مجله پژوهش های علوم شناختی و رفتاری
سال هشتم شماره 2 (پیاپی 15، پاییز و زمستان 1397)

For most people family and career are two main domain of their life. Studies have shown that employees in the face of job stress and strain, show different patterns of work-related behavior that may be healthy or unhealthy and affect the other aspect of their life. The aim of present study was to comparison of work – family conflict among people with healthy (G: good health pattern, S: sparing pattern) and unhealthy (A: ambitious pattern, B: burnout pattern) Patterns of work behavior. Statistical population were the all of employees of Esfahan Oil Refining Company that 145 of them selected by stratified random sampling and responded to research tools. The instruments were the measure of work–family conflict (Carlson, Kacmar & Williams, 2000) and Work-related Behavior and Experience Patterns Questionnaire (Schaarschmidt & Fischer, 2003). The data were analyzed using one way variance analyze. Results showed that 20 of the sample has G pattern, 29 S pattern, 49 A pattern A and 47 B pattern and G and S types have lower means of work-family conflict than A type (p=0/003). According on the results, the patterns of work-related behavior of employees in the face of their work stress and strain, affect their experience of work-family conflict.Therefore, it is necessary to check employees' behavior patterns and make interventions to modify them.

This study examined the effectiveness of Mothers’ Compassion focused training on Behavioral problems in Theirs Preschool children with neuropsychological/ developmental learning disabilities. This study employed a semi-experimental method and used a pre-test, post-test, and follow up design with experimental and control group. The population consisted of all mothers of pre-school children with neuropsychological/developmental learning disabilities in Mobarakeh Township during academic year of 2016-2017. By using convenience sampling method, 30 of them were selected and randomly were divided in to two experimental groups and one control group (n=15). The tools of this study were the checklist of signs of learning disabilities in pre-school children (Steele, 2004) and the Preschool Children’s Behavioral Problems (Shahim & Yousefi, 1999). The experimental group (children’s mothers) received 8 sessions of intervention (two session per week for 90 minutes). The results indicated that the CFT is effective on the reduction of behavioral problems (F=16.489, DF=23, P

The crucially important role of working memory in the daily activities of human life and education has led researchers to devise ways to improve working memory. The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of instructing self- regulation strategies on processing efficiency and working memory function among female high school students. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental, pre-test, post-test with a control group. Software information processing index and N-Back software have been used as the research tools. The statistical population consisted of all high school female students in Yasouj city in the academic year of 2016-2017, that a 30 sample of students was selected through multi-stage cluster sampling and assigned to two groups of experimental and control. After the pre-test, the experimental group was trained for 12 sessions based on the Pintrich model, and the control group did not receive any training. Again, two groups were evaluated with post-test. Data analysis was performed using MANCOVA. The results showed that the post-test of the processing efficiency and working memory performance has significant difference between the two groups. This indicated that the processing efficiency and working memory performance in the experimental group increased after the training of self-regulation. Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that training self-regulation strategies can increase the processing efficiency and students' working memory performance.

Anxiety disorders are the most common categories of psychological disorders. The present research has conducted with the aim of comparing the impulsivity, perceive the controllability, and perceive and generate the cognitive alternatives in adolescents with generalized anxiety and social anxiety. The research was a study with causal-comparative design. The population was the first high middle school students of Khorramabad city. The examined sample selected using convenience sampling, and conducted impulsivity, cognitive flexibility, generalized anxiety and social anxiety scales for them. Then two groups with generalized anxiety and social anxiety were selected based on the cut of point scores of generalized anxiety and social anxiety scales, and were compared in impulsivity, perceive the controllability, and perceive and generate the cognitive alternatives. The analysis by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) indicated a significant difference in the linear composition of dependent variables of these two anxious groups. Univariate analysis of variance also indicated that adolescents with social anxiety had more ability to perceive and generate cognitive alternatives compared to adolescents with generalized anxiety (Individuals with generalized anxiety had more difficulties in this component). This difference existed in females and not in males of two anxious groups. In impulsivity and perceiving controllability, there were not significant differences between the two groups. In conclusion, adolescents, specially, females with generalized anxiety and social anxiety are different in cognitive flexibility (perceive and generate cognitive alternatives). So, their diagnosis and appraisal, and also their therapeutic programs must conduct regarding these differences.

This study examined the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention program on stereotypic behaviors of children with high functioning autism spectrum disorder. The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test design with an experimental and control group. The statistical population included all children10-15 years with a high functioning autism spectrum disorder in Esfahan city in the year 2017. The sample was 30 children with high functioning autism spectrum disorder who were recruited by purposive sampling and randomly were divided into an experimental and control group (n=15). The tools of this study were the Repetitive Behavior Scales of Boldfish and colleagues (2000). The experimental group received 29 sessions of intervention (three sessions per week for 60 minutes). The educators of participants of both groups have completed the scale through individually interviewing. In this study, data were analyzed by analysis of covariance. Results showed that the Mindfulness-based intervention program had a significant effect on reducing the dimensions of Subjects stereotyped behaviors (repetitive behavior, Self-injurious behavior, Compulsive behavior, Sameness Behavior, Ritualistic behavior, Restricted behavior) (p < 0/001). it was observed that a mindfulness-based intervention program can be used to reduce the stereotyped behaviors of children with a high-performance autism spectrum disorder. Covariance analysis showed that a Mindfulness-Based intervention program had a significant effect on the level of all aspects of Stereotypic behaviors in children with high functioning autism spectrum disorder. Overall, it was observed that a mindfulness-based intervention program can be used to reduce stereotyped behaviors of children with a high-performance autism spectrum disorder.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships of personality and life satisfaction with a mediator role of positive and negative affects and life goals. The statistical population of this study is all adults in the 6th district of Tehran in 2016. The sample consisted of 400 adults (25 to 60 years old), residing in Zone 6 in Tehran, that were selected using method multi-stage random sampling. Participants responded to questionnaires of positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, questionnaire Big five Personality Factor and life goals. Data were analyzed by path analysis and LISREL software. Results showed intrinsic goals and positive affect played a mediator role to conscientiousness, extraversion, openness, and agreeableness with life satisfaction, and had a direct effect upon life satisfaction but negative affect and extrinsic goals did not play a mediator role and had no direct effect upon life satisfaction. Also, extraversion and neuroticism had a direct effect on life satisfaction. There was no indirect effect between Neuroticism and life satisfaction and 21 percent variance in life satisfaction is predicted by the model. As a result, it can be argued that attention to intrinsic goals and positive affect are very important in the relationship between personality traits and life satisfaction.