نشریه روان شناسی فرهنگی زن
پیاپی 35 (بهار 1397)

According to discourse theory, the world is the product of competition between different discourses. So the controversy between discourses is the driving force of history and political life of human societies and the rivalry between ancient, traditional, constitutional, Pahlavi, and Imam Khomeini's discourse about women signifiers is not exception of this law. This article, by adopting the theory and method of analyzing of discourse seeks to answer this question: what is the difference between the identity and position of the woman signifier in the discourse of Imam Khomeini with previous discourses in Iranian history? It is assumed that the discourse of Imam Khomeini, in contrast to previous discourses that have neglected either attention to religion or human beings mean and express women based on a universal identity consistent with Islamic-Iranian culture. The results of the analysis show that Imam Khomeini, while rejecting the schematic view of women in the Constitutional and Pahlavi discourses that influenced by the thought of modernity, directly and indirectly criticized the theoretical principle of traditional discourse about inequality between men and women and attempts to explain the humanity position of woman and equality of her right based on time- compatible understanding from the religion.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role and position of Palestinian women in the poet of Haroon Hashem Rashid. Regarding the important role of women in the fight scene, in this research it was attempted to examine the most important aspects of women's persistence in the book of ' Wardeh Ala al-Jabin Al-Quds'. Haroon Hashem is a Palestinian poet who has paid special attention to presence of women and their perseverance in the path of resistance. The research method was descriptive-analytic and it was developed by reviewing. The results of this study, based on examination of available documents, showed that Haroon Hashem rarely expresses romantic feelings and emotions of women and their apparent beauty and most of his poetry themes were description of debasement rejection, responsibility and patience of Palestinian women. He believes that Palestinian women are symbol of patience and endurance and they never give up, and in the absence of their spouse, they bear the responsibility of growing up and educating their children to give an ideal generation to their community. Therefore, poet with true emotions kept his poetry away from material aspect and brough his poetic language closer to the virtuous poetry.

The present study aim was to investigate the feminist Ghazaleh Alizadeh point of views and examine the woman's image in her works. Feminist criticism was emerged as a serious, distinguished, and integrated approach in the European literature in the late 1960s, and its aim was identification of cultural roles and great achievements in acquiring women’s social and political rights. This method was developed in Iran in the beginning of 1960s by the novels written by Simin Daneshvar and continued by authors such as Shahrnoush Parsipour, Zoya Pirzad, and Ghazaleh Alizadeh. This study considered the feminist criticism of novels by Ghazaleh Alizadeh, and the women’s characterizations were analyzed with regards to content analysis. By reviewing these works, the readers would realize that Alizadeh has mainly exposed women to socio-political events after the Islamic revolution. With moderate viewpoints, she has criticized the solitude of women in the community, and by a mystic and theosophical approach, she has tried to highlight the roles and contribution of women in the social history of Iran.

The current research was conducted with the goal of investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction on cognitive flexibility and coping styles of women in female-headed households covered by Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Rasht. 30 of whom were selected through convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (15 ones) and control (15 ones). The research method was a quasi-experimental and pre-test and post-test design with control group was used.  The experimental group participated in 8 sessions 90-minutes of mindfulness based stress reduction training. To collect data the Dennis and Vonderval (2010) Cognitive Flexibility Questionnaire and  Jaloveys and Powers (1984) Coping Styles Questionnaire were utilized. The gathered data were analyzed using covariance MANCOVA analysis. Results showed the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction on flexibility of cognitive and coping style and there was a significant difference between the two groups (P<0/001).

The purpose of this article was to extract the effective female-gender components in the style of the “Acacia's Alley” novel written by Raziyeh Tojar. According to preliminary results, these components were: female language, feminine affection and cultural issues related to women in this novel. The female language in this novel was characterized by the repetition of words or parts of sentences to stress the desired emotional sense. In this novel, most women refuse to use definitive words and their discourse was infused with a bit of prolongation. The presence of more than 298 color-related terms and the frequency of using different colors with their details in the language of novel’s characters has bestowed a feminine flavor to this novel. Moreover, the motherly affection represented one of the strongest forms of emotions in this novel. Underusing of curses emphasized its feminine style here, for reasons such as cultural and educational poverty of women in ambiguous situations, a tendency towards superstitions and folk beliefs had gained prominence. In this novel, there were various examples of cultural and social issues, which showed that women's social rights were not equal to men.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and trans-diagnostic factors with sexual function disorder in women. For this purpose, in a descriptive-correlational study, 231 women referred to health centers in Mashhad in 2016 were selected by available convenience sampling method. The participants completed Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item Scale (GAD-7) (2006), Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire (2008), Intolerance Of Uncertainty Scale (1994), Metacognition Questionnaire (2004), Acceptance And Action Questionnaire-II (2011), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2006) and Female Sexual Function Index (2000). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and sexual dysfunction in women. Also, there was a significant relationship between trans-diagnostic factors and sexual dysfunction in women. Finally, the results indicated that symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and related factors of trans-diagnostic (intolerance of uncertainty and maladaptive adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies) predicted the symptoms of sexual dysfunction in women.

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between humor and difficulty in regulating excitement and the quality of marital relationship in female nurses. The population of this study was all married female nurses in Ahwaz city hospitals. A sample of 180 nurses were selected through simple random sampling. The research was descriptive-correlational. Data were collected by Norton Marriage Quality Questionnaire (1983), Sadat Khoshui and colleagues Humor Questionnaire (2009) and Grats and Romer's (2004) Emotional Regulation Scale. Data analysis was performed via using Pearson's simple correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The results of simple correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant correlation between humor and difficulty components in emotional regulation, including the component of non-acceptance of emotional responses, problems in the management of targeted behaviors, problems with impulse control, lack of emotional awareness, lack of access to emotional regulation strategies and lack of emotional clarity with the quality of marital relationship. The results of stepwise regression analysis revealed that the variables of humor, the components of problems in the management of targeted behaviors, lack of emotional awareness, and the component of problems in controlling the impulse were the significant most important predictors of the marital quality of female nurses.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the most important barriers affecting the employment of rural women. The statistical population included all rural women in Zorkouh city in 2017 (19737 individuals according to the latest census); 358 of them were selected using simple sampling method. The research design was comparative descriptive. The data were collected by implementing a researcher-initiated questionnaire for measuring the barriers of women's employment. To analyze the data, multivariate analysis of variance was used. The results showed that there was a significant difference between employed and housewives in social and cultural barriers (P = 0.003), educational management barriers (P = 0.048) and technical barriers (P = 0.001), but there was no any significant difference in economic barriers (P = 0.999), psychological barriers (P = 0.440) and policy barriers (P = 0.084).