پژوهش نامه اسلامی زنان و خانواده
سال چهارم شماره 7 (پاییز و زمستان 1395)

This research with the aim of representation and interpretation of family patterns regarding mate-selection has re-read and classified the texts obtained from the deep interviews with young girls in the city of Qom about their lived experiences. Five family patterns of post-modern family, modern family, in transition family, traditional family, and Islamic family, which are all the result of their corresponding discourses in the today›s society, were represented as family patterns in the current society with the help of discourse analysis and theoretical framework of interpretive sociology, including discourse theory and the David Cheel›s theory of social constructionism. According to the results, it seems that each family pattern is affected by various origins and obvious discourses (consistent with political power) and hidden discourses (inconsistent with political power) and it is in accordance with the emerged social and cultural changes of society and unlike some its positive features, it is also faced with some damages. But the Islamic family pattern has some potential advantages and features which can be introduced as an appropriate pattern.

The present study has been conducted with the purpose of identifying the relationship among the men›s adherence to Islamic teachings of treating a wife, marital satisfaction, and family efficiency. This correlational study is a bivariate correlational research. The population was 6421 married male teachers in the city of Qom and 385 people from them were selected as the sample by cluster sampling. The questionnaires of the men›s adherence to Islamic teachings of treating a wife, marital satisfaction, and family efficiency were applied in the study. The data were analyzed with the help of Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship among the men›s adherence to Islamic teachings of treating a wife, marital satisfaction, and family efficiency (P<0.001).

This study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of religious coping and spiritual Happiness on mental health. This correlational study has been done by the survey method and the population was all the women working in the Ministry of Education in the city of Robat Karim. 120 women were selected by multistage sampling and then the questionnaires were distributed among them. The Pargament›s (2000) religious coping scale, the Ellison›s (1983) spiritual happiness scale, and the Goldberg›s (1978) mental health questionnaire were the tools of this study. The findings were analyzed by correlation coefficient, regression, and F-test. The predictor variable was religious coping style with positive and negative levels and the criterion variable was spiritual happiness with four levels of somatic complaints, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and depression. The relationship among positive and negative religious coping, spiritual happiness, and the variables of mental health were analyzed with the help of regression analysis. The results showed that there is a meaningful correlation between negative religious coping style and mental health (PÀ0.01, r=0.38, B=0.780, t=2.32). There is not a meaningful correlation between positive religious coping style and mental health (PÀ0.01, r=-0.033, B=-0.387, t=-1.55). In addition, there is a meaningful correlation between spiritual happiness and mental health (PÀ0.01, r=-0.51, B=-0.187, t=-5.42).

This research has been conducted with the purpose of studying the role of gender differences in the students› dimensions of religiosity in Yasouj University. The present research has applied the survey method and the questionnaire for data-gathering. The population which includes all of the students studying in Yasouj University during 2014-2015 academic year is 4195 students. Based on the Lin›s (1976) formula, the sample is 400 students who were selected by multistage stratified sampling which is a type of random sampling. The results showed that there is a meaningful difference between the girl and boy students in terms of (general) religiosity. They also showed that there is a meaningful difference between girls and boys in belief, experimental, and ritual dimensions, but there is never a meaningful difference between girls and boys in application dimension. All descriptive and inferential findings of this research indicate two points: first, there is a meaningful difference between girl and boy students of Yasouj University in most dimensions of religiosity; second, the girl students› religiosity is considerably more than the boy student›s religiosity. Analyzing the findings allows us to conclude that, sociologically, the identity attitudes among girl and boy students are different from each other.

This study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the parents› capabilities for shaping the life style of kindergarten children and the children›s capabilities for the acceptance of religion. To achieve that goal, some religious and psychological texts were analyzed. The necessary information was collected by the library method and then obtained concepts were conceptually and theoretically analyzed by the methodology of religious texts study. The most important results are as follow: the emotional aspect is very important in religious topics; the game and its capabilities have a significant role in training and educating the children; the observational learning, which is the main kind of learning of children, should be used in shaping the children›s life style; and the children›s memory capacity, which is a capital for their future, should be taken into account and filled with appropriate content.

This research, which was a quasi-experimental study, aimed to investigate the effectiveness of educating the spiritual components on the components of positive psychology (hope, happiness, and optimism) among foster care adolescents by pre-test and post-test design with control group. The sample was 20 foster care adolescents in the city of Kerman who were placed in two groups of 10 (test group and control group). The test group was educated during 10 sessions after performing pre-test on the test and control groups. After that, both groups responded to the happiness questionnaire, revised life orientation questionnaire, and hope scale. The mean, standard deviation and covariance analysis (ANCOVA) were applied to analyze the data. The results showed that educating the spiritual components has a significant effect on the adolescents› hope and happiness, but it does not have any effect on the optimism. The spiritual components, with the help of Islamic techniques, have positive effects on the foster care adolescents› spirit and mind; thus, they can have an important role in improving the adolescents› psychological components.

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between the level and type of use of satellite channels and intergenerational difference between mothers and girls. It was conducted with the help of structural-functional theory, cultivation theory, the transition from tradition to modernity, value transformation, and the change in socialization process. This survey study is a type of correlation and comparative research that is done with a sample of 380 people (190 mothers and 190 girls) who were selected by simple random sampling. The results showed that there is a significant difference between mothers and girls in terms of religious adherence and adherence to social values. In addition, analyzing the relationship between the level and type of use of satellite channels and intergenerational difference in mentioned variables showed that the more the level of use of satellite channels is, the more intergenerational difference is and finally, two variables of the level of use and the type of use of satellite channels explained 38% of the changes in intergenerational difference. Therefore, this study indicates that satellite programs have a negative role in both the integration among generations and the weakening of values and religious adherence.