نشریه دست آوردهای روانشناسی بالینی
سال دوم شماره 3 (پاییز 1395)

Various psychological, cognitive, physiological and behavioral functions in human are dependent on emotional regulation and involved in human health. This study aimed to predict heart rate variability based on positive and negative components of cognitive emotion regulation, performed on University Students of Kurdistan in 2015-2016. The research method was descriptive-correlation and the statistical population included all university students of Kurdistan in 2015-2016. By available sampling method and using an invitation, 70 students of Kurdistan University attended in this research. After describing research circumstances, they were assessed and according to primary results, 62 individuals passed the final analysis. The research tools included cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire and ProComp 2 Biofeedback System to record heart waves. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis by Enter method. The results illustrated that there is a significant positive relationship between heart rate variability and cognitive emotion regulation. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that among predictive variables, positive cognitive emotion regulation could explain the heart rate variability.

The goal of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on treatment of adolescents with major depression disorder. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up with a control group. According to the inclusion criteria, 16 female adolescents with major depression disorder were selected through available sampling method and randomly assigned into two 8-member experimental and control groups. Before starting intervention, Beck Depression Inventory-II was conducted in pretest of each two groups. Afterwards, eight 60-90 minutes sessions of ACT were executed to treat experimental group. Then the posttest for each group was performed and two months after posttest, the follow-up were carried out for each group. Data were analyzed using SPSS-23 software and analysis of variance with repeated measures statistical method. The findings showed that ACT has a significant effect on treatment of adolescents with major depression disorder (P0.05). The use of Acceptance and commitment therapy for the treatment of adolescents with major depression is recommended to all psychologists, consultants, and psychiatrists.

The objective of this study was to compare family functioning, cognitive emotion regulation strategies and academic performance of female students with and without oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) by controlling birth order in students of primary schools of Ahwaz City. The study type was causal-comparative. The population for this study was female students in the sixth grade of primary schools of Ahvaz who were enrolled in the academic year 2014-2015. From this population, a sample of 50 students with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), were selected by multistage random cluster and simple sampling methods and the same number were selected from students without ODD. To collect the data, Child Behavior Checklist (parent form), the Family Assessment Device of Epstein, Baldwin and Bishop, Garnefski Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and to determine the academic performance, Grade Point Average were used. MANCOVA results showed that there is significant differences in family functioning, cognitive emotion regulation strategies and academic performance between female students with oppositional defiant disorder and students without ODD. ODD students had lower performance in family functioning, positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and academic performance than students without ODD, but were higher in negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies.

This study was performed to examine the effects of training and correction of couple beliefs of marital relation in order to enhance the marital satisfaction of young couples. At first Marital beliefs of couples were examined and then cognitive intervention started to train and correct thinking and beliefs. In this research involved 20 people, 10 couples that were selected accessibly among student couples of Tarbiat Modares University residency in dormitory. By an invitation couples with lower rates of marital satisfaction were participated and then appointed randomly in control and experiment groups after being matched. Each test foiled 3 times in pretest (before intervention), post test (at the end of intervention), and follow up (after 50 days from intervention), by both experiment and control groups. The results were analyzed by one way co variance method. Comparing the results from experiment and control group showed that cognitive intervention in marital beliefs of young couples students residency in Tehran’s dormitories can enhance their marital satisfaction significantly.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of group positive psychotherapy on happiness and hope in patients with vitiligo. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, and a control group. The statistical population consisted of all referrers of Kashmar's men and women who had PCI. By available sampling method, 30 individuals were selected. Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHI) and Schneider Hope Questionnaire were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (covariance analysis) were used to analyze the data. The findings showed that the mean scores of happiness and hope in the post-test of the experimental group were significantly higher than the mean of post-test scores in the control group. Based on the findings of this study, positive group psychotherapy is an effective treatment for increasing hope and happiness in vitiligo patients.

The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion regulation techniques training on alexithymia in soldiers. This research was a clinical trial designed with pre-test, post-test and one-month follow-up. The population included all soldiers of a military unit located in Tehran in 1395. A number of 350 soldiers were selected by convenience sampling, and answered the Toronto alexithymia questionnaire. Then 66 individuals with the highest scores placed randomly into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group attended eight 90-minute emotion regulation techniques training sessions twice a week and the control group were put in the waiting list. After the intervention, the post-test conducted on both groups. The data was analyzed using SPSS-22. The results of two-factor variance analysis showed that emotion regulation techniques training reduced alexithymia in soldiers. It seems that emotion regulation techniques training can be a useful solution to prevent emotional problems by modifying maladaptive emotion regulation strategies.