نشریه مطالعات زن و خانواده
سال هفتم شماره 3 (زمستان 1398)

Women's studies degree has been established in Iran as a master degree in 1380, after ten years Ph.d program was approved. The ups and downs of academic process of women's studies was required to examine its scientific status. In this regard, this paper attempts to discover the challenges and approaches of women's studies by a qualitative method and interviewing twenty experts. At next step, we analyze the data through content analysis techniques and coding all interviews. Our findings indicate that some of the challenges are as follow: unstructured academic discipline, curriculum problems and defects, non-expert and inefficient reviews, lack of qualified professors, incorrect admission, lack of scientific expertise and graduates' efficiency, lack of suitable jobs for graduates, opposite Approaches, lack of theorizing, dissemination of university-government interaction in women's studies, the inefficiency of the field in providing solutions for women's issues and its full impact from politics. The experts had some suggestions on approaches and solutions, some of them are: Specialized review of the curriculum, improve the academic structure of discipline, experienced professors, systematic admission process, interaction between university and effective institutions on women's issues and link between different intellectual schools in women studies.

The purpose of this research was to examine the efficacy of solution- focused narrative couple therpay and brief self- regulation couple therapy on liveliness and affectons control of couples. The research method was uasi-experimental with Pretest , Posttest and cotrol group. The statistical society consisted of the clients of the centers: kimia, besharat, tamasha and tohid of Isfahan city in 1396 who referred to these centers due to communication and marital problems. Among them, 24 couples (48 persons) were selected through available sampling from among couples. Then, 8 couples (16 persons) were randomly assigned to three groups and the couples of the experimental groups were paired separatly every week solution focused- narrative couple therpay (8 weeks) and brief self- regulation couple therapy (8weeks).). The subjects' data were collected by the scales of affections control of Williams & Chambles (1997) and liveliness of Deci & Ryan (1997). Results of covariance analysis indicated that the differences among the groups were significant. Results of BENFERONY follow-up test indicated that there is not a significant difference betwen the solution-focused narrative couple therapy and the brief self- regulation couple therapy to increase the liveliness and affections control of couples and its sub-scales (anger, positive affection, depressed mood and anxiety). The results indicated that the solution- focused narrative couple therapy and the brief self- regulation couple therapy were effective in increasing of liveliness and affections control of couples.

The purpose of this review is to compare the differential effectiveness of the positive couple therapy and the integrative behavioral couple therapy on marital adjustment. This was a semi-experimental study with pretest, post-test, and follow-up assessments. The statistical population included all couples referring to counseling centers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in 1396. A total of 30 couples (60 individuals) were selected using convenience sampling method considering inclusion criteria; they were then randomly assigned into experimentals (N = 40) and control (N = 20) groups. The research tools were Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS). Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The findings showed that both methods of couple therapy had been effective on marital adjustment and also in the follow-up phase. The results showed that in the post-test and follow up stages, there were no significant differences between the effects of these two therapeutic methods in marital adjustment. Therefore, considering the effectiveness of both positive couple therapy and integrated behavioral couple therapy, these two methods can be used to improve marital adjustment of couples. However, due to the lack of research on positive couple therapy and the novelty of this method more research is needed in this topic.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between family communication patterns, parental religiosity and tendency to cognitive thinking in children. The statistical population of the first and second grade girls was high school students in Qom. The sample included 447 students of humanities, mathematics and experimental, which were selected by available sampling method. The research method is descriptive and in terms of the relationship between variables is a correlation type. For collecting data, the Parental Religious Questionnaire (Grankvist 1998), Family Communication Patterns (Richie Fitzpatrick, 1990), Critical Thinking (Rickets, 2003), and Religious Humor (Lotf Abadi, 2002) were used .Pearson correlation analysis and stepwise regression were used to analyze the data.The results showed that the variables of parenting religiosity, the dimension of creativity from critical thinking and conservation orientation, has the potential of predicting the religious identity of adolescence. Other variables include the dimension of perfection and commitment of the critical thinking variable and the dimension of the alignment orientation no entered into the equation .

The aim of current study was predicting emotional divorce based on decision- making styles and power structure of the family among employed women of the Shahrood city. In this descriptive-correlational study, all employed women in Shahrood city were considered as statistical population and among them 384 people were considered as statistical sample using Morgan table and also multi-stage sampling. Data were collected using standard questionnaires of decision making styles of Scott and Bruce (1995), Power Structure of Mahdavi and Khosroshahi (2003), as well as Gottman's emotional divorce (1995). After collecting questionnaires, data was analyzed using correlation and regression tests. The results of this study showed that The results of this study showed that the beta coefficient for immediate, avoidance, intuitive and dependent decision making styles is positive, but negative for rational decision making style. Also, the outcomes revealed that among the various dimensions of decision making styles, intuitive and rational decision-making styles are one of the most important predictors of emotional divorce. It was also founded that there is a meaningful relationship between the subsystems of power structure and emotional divorce, and all three dimensions of "method of exercising power", "building power relations" and "domains and scope of power" have ability of predicting emotional divorce. Considering the high average score in emotional divorce, appropriate measures are needed to reduce the effects and symptoms of emotional divorce to improving the marital relationships of employed women in Shahrood

Agency is multifunctional instruments include the growth of three areas of economic conditions and other decisions about the family, especially men, the freedom of movement in public spaces and the expression of individual views about the equality of roles towards men. Despite broad assumptions about the empowerment and empowerment of women in Iran, sociological research is limited to these structures. The purpose of this study was to identify factors related to the agency of women in the community with emphasis on the city of Kermanshah. This study was conducted by survey method and a researcher-made questionnaire on 400 married women in Kermanshah. In order to estimate the reliability of the research tool, Cronbach's alpha, and for the validity of face validity, also used for analyzing the data, the means of comparison tests and correlation coefficients were used. To test the experimental model, multiple regression was used. The results show that variables such as age (r = 0.26), self-esteem (r = 0.177), mass media use (0.33) = r), place of birth (f = 512.5), attitude toward childbirth (r = -0.25), and relative deprivation (R = -0.19) has a significant effect on women's agency. It should be noted that women's empowerment can lead to empowerment, the amount of power, and the choice of a suitable lifestyle and increase the cultural capital of women in society.

Breast cancer stands as the leading cause of cancer related mortality in women. Mammography screening can improve prevention and early detection of breast cancer. increasing of rates of mammography screening includes different variables. So the purpose of This article changing Attitude, Subjective Norm, Perceived Behavioral Control, and mammography self-efficacy construct in order to increase intention and behavior of screening mammogram by an educational intervention in women. Among the women referred to the health centers of 1 and 2 areas in Arak, 300 women (40 – 60 year old) answered Mammography Self-Efficacy Scale and planned behavior theory questioner. Then 30 women were selected and divided into two groups of experimental and control. Experimental group received 3 sessions of training (60 minute in per session). then post test had performed for two groups and participants were followed up for mammography in two months. After the intervention, significant changes were detected in the intervention group in Mammography Self-Efficacy, attitude, Subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, intention and behavior of mammography during the time and experimental group compared to the control group showed significant difference in the scores of variables. Researchers may want to include self-efficacy mammography in addition to the TPB and other demographic characteristics in future applications to improvement health behavior.