مجله روانشناسی نظامی
پیاپی 27 (پاییز 1395)

The aim of this research work was to investigate the improvement of religious commitment in response to ideological-political, emotional intelligence, and life skills interventions among the students of the Specialist Training Command Center of the Navy in Rasht, Iran.
This study is based on the true experimental design (pretest-posttest and a 3-month follow-up with a control group). Four groups of 25 participants, including a control group (without any intervention), the first experimental group (ideological-political and emotional intelligence training), the second experimental group (ideological–political and life skills training), and the third experimental group (ideological-political, emotional intelligence, and life skills training), were selected. Then the Glock and Stark Religiosity Scale (1965) was administered to all the four groups before and after the interventions. Three months after the post-test, the same instrument was administered to the four groups.
Data analysis with repeated measures univariate analysis of covariance (R-ANCOVA) showed that all the interventions could improve the religious commitment of the students in the experimental groups in comparison with that of the control group. In addition, each one of the first, second and third interventions explained 19, 19, and 21 percent of religiosity commitment in the posttest, respectively. The results further revealed that the effect of the interventions in the experimental groups remained stable after almost 3 months.
Emotional intelligence and life skills interventions as well as ideological-political training are effective in improving the Navy student's religious commitment.

Given the necessity of combatants’ allout readiness to carry out military missions, this paper deals with exploring the relationship between biorhythm and individuals’ level of preparedness. The purpose of this paper is to predict individuals’ level of readiness for carrying out military missions using a hidden Markov model.
Bearing in mind the cycles of individual biorhythm, these factors were modeled on the hidden Markov model. In this model, according to the level of physical, intellectual, emotional, and intuitive readiness, every individual will be in one of the specified states of the model at a specified time; thus, combatants’ level of readiness for carrying out military missions can be predicted on the basis of this model.
The results of this study suggest that there is a coincidence between the theoretical and mathematical principles presented in this paper and the views of the respondents who were 30 military experts. Based on the results of this research, when needed, not only a military commander, but also combatants themselves can determine their level of readiness by asking a few simple questions. By doing so, readiness or lack of readiness for carrying out a specific mission is projected.
At present, our combatants have a single mission whereas, in advanced armies in the world, individuals receive various trainings and they are entrusted with appropriate missions at specified times on the basis of their physical, intellectual, and emotional conditions. Given the four biorhythms -- physical, emotional, intellectual, and intuitive -- in this paper, we have defined 16 missions the most appropriate of which is given to combatants by the commander by referring to the hidden Markov model.

Quality of life is a multidimensional concept composed of personal, social, physical and mental traits. Hence, this study has been conducted to investigate the role of attachment to God in predicting the quality of life of students in a military organization by controlling the mediating role of spiritual attitude.
This study is based the correlational descriptive method. Using the convenience sampling method, 300 basiji students were selected from the universities in Tehran in the academic year 20152016. The required data were collected using the quality of life, attachment to God and spiritual attitude questionnaires. The obtained data were analyzed by the Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis.
The results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between quality of life and attachment to God (r₌ 0.56, P˂0.01) and quality of life and spiritual attitude (r₌ 0.41, P˂0.01). In addition, considering the results of the hierarchical regression, it may be concluded that spiritual attitude plays a partial (not full) mediating role in the relationship between quality of life and attachment to God.
The findings suggest that spiritual attitude could play a mediating role between the attachment to God and the quality of life variables. Therefore, the results of this study can be effective in improving the quality of life of university students.

The dedicated and devotee staff in organizations are among the vulnerable groups who are physically and mentally in need of special care and attention. At the same time, ability to establish effective relationship with others is considered one of the most important protective factors against mental disorders, and it is linked to wellbeing, happiness, physical and mental health, as well as low mortality; ability to establish effective relationship with others itself is affected by different factors. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of emotional intelligence on relational competence of the dedicated and devotee staff.
This is an applied research work, and given the nature of the topic under study and the objectives, it can be categorized as a correlational descriptive study. The statistical population includes all the dedicated and devotee staff of North Khorasan Governorate. Due to the limited number of the population, all of them were selected as the sample. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire, and the collected data were analyzed using regression analysis, the Pearson correlation, mean, and the Friedman test.
The results revealed that there is a positive significant correlation between all the factors of emotional intelligence and relational competence, and emotional intelligence has a positive impact on the staff’s relational competence. Also, it was revealed that the state of emotional intelligence and relational competence was average among the staff.
Emotional intelligence plays an important role in promoting relational competence. Given the results of the present study, it is suggested that managers and employees recognize the importance of emotional intelligence and its role in relational competence and take the necessary steps to improve it.

This study is aimed at examining the effect of group resilience training on the mental health and quality of life of the handicapped veteran's wives living in an organizational settlement in Tehran.
This is an applied research work based on the quasi-experimental design with pre- and post-tests and a control group. The sample included the wives of 60 handicapped veterans living in an organizational settlement in Tehran. The sample ultimately came to 50 subjects as 10 participants decided not to participate in the study. The 50 participants were randomly put into the two experimental or control groups of equal size. The subjects’ resilience was measured using the 25-item questionnaire of Connor and Davidson (2003), their mental health was measured using the 28-item questionnaire of Goldberg (1972), and their quality of life was measured using the 36-item quality of life index of Weir and Sherborne (1992). Using descriptive statistics methods including mean and standard deviation, the obtained data were described and based on the covariance analysis as an inferential statistics test, the hypotheses were tested.
The results of the covariance analysis, at the significance level of p Based on these findings, it can be said that the problems and hardships of life and living and interacting with the handicapped veterans having physical and mental problems disturb the mental tranquility of the veterans’ wives and lower their mental health as they are affected by stress, anxiety and depression. Therefore, resilience boosts mental health by modifying these factors through reducing mental and emotional problems. This process results in increasing life satisfaction.

In regard to the significance of the relationship between mother and child, what is essential for children's mental health is to experience a warm, intimate, and continuing relationship with mother or her permanent substitute. Many forms of neuroticism and personality disorders are the result of depriving children from maternal care or instability of child’s relationship with the attachment figure. The current study aims to investigate the relationship between attachment styles and suicidal thoughts among soldiers in a military organization and determine its predictive role in this field.
This is a correlational descriptive study conducted on 361 soldiers in Mashhad, Iran in 2015 using the multi-stage cluster sampling method. The data collection instruments of this study were the Beck Suicide Scale Ideation and the Revised Adult Attachment Scale (Collins & Read, 1990). The data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.
The results reveal a significant positive relationship between ambivalent attachment style and suicidal thoughts and a significant negative relationship between secure and avoidance attachment styles and suicidal thoughts.
Given the results of the current study, secure attachment style and avoidance attachment style could significantly predict suicidal thoughts. In addition, the findings of this study confirmed the role of secure attachment style in reducing suicidal thoughts.