نشریه روان شناسی فرهنگی زن
پیاپی 27 (بهار 1395)

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social skills and religious beliefs with emotional divorce on women who referred to psychological consultant centers in Ahwaz city. The sample subsumed 216 female who were selected by convenience sampling procedure. The research was planned as correlation design. To collect data Guttman Emotional Divorce Scale (1995), Social skills Questionnaire (Matson 1983) and Religious Orientation Questionnaire (Alport 1967) were implemented. To analyze data Pearson correlation coefficient and multi variable regression was applied. The results showed that there was negative significant relation between intrinsicc religious orientation  and the emotional divorce. There was not any significant relation between social skills and emotional divorce. The results also indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between extrinsic religious orientation and emotional divorce. The multivariate regression analysis showed that intrinsic religious orientation and social skills respectively predicted  the emotional divorce in women who referred to psychological consultant centers in Ahwaz city.

The aim of this research was to investigate the effective factors on the decline of women’s status after the demise of Islam’s prophet. The research design was analytical-descriptive with library method. The factors included first regression to the rituals, customs and traditions of ignorance period about woman, such as humiliating women and giving superiority to men. Second, dictatorship and autocracy of some rulers which resulted in the prevalence of immortality and lacking the growth of human virtue and finally vulnerabilities to the women; third, the prevalence of patriarchal thoughts in anticipating the problems about women and interpreting the  verses of Quran and Hadiths and narratives in a way of benefitting  to men and weakening  the women; fourth, mixing Islam culture and foreign culture that had no any value for women and influence of such thoughts into Muslims; fifth, prevalence of extremism and fanaticism in society and prohibiting  women’s cooperation in different social areas and even going to mosque; sixth, instrumental view to women as a tool for fun, entertainment and abuse; seventh, inattention to education of women and restricting them inside a house and depriving them from education and obtaining knowledge.

The aim of this research was to investigate people`s cultural and credential beliefs from the religions` history of pre-Islam period in naming women. In the recent research the data were gathered from ancient books of Iran, Avesta and Pahlavi Persian. The old texts from ancient times of Iran show Iranians` beliefs, creeds, and cultural, social, and historical indices of pre-Islam period. These ancient beliefs and creeds show a part of people`s attitudes to name women using some materialistic symbols like sky, sun, and stars, and from spiritual view, it shows their belief to Gods and to the ancient Goddesses. Some of the Gods are ancient ones. It means that they were worshiped before Zoroaster, and due to being benefited from the divinity and the link with the divine religions, they had the spiritual and legendry reflection in the culture of the society. The results of data analysis on the basis of the ancient texts, showed the significant relationship between theological- religious beliefs and historical- cultural creeds and also social acceptance to name women. There was also luckiness and holiness of religious beliefs among all the cultural information that had the most powerful effect on naming girls in the past times of Iran.