فصلنامه مددکاری اجتماعی
سال دهم شماره 38 (زمستان 1400)

Intimacy is the main issue in couple relationships. The couples would have taken the biggest step toward intimacy if their interpersonal relationship had been established correctly. This study identifies the effectiveness of the cognitive approach group social work intervention in improving interpersonal communication and increasing intimacy among married students in Meybod. 

The research design was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and a control group. The statistical population consisted of all married students in Meybod in the academic year of 2018-2019. The purposeful sampling method was used to select the sample, and thirty-two married students were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Marital intimacy and interpersonal relationships questionnaires were used to collect data. The results were analyzed by a multivariate covariance analysis test.

The results showed that social work intervention with a cognitive approach has a significant effect on improving interpersonal relationships and increasing marital intimacy of married students.(P≤ 0.001)

According to the results, it could be concluded that using this approach possibly helps married students with fewer problems in marital life and increased the quality of interpersonal communication so they can carry on with their student life.

Nowadays given the widespread bureaucratic systems in all social domains, and also the possibility of dominating through laws, norms, power relations, etc, one will increasingly witness these systems' negative consequences on individuals or employees. Thus, the present study investigated the contexts and consequences of expanding hospital bureaucratic processes on nurses' performance in Yazd, Iran.

This qualitative research used a grounded theory(GT) method. The target population was nurses in public hospitals in Yazd, and through a theoretical and purposeful sampling, twenty of them were selected and in-depth interviews were conducted. The theoretical sampling was continued until the data saturation stage. Data were analyzed using open, axial, and selective coding.

The findings included seventeen main categories (including nurses' lack of leisure time, malfunctions of non-meritocracy, control and exile of nurses, phobia of blood-money petitions, comparisons of failure, and conflicting social policies), and one core category (construction of dissociation bureaucracy), which were presented as the paradigmatic model, and theoretical schema.

The results showed that the dissociation bureaucracy is constructed as a result of widespread domination of the scaled bureaucracy, which is manifested in micro, middle, and macro scales within the hospitals. Encountering the domination of the scaled bureaucracy, nurses generally adopt a variety of strategies, including intentional transfer to other medical units, work dynamism, striving for a promotion, and long-term compatibility with the job. Nurses' reactions and resistance to the domination of the scaled bureaucracy, which are presented through various strategies, ultimately lead to consequences, including disruption in friendly social relations and material reflection in nursing.

Financial anxiety is a problem that can affect the lives of many people, including students, and play an important role in people's lives due to economic conditions, but it has been less addressed in the research literature. This study determines the mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between financial anxiety and life satisfaction in students.

The research method was correlation using structural equation modeling and the research population was the students of Yazd University. Two hundred fifty-five students were selected by the conventional method and filled out Archuleta, Dean, and Span financial anxiety, the Diner life satisfaction questionnaire, and Scherer and Maddox general self-efficacy questionnaire. AMOS software was used for the final evaluation of the model.

The findings showed that financial anxiety had a significant negative relationship with self-efficacy and life satisfaction, and self-efficacy had a significant positive relationship with life satisfaction. Also, the findings showed that the fit indicators of the conceptual model were acceptable after minor corrections and self-efficacy could play a mediating role in the relationship between financial anxiety and student life satisfaction.

Financial anxiety affects reducing students' life satisfaction by reducing self-efficacy.

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of enriched with compassion acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) on psychological well-being and suicidal tendency in adolescents with parents with chronic psychological illness.

This is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest/posttest design using a control group. The study population consists of all adolescents who have parents with chronic psychological illnesses aged between twelve and eighteen years in Yazd, Iran. A total of thirty adolescents were selected by the available sampling technique and were randomly assigned into groups of control and intervention each containing fifteen persons. The intervention group received acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) enriched with the compassion program during ten sessions of two hours, while the control group did not receive any intervention. Ryff’s psychological well-being scale (RPWBS), and Multi-attitude suicide tendency scale (MAST), were used to collect data. Post-test was performed on both experimental and control groups. Data were analyzed by covariance analysis. 

The findings showed that acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) enriched with compassion was effective on psychological well-being(f=22/67, p≤0/001) and reduce suicidal tendency(f=12/45, p≤0/002) in adolescents who have parents with chronic psychological disease.

We can conclude that acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) enriched with compassion was effective on psychological well-being and suicidal tendency in adolescents who have parents with chronic psychological disease.

Attitude towards marriage is closely related to marriage and indirectly related to the issue of fertility in the country. This study investigates the social factors affecting the attitude towards marriage among female students of Yazd University.

The present study is a cross-sectional study conducted in 2018. The research is correlational, and two-hundred female students living in Yazd University dormitory were selected by random sampling method. The Phillips social support questionnaire, the marriage attitude scale, and the Duke Religious questionnaire were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and multivariate regression.

The Pearson correlation test showed a significant relationship between attitude to marriage with social support and also attitude to marriage and religious attitude. The results showed that the prediction percentage of the variable is related to the variables of religious attitude (12%), household dimension (18%), and education level (22%) and in total, they have the greatest impact on the attitude towards marriage.

This research has shown that the higher the social support is the more positive attitudes toward marriage. According to the results of the study, the focus of cultural and social policymakers on the variables of religious attitude, level of education, and family size is suggested to a positive change in the attitude towards marriage and encourage more young people to marry.

The lived experience in prison is a situation that places women at greater risk of social exclusion more than any other social experience and imposes particular dimensions of social, cultural, and family deprivation. Thus, the current research tries to assess the effect of sociocultural factors on the social exclusion of women prisoners.

The method used in this study is survey-correlation research. The statistical society of this research is the female prisoners of Yazd and Shiraz cities. Due to the limited number of women prisoners who have been imprisoned more than once, a total of hundred eighteen prisoners were studied in Yazd and Shiraz.

The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between social exclusion of women prisoners and stigma, alienation, and gender discrimination.(P <0.05) The regression results also supported the significant effect between stigma and social exclusion of women prisoners and twenty-seven and seven-tenths of the variance of the rate of social exclusion of women prisoners is explained by the stigma variable.

Women prisoners who do not follow the norms of society are more alienated, face more gender discrimination, suffer more stigma. Therfore meet more exclusion from family, relatives, and friends. They face more obstacles and limitations for their emotional and material needs, presence in society.