with spouse, and of the ways to improve health and psychological characteristics is positive thinking training method. Therefore, this research aimed to determine the effect of positive thinking group training on psychological well-being, positive meta-emotion and couple relationship quality in nurses.

Present study was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with control group. The research population was female nurses of Shahid Mofatteh and 15 Khordad hospitals of Varamin city in the spring of 2019 year. The research sample was 30 persons who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into two equal groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes the positive thinking group training and the control group no received training. Data were collected by the questionnaires of psychological well-being, positive meta-emotion and couple relationship quality and in SPSS version 19 analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method.

The findings showed that in pre-test stage there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of psychological well-being, positive meta-emotion and couple relationship quality (P>0.05), but in post-test stage there was a significant difference between the groups in all three variables (P<0.001). In the other words, positive thinking group training led to significant increase the psychological well-being (F=129.645, P<0.001), positive meta-emotion (F=118.679, P<0.001) and couple relationship quality (F=112.320, P<0.001) in nurses.

The results indicated the effect of positive thinking group training on improving the psychological well-being, positive meta-emotion and couple relationship quality in nurses. Therefore, it is recommended to use positive thinking group training to improve the health-related characteristics, especially the psychological well-being, positive meta-emotion and couple relationship quality.

Teachers of exceptional schools due to the problems of students, need to improve the positive psychological characteristics, in particular mental well-being. The aim of this study was to predict subjective well-Being based on health promoting lifestyle, work-family conflict and job satisfaction among exceptional school teachers. This study was a descriptive-correlational study. The research population was all teachers of Ahwaz exceptional schools in 2012-2012. 120 of them were selected by cluster sampling method. Data were collected by "Subjective Well-being Questionnaire", "Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile", "Work-Family Conflict Questionnaire", and "Job Satisfaction Questionnaire”. Data was analyzed by SPSS.19. Health promotion lifestyle (r = 0.476) and job satisfaction (r = 0.263) had a positive and significant correlation with mental well-being. On the other hand, the conflict of work-family (r = -0.301) correlated negatively with mental well-being. Also, health promotion lifestyle variables, work-family conflict and job satisfaction were able to predict 32.6% of the changes in subjective well-being of teachers of exceptional schools. In this prediction, the share of lifestyle enhancing health was higher than other variables (P < 0.01). The results indicated the importance of health promotion lifestyle, work-family conflict and job satisfaction in predicting subjective well-being of teachers of exceptional schools. Therefore, it is recommended that counselors, clinical psychologists and therapists improve the mental health of teachers of exceptional schools by improving their lifestyles, improving their health and job satisfaction and reducing work-family conflicts