مجله پژوهش های علوم شناختی و رفتاری
سال دوازدهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 22، بهار و تابستان 1401)

Concerning the legislative role of members of parliament in Iran, the present paper aimed to identify factors affecting their perception during passing laws through a behavioral approach. Sampling was carried out via judgmental method and was continued till reaching saturation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with parliament member. The answers to interview questions in addition to documents such as negotiation proceedings were analyzed. Employing grounded theory, codes, concepts and categories were obtained as a result of data analysis. Five propositions were obtained after linking three categories at selective coding stage. Data analysis found personality, education, experience, personal feelings, emotions and feelings as individual factors affecting perception of MPs. Perceptions, the main category of research consists of direct and indirect perception as two subcategories and sense making, sense breaking, and sense giving as its concepts.

Adolescences encountered physical, cognitive, and emotional changes; they try to increase their ability of thinking and change relationships with family and peers for new emotional and social roles. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of positive intervention and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention on emotional maturity in girl students. The research sample was 45 girl students in public and exemplary high schools in Zahedan who have selected through a multi-stage random cluster sampling method and were divided into two experimental (n=30) control (n=15) groups. The emotional maturity scale was used to collect data. The experimental group received the positive intervention and cognitive-therapeutic intervention for 8 weeks in two months. The data were analyzed by a repeated-measures test. Results of repeated measures analysis showed that positive psychotherapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention had a significant effect on emotional maturity, but based on the results of multivariate analysis, the average emotional stability, Emotional regression, social maladjustment, personality disintegration, and lack of independence in the positive intervention group in the post-test and follow-up showed a significant decrease compared to the experimental group of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy with the control group and the effectiveness of the positivist intervention on emotional maturity was more than mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (p <0.01). Therefore, it can be concluded that despite the effectiveness of both interventions, the positive intervention was more effective in emotional development and emotional maturity than the mindfulness-based cognitive-therapy in adolescent girls.

Social anxiety is one type of anxiety disorders which disrupts academic, social and family functions and often goes through a chronic course that may continue into adulthood. The aim of the present study was to measure the effectiveness of parent-child cognitive and behavioral program on children's social anxiety. The research population was primary school boys in Karaj city, Alborz province. Sampling was done through multi-stage clustering and six schools were randomly selected. Tools for measuring child and parent anxiety were Spence scale and social anxiety scale. Twenty-four students whose social anxiety score was close to the cut-off line were selected with their parents. Leibovitz's questionnaire was administered to students with the coordination of the school. The experimental group received 13 therapy sessions during 13 weeks. The results of repeated measures ANOVA showed that the parent-child cognitive and behavioral program is effective and has a lasting effect on children's social anxiety (p <0.01). Based on the results, it is suggested to use the designed protocol to reduce children's social anxiety.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of telework (TW) on job satisfaction (JS) with the mediating role of perceived independence and conflict between work and family. The statistical population of this study was 2280 people from the staff of government offices in Quds city. Cochran sampling formula showed that 328 people were identified as sufficient for sampling. However, researchers considered 501 participants to reduce sampling error. The sampling method was simple random sampling. In order to measure TW, JS, Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and in order to Measure job independence (JI), standard questionnaires were used. Hypotheses were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations using SPSS and SMARTPLS software. Findings showed that teleworking has a significant effect on job satisfaction, perceived independence and the conflict between work and family. In addition, the findings showed that work-family conflict between telecommuting and job satisfaction has a mediating and significant role. Perceived job independence also plays a mediating role between telecommuting and job satisfaction. Based on findings, the mediating roles of work-family conflict and perceived independence were confirmed.

The present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the structural equation model of factors influencing marital intimacy in newlywed couples. The present study used a quantitative approach. The study employed a developmental research design using descriptive correlational method and path analysis. The statistical population of the present study included all the couples who participated in the marriage workshops of the Ministry of Social Justice and the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Shahrekord in the summer of 2019. The research sample included 200 couples (M=200 & F=200) who were selected by the convenience sampling method. The couples completed the Couples Intimacy, Marital Empathy, Self-Disclosure, and Marital Trust Questionnaires. The results showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between empathy and its components, self-disclosure and its components, and trust in marital intimacy (p<05). Furthermore, when investigating the modeling of the research variables with marital intimacy, the results showed that, with the mediating role of trust, self-disclosure and empathy are able to predict marital intimacy. Finally, regarding the results of the study, it can be said that exploring components affecting couples' intimacy can be important in improving the quality of their relationship and is effective in developing practical plans to improve the newlywed couples' relationship.

The present study aimed to develop the Economic-Psychological Resilience Scale (EPRS) and evaluate its psychometric properties. To this end, a descriptive research method was used. The research population included all Kerman employed citizens in 2019. For this purpose, the items related to individual economic resilience were developed using the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Then, after preliminary reviews and content validation by experts in the field of economics and psychology, the scale was piloted on a sample of 30 individuals, and the final version of the scale was constructed. The Resilience Scale, the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire, and the Economic-Psychological Resilience Scale (EPRS) were administered to a sample of 384 persons who were selected using convenient sampling from different regions.

The results of the exploratory factor analysis of the developed scale showed the three-factor model consisted of three factors including problem analysis, self-efficacy, adaptability, and flexibility. AMOS software was used to confirm the construct validity of the model, and the results showed the appropriate fit of the second-order one-factor model. The analysis of the reliability and validity indexes of the scale shows that the scale has acceptable reliability and validity.

Given the acceptable reliability and validity indices of this scale, it can be used in related research areas.

This study investigated the mediating role of savoring beliefs in the relationship among family functioning, life satisfaction and depression. The research method was descriptive (of correlational and structural equations modeling (SEM)). A total of 250male and female participants were selected from among married males and females in Isfahan using purposive sampling method according to the inclusion and the exclusion criteria. They filled out Adaptive Family functioning scale, Savoring Beliefs Inventory, Depressive Symptoms scale, and Diener’s Satisfaction with Life scale. Data analysis was conducted through Pearson correlation method and structural equation modeling using SPSS (version 23) and AMOS23. The results showed a positive and significant relationship among family functioning, life satisfaction and savoring beliefs. The results indicated a negative and significant relationship between the above-mentioned variables and depression (p < 0.001). In addition, the indirect effect of family functioning on depression was mediated through savoring beliefs, and that of family functioning while life satisfaction was mediated through savoring beliefs (p <0.05). The findings of this study emphasized the role of savoring beliefs (i.e., enjoying positive experiences) as an important correlation in the psychological consequences of Iranian families. As a result, the findings of this study can be used to improve the psychological problems of couples in Iran.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of Unified Transdiagnostic treatment on improving internalizing behavioral problems, emotional regulation, and empathy in children with anxiety disorders. The present study was a single case pilot design of multiple baseline designs with different subjects that were performed on three patients (8,9,10 years) in 15 sessions with two follow-up periods of 2 months. Data were analyzed using visual drawing methods, stable change index, and recovery percentage. The instruments used included a Child Behavioral Checklist (parent form), an Emotion Regulation Checklist, and Griffith Empathy Measure. The results of Unified Transdiagnostic treatment showed that all three children with anxiety disorders, during treatment and after treatment, showed a significant reduction in child behavioral scores, emotion regulation, and empathy, and therapeutic achievements were maintained during the two 2-month periods. The results showed the effectiveness of Unified Transdiagnostic treatment in the scores of subscales of internalizing behavioral problems in the child's behavioral list, emotion regulation subscales, and empathy subscales in children with anxiety disorders.

Some temperamental vulnerability factors along with cognitive vulnerability variables are essential to understand depression. Recent conceptualizations for depression, have also focused on emotions and their dysregulation, regarding their potential role in the development, exacerbation, or maintenance of emotional disorders. However, theoretical associations between emotion regulation and the cognitive model's constructs have remained unclear. The present study examined the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in the relationship between negative affect, dysfunctional attitudes, and negative automatic thoughts with depressive symptoms. The design was descriptive – correlational and data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Population of the current study were some volunteer people who lived in Tehran and Isfahan, in that, 250 of them were selected via convenience sampling following a public announcement. After that, participants responded to Beck depression inventory-II, automatic thoughts questionnaire, cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire, positive and negative affect scale, and dysfunctional attitudes scale. The results of SEM showed that the conceptual model of the research had a good fitness to research data. In addition, all direct and indirect path coefficients were statistically significant. Therefore, the supposed mediating role of emotion dysregulation was approved. According to the results, it can be inferred that emotion dysregulation might be one of the mechanisms through which temperamental and cognitive vulnerability factors lead to depressive symptoms.

Neuromarketing is the application of neuropsychology in marketing research to study the sensorimotor behavior of consumers such as cognitive and emotional responses to marketing stimuli with the help of new technologies. The performance of priority detection systems based on brain signals depends on the appropriate selection of feature extraction methods and machine learning algorithm. At first, EEG signals were pre-processed by low-pass and Savitzky Golay filters, and the features of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and Lampel-Ziv complexity (LZC) were extracted from them. After that the features are normalized and divided into training and testing. Later on, the normalized features are given to a four-layer deep neural network (DNN) to predict the results of the training. Finally, the proposed model is ready to use. To evaluate the performance of the proposed model, parameters of precision, recall, and accuracy have been considered. The results show that a precision of 82%, recall of 87.5%, and accuracy of 87.5% for distinguishing the two categories of liking and disliking have been obtained in an average of five runs. In this study, the effect of advertising on the brain activity of consumers was investigated by analyzing EEG signals. Experimental results of the proposed model show that studies in this field can change and improve marketing strategies to improve producer performance and consumer satisfaction, leading to a mutual benefit.