فصلنامه روانشناسی سلامت
پیاپی 19 (پاییز 1395)

the aim of the present study was to investigate effectiveness of cognitive – behavioral education on reduction of exhaustion of cancer in women suffering from breast cancer.
30 people were chosen among clients of Imam Khomeini hospital ( of Tehran in 1392 ) and were randomly assigned to two groups , experiment group (15 people ) and control group. Groups before education and after education responded to cancer fatigue scale (Okuyama, et al., 2000). To analyze the results, the staistical metods of multivariate covariance analysis was conducted.
The results showed , there is a meaningful difference between both groups in components of exhaustion of cancer , so that average of test group had a meaningful reduction after test .
Conclution: In view of changes that cognitive – behavioral education make them in attitude and cognition, it seems that it can have an effective role in making positive imagination in patients suffering from cancer and reducing their fatigue.

Discourse disorders of elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease affect their ability to communicate and participate in social interaction. This research compares descriptive discourse among elderlies with Alzheimer’s disease and healthy elderlies.
The method applied in the present study is ex post facto. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and the healthy elderlies of Tehran made the research population. To control the effective variables, 20 patients were matched with 22 healthy elderlies on the basis of age, education, gender, and being monolingual or bilingual. Different assessments were done for discourse analysis. U Man Whitney Test was used to analyze the data.
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease, performed weaker than the healthy aged control group in four measures that derived from discourse, which consist of false concepts (p=0.001), endless utterances (P>0.001), false conjunctions (P=0.007), and true conjunctions (P=0.031).
Results indicate that discourse of elderlies with Alzheimer’s disease was impaired in structure and content. Increase of False concepts, endless utterances, and false conjunctions, with decline of true conjunctions result in clinical discourse disorder in Alzheimer’s disease.

With respect to increase of job stress and disease that arise from stress in work environments, purpose of this study was investigated the role of effort-reward imbalance and demand-control-support model in accession of psychosomatic symptoms at staff of a company in Ahwaz.
The statistical population comprised of all personnel of a company in Ahwaz who worked at 1392. The sample consisted of 202 employees, who were selected by simple random sampling method and answered to the effort-reward imbalance, job content, and psychosomatic symptoms in nonclinical context questionnaires. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), using SPSS-18 and AMOS-18 software packages. The indirect effects were tested using the bootstrap procedure.
Findings indicated that the proposed model fit the data properly. Also mediating role of overcommitment in effort-reward imbalance model and mediating role of social support in demand-control-support model were confirmed.
With respect to the results, variables that apply at this study, special variables that had a mediating role should be regarded at schedules to reduce job ills and increase of staff health.

The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate family functioning in families with a member suffering from headache and families without this situation. The participants in this study were 124 patients who were suffering from recurring headaches and chronic headaches, 69 patients had chronic headache and 55 patients suffering from recurring headaches. In the control group, there was 53 individuals had not a history of severe headaches. Participants of this study who chose in neurology clinics was sampled as in access participants. They complete demographic questionnaire and Family Assessment Device (FAD), and MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance) test performed for this goal. Results showed that there was significant difference between chronic headache, non-chronic headache, and control group (p .

Aims: The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and quality of life in patients with clinical pain complain and healthy people.
The study sample consists of 200 participants (100 patients with pain complain and 100 healthy people between 18-60 years old) which were selected at convenience. Data were collected by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF36) and analyzed by independent samples t test, Pearson moment correlation method and Enter regression.
Based on the findings, the two groups of patients and healthy participants were significantly different both in alexithymia scale and quality of life. Also correlation between alexithymia and quality of life in patients was stronger, particularly in difficulties describing emotions and external-oriented thinking subscales.
Results showed that pain causes strong relationship between alexithymia and quality of life; and the mental aspect of quality of life is more affected by alexithymia than others.

Considering to significance of psychological factors in occurrence of physical pain, the current research has been conducted for the purpose of comparing mindfulness and self-regulation in women with non-cardiac chest pain and normal in Tehran city.
The methodology of this research was causal-comparative design. Hence, the research sample including 60 non-cardiac chest pain diagnosed women among referrals of two hospitals and cardiac clinics were selected by accessibility sampling Method and the sample of the healthy group also including: 60 women of accompanying the patients and the personnel of mentioned hospitals without any chest-pain who have certain criteria to participate in research. The subjects responded to two questionnaires including mindful attention awareness scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003) and Self-regulation scale (Ibanez & etal). Research data were analyzed by multi variables Covariance analysis test.
The results of analysis demonstrated significant difference in average values of mindfulness, self-regulation and its components contain positive action, controllability, expression of feeling ,assertiveness & well-being seeking between women with non-cardiac chest pain and normal (P
These findings showed that mindfulness and Self-regulation has relationship to non-cardiac chest pain. These results have important implications about these structures and importance of therapeutic interventions for these patents.

Many health problems arise directly from people`s behavioral choices, but people often do not behave in ways that could improve their health and extend their lives. The purpose of this study is to explore how self-compassion may play a role in relationship between self-control and health. To do so, 127 students (45 males and 82 females) of the university of Tehran filled four-dimensional measure of health questionnaire and short form of self compassion and self-control scales. The results revealed that self-compassion and self-control were correlated positively with health and the result of hierarchical regression analysis showed the moderating effect of self-compassion on the relationship between self-control and health. So that, in the higher level of self compassion, self control was a better predictor of health. These results are discussed in terms of the role of self compassion in the stages of self control (setting goals, taking action, evaluation and emotion regulation ).