adolescent students

The aim of present study was investigating the impact of social problem solving training on reducing anger among adolescent students. This research was a quasi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with a control group. 30 teenage students were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (15 people in the experimental group and 15 people in the control group). The social problem solving training program D’Zurilla and Nezu(2007) was implemented in 10 one-hour sessions on the experimental group. Then, the level of anger of the participants was measured in the pre-test-post-test-follow-up phases using with multidimensional student anger questionnaire (Smith, Furlong, Bates, Laughlin, 1998). The research data was analyzed through the method of mixed repeated measure. The results showed that the average scores of the participants in anger and its subscales in the post-test stage compared to the pre-test stage in the experience of anger, positive coping and hostile attitude had a significant difference, but there was no significant difference in the destructive coping subscale. Also, there was no significant change between the post-test and follow-up scores in all the anger subscales of the students in the experimental group, which indicated the significant persistence of the changes resulting from the social problem solving training in the follow-up phase. The findings of this research showed that social problem solving training has been effective in reducing the anger of adolescent students.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching metacognitive strategies on the academic well-being and academic help-seeking of adolescent female students This research was semi-experimental (pre-test and post-test design with control group). The statistical population of this research includes all the female students of the second year of secondary school (first grade of high school) who were studying in the academic year (1401-1402) who were selected using a purposive sampling method. To collect data in the two stages of pre-test and post-test, the academic well-being questionnaire (AWBQ) of Tominin-Sweeney et al  and  has been used. The experimental group used the scientific work of Saif (2016) during 8 sessions (90 minutes) under the training of metacognitive strategies. But the control group did not receive such an intervention. The collected data were analyzed using multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance The findings of the research showed that teaching metacognitive strategies has significantly led to an increase in academic well-being and academic help-seeking in the experimental group. According to the results of the present study, it can be concluded that teaching metacognitive strategies can be considered as an effective method to increase academic help-seeking and academic well-being in female students.

The present study was conducted with the aim of validating the "psycho-social and behavioral effects of covid-19" scale (PSBECS-OR) among parents of secondary school students in Tehran at the beginning of the academic year 2022-23 (October).

The statistical population of this research included parents of second high-school students of Tehran city and a selected sample of 250 parents (father or mother) of second-high school students (girls and boys) from district 3 of district 11 of Tehran city, and the instrument used was the scale of "psycho-social and behavioral effects of covid-19" (2022) has been.

The findings of the CFA showed that items related to 5-factors had a T value higher than 1.96 and a standardized load value higher than 0.3. The fit indices were also obtained at favorable values and since the RMSEA is less than 0.08, the relative chi-square is less than 3, and the RFI, CFI, IFI and NNFI fit indices are more than 0.9, so the 5-factor model is presented. It has been confirmed in the CFA and is reported to be appropriate for the culture of Iranian teenagers aged 14 and older. Also, all 5-factors have an alpha value higher than 0.7, which indicates the existence of proportional reliability.

This scale is valid instrument for assess the change of covid-19 on psycho-social and behavioral characters of parents of secondary school Students.

Strengthening wisdom along with intelligence is essential for students' spiritual and scientific progress. Accordingly, the behavioral indicators and the level of wisdom of students should be measured with a valid tool and appropriate to Islamic culture. The aim of this article assess the wisdom of adolescent students is written.This article is a part of development-applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey type in terms of data collection method. The statistical population included all gifted and moderately intelligent students of the first year of high school in Isfahan in the academic year of 1997-98. Cluster random sampling method was used and 400 people were tested individually with a questionnaire to assess the level of wisdom of adolescent students.. Data were analyzed using Spss and AMOS software using correlation coefficient, heuristic and confirmatory factor analysis.The results of the analysis showed that the mean index in the gifted group is higher than the normal group and gifted male and female students have a higher score in the Wise Behavioral Indices Questionnaire. Eight factors with eigenvalues higher than one were able to explain 71.494% of the variance of items. The results of the first-order confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fit index is at a desirable level. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated in terms of Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.895. The coordination between the factors with the total score is acceptable and the model fit index is at a desirable level, which indicates that the questionnaire is sufficient.

The aim of Current research was to study the validity, reliability and factor structure of behavioral emotion regulation questionnaire in a sample of high school students. 

Methodology of this study was survey and validation. A sample included of 508 high school students from Urmia city students were selected by multistage cluster sampling. To calculate convergent and diagnostic validity, we used depression, anxiety and stress scale (dass-21) and ryff's scales of psychological well-being (RSPWB-18). Structural validity was evaluated through exploratory factor analysis by principal components analysis with varimax rotation and confirmatory factor analysis by maximum likelihood method. Reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha and retest methods and all statistical analyses performed by SPSS-25 and Lisrel-8/8softwares.

The results of exploratory factor analysis extracted five factor that explained 0/65 of the variance of all the questions and the confirmatory factor analysis also supports the five-factor structure of the behavioral emotion regulation scale. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the subscales of seeking distraction, withdrawal, actively approaching, seeking social support and ignoring respectively 0/75, 0/84, 0/82, 0/81 and 0/78, and for the whole questionnaire 0/74 calculated and the test-retest coefficient for the whole questionnaire was 0/82. Also the correlation coefficients indicated good convergent and diagnostic validity.

Based on the findings, the behavioral emotion regulation questionnaire in high school students has appropriate psychometric properties.

This research aimed to investigate the effect of metacognitive awareness on decision-making styles and emotion regulation in female high school students during 2016 in Tabriz, Iran. We conducted a pre- and post-test quasi-experimental research design with a control group. Two classes were selected by cluster sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental (n=19) and control (n=19) groups. A metacognitive awareness intervention program was performed in eight sessions (once a week in 90-minutes) for the experimental group but the control group did not receive any intervention and served as the benchmarking point of the comparison. The Decision Styles Questionnaire (Leykin & DeRubeis, 2010) and Regulation of Emotion Questionnaire (Phillips & Power, 2007) were administered. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). The result showed a significant decrease in the score of the avoidant, anxious, intuitive, and spontaneous dimensions as well as a significant increase in the score of the dependent dimension of decision-making styles in the experimental group compared with the control group. Moreover, the scores of the dysfunction dimension of emotion regulation decreased significantly in the experimental group, while, the scores of the function dimension increased significantly.

The aim of the present research is to determine the relation of self-esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation with self-handicapping in adolescent students. In a cross sectional research, 386 high school male and female students are selected based on multi-stage sampling in city of Tehran in the academic year of 2010-2011. They filled Jones and Rhodwalt Self-handicapping Scale (SHS), Chabrol, Rousseau, & Callahan Inatability Self-esteem Scale (ISES) and Watson and Friend Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (FNE). Pearson correlation test, inter-regression and independent T test are used for statistical analysis. The results of Pearson correlation show that self-esteem instability has a positive relation (r=.261, p<0.001) with self-handicapping, and fear of negative evaluation is positively and significantly (r=.289, p<0.001) correlated with self-handicapping. Also relation of self-esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation with behavioral self-handicapping and claimed self-handicapping is positive and siginificant. Regression analysis indicates that self-esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation predict self-handicapping in adolescent students. Independent T test shows that self-handicapping in girls is higher than boys. The results indicate that self-esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation are determining & predictive factors in self-handicapping in adolescent students.