فصلنامه پژوهش های روان شناسی اجتماعی
پیاپی 29 (بهار 1397)

  The relationship between spirituality and social support with mental health and death anxiety in the elderly needs further study. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between spirituality and social support with mental health and death anxiety in the elderly. In this study which was carried out with a correlation method, 350 elders living in Tehran completed questionnaires. Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), Templar Death Anxiety Scale, Parsian and Doning Spirituality Questionnaire, and Philip Social Support Questionnaire were used as measuring tools. Data was analyzed using Pearson correlational analysis and multiple regression analysis.
Finding: The relationship between mental health and death anxiety with spirituality and social support was significant. Spirituality was able to significantly predict mental health (β = -0/406, >P 0/0001) and death anxiety (β = -0/233, >P 0/0001). Also, social support could predict mental health (β = -0/349, >P 0/0001) and death anxiety (β = -0/286, >P 0/0001) These findings reveal the importance of spirituality and social support as preventative factors related to mental health problems and the anxiety of elderly death

  The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal relationship of appreciation with academic performance and life satisfaction by mediating social support dimensions (teachers, parents and classmates) among students of Payame Noor University. The statistical population of this research includes all male and female students of Payame Noor University of Ahwaz in the academic year 1396. From this community, 312 people were selected by random sampling method. To collect data, gratitude questionnaire by sevari(1396), social support of parents, teachers and classmates by sevari (1396), life satisfaction of Diner, Amoun, Larsen and Griffin (1985) and grade gained were used. Data analysis was done by path analysis. The results showed that appreciation of academic performance, life satisfaction, social support of parents, teachers, classmates and social support of class members on educational performance and social support of parents and teachers on life satisfaction is significant. From the two indirect hypotheses, the hypothesis of indirect relation was appreciated with academic performance by mediating social support of parents and professors. It can be deduced from this study that in order to strengthen academic performance, life satisfaction, social support of parents, faculty members and classmates, the issue of appreciation of others should be taken seriously and tried to achieve it to others. On the other hand, and given that social support of class members has affected educational performance, it is very important to pay attention to social support of parents and teachers for the satisfaction of life

  School bullying is now an epidemic that affects millions of students. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to develop a social adjustment curriculum and its effectiveness on the bullying rate of secondary school students. The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The study population consisted of all boys' secondary school students in the academic year of 1969-94. Using cluster sampling, 30 subjects (15 experimental and 15 control group) were selected and collected. The data responded to the Illinois bullying scale (2001). The experimental group received 10 sessions of 90 minutes and for 5 consecutive weeks (2 sessions per week) under the social adjustment program and the control group received no intervention. Data were analyzed using covariance analysis. The results of this study showed that social adjustment programs had a significant effect on student bullying (η = 0.52, p <0/000, f = 28/94). Overall, the results showed the effectiveness of the social adjustment program as an effective method for bullying bullying in boys. It is suggested that this program be put on the agenda of custodians of education and educational institutions to counteract and reduce the behavior of bullying people in schools

People deal with different kinds of phenomena in their life and behave by the specific methods when they get recognition of them which is known as attitude. This study is done with the aim of finding a relationship between personality characteristics in HEXACO model and political attitude. Sample population of the study in Tehran citizenry and Cochran formula and available method is used for choosing the sample. 372 persons of them are selected and HEXACO-60 and political attitude questionnaires are used for Gathering variables which is personality characteristics in the criteria is political attitude. For analyzing data used providing frequency table average, variance , Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multivariable regression analysis. According to the purpose of the study which is Pearson correlation coefficient test showed that it is possible to claim with high certainty 99 percent that positive meaningful correlation exists between honesty-humility, openness and agreeableness characteristics and political attitude and negative meaningful correlation between conscientiousness characteristics with political attitude but there is not any meaningful relationship for emotionality and extraversion characteristics and stepwise regression analysis showed among HEXACO personality characteristics honesty-humility, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness predict about 66% of political attitude variable changes through analysis of findings, it is concluded that characteristics due to effects of their facets and environmental reciprocal impact of them keep their relationship with political attitude and has a predictive role in determining political attitudes. in addition because of days durability characteristics give persistence color to inherent transition views of human being

The present study aims to study students vandalism and its relation with the rate of using modern media (the Internet and allowed social networks), adherence to values (family, religious, and socio-cultural values) and the sense of anomie or anomalies (economic, social, cultural, and political anomies). The present study uses a survey research (with correlation design). The statistical population consisted of all 7000 students of AzarbaijanShahidMadani University in academic year 2017-2018. The sample size was estimated using Cochran formula as 364 participants who were selected via stratified sampling method. The data collection instruments were the Self-Report Vandalism Scale developed byAliverdinia et al. (2014), the Adherence to Values Scale developed by Rasoulzadeh Aghdam et al. (2015) and the Sense of Anomie Questionnaire of Naderi et al. (2010). Statistical analysis of the research findings was conducted via the Pearson correlation test, multivariate regression, and structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques. The results of the research indicated that there is a significant inverse correlation between adherence to values (family, religious, and social-cultural values) and students vandalism, while there is a direct correlation between the rate of anomie feeling (economic, social, cultural, political and anomie) and vandalism. In addition, there is a direct weak correlation between the use of students from the Internet and their vandalism. Moreover, independent variables in the research regression model can explain 21% of the variations in students’ vandalism

  The capitalistic view at human capacities has expanded dramatically in recent years in line with the development of a positive approach to psychology. This research was administered with the aim of investigating structural model of the relationship between social collective investment with affective collective investment and job performance among teachers. Research method was correlation and research statistical population was the primary school teachers in Borkhar district in Isfahan city, among them two hundred and ninety persons were selected using simple random sampling. Research instrument were included social collective investment (Golparvar, 2017), affective collective investment (Golparvar, 2017) and job performance (Vigoda-Gadot et al, 2007). Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling (SEM). Results revealed that there is a positive significant relationship between social collective investment with affective collective investment and job performance (p<0.01), and between affective collective investment with job performance (p<0.01). Results of structural equation modeling and mediation analysis indicated that affective collective investment is a complete mediator on the relationship between social collective investment and job performance. In general, the results of current research showed that trough social collective investment and affective collective investment we can enhance teachers’ job performance

This research aimed the Developing empathy skills program based on social cognition and study of it`s effectiveness on prosocial behavior in airport service staff. This research is a kind of semi experimental study with pre-test, post-test and follow-up with the control group. The research population consisted of all Airport Services staff of Iran Air employed at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. 24 persons of cargo service purposefully were divided into two experimental and control groups. Then prosocial personality questionnaire (pbs) was performed on both groups. The experimental group received empathy skills in eight sixty-minute session. While members of the control group received no training. Data analysis showed that the experimental group compared with the control group after the meetings, found a significant increase in prosocial behavior (α=0.05). Finally, the findings showed that empathy skills training program based on social cognition could be used as an effective therapeutic-intervention program to improve prosocial behaviors in airport services staff.