فصلنامه مطالعات اجتماعی - روان شناختی زنان
سال هفدهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 58، بهار 1398)

Folkloric lullabies form an important part of the oral and linguistic literature of every culture and society. This section of oral literature, due to the close relationship with women, is a valuable resource for understanding women social and cultural status in traditional and pre-modern societies. This study, based on feminist approach, focused on gender, explores the context of Sabzevar's lullabies. The method of this research was qualitative approach of ethnography to access first hand data. The results of this article suggest that lullabies in traditional and patriarchal societies are among the few foundations for women to move in opposition to the dominant discourse of society. In folkloric lullabies, women are empowered to recognize their social status and their experience of living in patriarchal society and to reduce and relieve tensions and pressures as active subjects in the male-dominated discourses.

Divorce, with its increasing rate, is still an important social problem to investigate. Due to importance of family for its members and society, any disintegration of it can be serious. Women and their reasons to initiate the divorce is a crucial topic to be studied. This study has investigated gender and its changes over time as well as transitions in identity and agency of women. Besides, it focuses on narratives of divorce from women’s perspective. For this purpose, a sample of 28 women with at least one experience of marriage and divorce were selected. The findings show that there are three stages in women’s narration about marriage and divorce; none-calm entrance, perilous continuation and stressful exit. This situation occurs on an intersection of the role of individual (woman) and structure (gender) in three stages including prior to marriage, during marital life and the beginning of divorce. Women’s narration of divorce has focused on the important of gender roles changes in providing the opportunity to terminate the marital life.

Considering humans as one of the most important resources of the organization, using their knowledge is of high value in every organization. The current study considers the effect of cooperative organizational atmosphere on sharing knowledge with the moderating role of intrinsic motivation and job autonomy in female professors of Allameh Tabataba’i  University. The study is a descriptive survey on 97 female professors of Allameh Tabataba’i University. Reliability and validity of the research tool were tested using factor loading, Coronbach’ alpha, composite reliability, face validity, convergent validity, and divergent validity. Data was analyzed using SPSS and Smart-pls. The results of the research showed that the cooperative organizational atmosphere has a considerable positive effect on knowledge sharing of the faculty members of Allameh Tabataba'i University. The intrinsic motivation has a moderating role in the relationship between cooperative organizational atmosphere and sharing knowledge, while Job autonomy doesn’t play any role in moderating the relationship between the cooperative organizational atmosphere and knowledge sharing.

Women naturally have a desire for procreation and reproduction. Becoming a mother is one of their main needs, and women who are not naturally able to bear child will be involved with many personal and social problems. The present study aims was to investigate the effect of the role and dimensions of religion and distress tolerance in predicting the psychological safety of infertile women. The present study was a descriptive study of correlation type which was conducted on infertile women referred to Novin infertility center in Mashhad. To this end, 89 infertile women eligible to participate in the study were selected using available sampling. The research instruments were spiritual attitude (Shahidi and Farajnia, 2012), psychological security questionnaire (Maslow, 1952) and distress tolerance scale (Simmons and Gaher, 2005). Statistical analysis was performed using Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis with SPSS and Lisrel software. The results showed that between two aspects of religion, the spiritual empowerment component, as well as the dimensions of distress tolerance, attraction and evaluation, can significantly predict mental security. Religion and emotional distress tolerance affect psychological security of infertile women. Reliance on God and spiritual resources can increase people's psychological security and as a result, they have a greater sense of control and mastery of conditions.

Today, Social networks have provided their users with new chance of connecting with people with easy and instant communication tools.  Despite their benefits, they may harm their users in different ways. In present study, the relationship between harmful use of these social media by mothers and their marital satisfaction, maternal bond with children as well as behavioral disorders of their children was investigated. For this purpose, 323 mothers with pre-school children were selected by convenience sampling. Data was collected using prepared Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) and Child-Parent Relationship Scale.The findings of the research showed that harmful use of SN has negative and meaningful relationship with marital satisfaction. Besides, there is a negative and significant relationship between use of SN and mother-child relationship. On the other hand, marital satisfaction has a direct and significant relationship with mother-child relationship and mother-child relationship has a negative and significant relationship with children's behavioral disorders. No significant relationship was found between use of SN and children's behavioral problems. According to results, harmful use of SN can reduce marital satisfaction, which leads to decrease in mother-child relationship quality and consequently behavioral disorders in children.