نشریه مطالعات اسلام و روان شناسی
پیاپی 23 (پاییز و زمستان 1397)

This study aimed to analyze the content of elementary school textbooks "Gifts of Heaven" based on the multiple intelligence components. The present study was a content analysis research that applied the Shannon's entropy model. The sample included all elementary school textbooks "Gifts of Heaven"; thus, a checklist of multiple intelligence components (Gardner and Fleetham) which its content validity had been verified by 5 experts was applied. The significance coefficient of each component is, respectively, as follows: the existential intelligence (0.121); bodily-kinesthetic, linguistic, and naturalistic intelligences (0.119); spatial intelligence (0.118); interpersonal intelligence (0.116); intrapersonal intelligence (0.115); logical-mathematical intelligence (0.108); and musical intelligence (0.064). The highest significance coefficient is related to the fourth and sixth grades of the elementary school with a significance coefficient of 0.206 and the lowest is related to the fifth grade of the elementary school with a significance coefficient of 0.191. Therefore, the balance of the content of elementary school textbooks "Gifts of Heaven" has not been respected

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the components of attitude to religion and self-compassion among old men; thus, 300 old men were selected from the Mehregan Old People's Home in the city of Kermanshah by the simple random sampling. They answered the questionnaires of self-compassion (a short-form) and the Muslims' attitude to religion. The data were analyzed with both of the Pearson correlation coefficient and the regression analysis (stepwise method). The findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the components of religiosity and self-compassion. The components of attitude to religion, including personal help, Islamic attitude, and Islamic rites, can significantly predict 23% of the old men's self-compassion. Therefore, it can be possible to increase the self-compassion by increasing the religiosity and as a result, to improve the old men's ability to cope with mental diseases and life problems

This research aimed to present an elementary comprehensive framework for Islamic psychology (Quran-Based) as a psychological school. The main question of this research was what kind of content, structure, and roadmap Islamic psychology would have. For replying that question, first, the history and literature of Islamic psychology were collected and then they were reviewed through a theoretical (not statistical) meta-analysis method. Some of the findings include a) the research problems and subjects should be obtained from the Islamic society and texts; b) Islamic psychology has its own basic concepts; c) Islamic psychology has obvious differences and similarities in comparison to contemporary psychology; and d) Islamic psychology has a roadmap which coherently brings together all components of a psychological school (such as definition, subject, method, theoretical objectives, applied objectives, problems, basic concepts, and its relation with other Islamic and human sciences).

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of the couples' gender roles and personality types A & B with the family efficiency. This correlational study is a descriptive research. The population was the 5-7 grade religious students and their spouses in the city of Qom in 2015-2016. 240 students including 120 couples were selected by the cluster sampling and responded to the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), personality types A & B (Rosenman & Friedman) questionnaire, and Safurayi Family Efficiency Questioner based on Islamic view (SFEQI). The Pearson correlation test showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the Androgenic gender role and the family efficiency. There is a negative and significant relationship between indistinct gender role and the family efficiency. The distinct gender roles including masculine and feminine do not have a significant relationship with the family efficiency. There is a positive and significant relationship between the personality type B and the family efficiency and a negative and significant relationship between the personality type A and the family efficiency

This research aimed to investigate the effect of Quran recitation on the mental health among students studying medicine. The research applied a quasi-experimental method and pretest-posttest design with a control group. The population was the boy students of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences and 30 students were selected by the convenience sampling as the sample. They were placed into the test and control groups (each group contained 15 students). The GeneralHealth Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was performed at two levels of pretest and posttest for both groups. The test group listened to the Quran recitation during 15 thirty-minute sessions after the pretest, then the posttest was done and the data were analyzed by the analysis of co-variance. The results demonstrated that the Quran recitation has a positive effect on the mental health of test group

This study had been conducted with the aim of analyzing the content of 134 articles published in 19 issues of "Bi-Annual Journal of Islam and Psychology Studies" during 2007-2016. The data were collected by a check list and analyzed with the help of Excel software. The validity of check list was confirmed by the experts. According to the findings, 76% of the authors were men; 36.84% of the articles were done by a team of three authors; 35% of the authors had both a master's degree and a third-level seminary's degree; the most authors' affiliation was related to the seminary (24.76%) and the University of Isfahan (21.82%); the most articles were employed a quantitative paradigm (56.72%); the most topics were about the applications of psychology in Islamic society (17 cases); the most authors' scientific rank belonged to the assistant professors (71 cases); the most references were related to the Latin papers (1838 cases); in the articles, the most data-collection tool was a questionnaire which had been made or performed (88 cases); in the articles, 440 theories were applied that 333 theories had only been raised once