نشریه تعالی مشاوره و روان درمانی
پیاپی 45 (بهار 1402)

Teaching students' positive thinking competences is very useful to strengthen and improve positive communication with themselves, positive communication with others and their life, as well as increasing their self-esteem and academic success. Considering the importance of positive thinking and its broad aspects, including its role in adolescent adaptation, the present study investigated the effectiveness of teaching positive thinking and emotional self-regulation competences on creativity, reducing anxiety and academic achievement in senior high school students in Tehran.                                  The scores of experimental variables were evaluated in pre-test and post-test stages. The statistical population was high school students in Tehran. The statistical sample of this study includes 45 students (15 people in the first group) positive thinking competence, (15 people in the second group) emotional self-regulation competence and 15 people in the control group. For sampling, first, two high schools were selected by convenience sampling method and 45 high school students were randomly selected from the senior high school students and placed in experimental and control groups. The research instruments were Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Abedi Creativity Questionnaire that were administered to both control and experimental groups before and after providing positive thinking competences training to experimental group.    Descriptive and inferential statistics including mean and standard deviation and analysis of covariance and multivariate repeated measures analysis test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that teaching positive thinking and emotional self-regulation competences has a significant effect on creativity, reducing exam anxiety and academic achievement in students.

Emotion regulation plays an important role in other psychological variables including health in diabetic patients. As a result, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between cognitive flexibility and mindfulness with emotion regulation in type 2 diabetic patients.

The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was type 2 diabetic patients referred to diabetes clinic of Imam Khomeini Hospital's in the winter of 2017 and spring of 2018. The sample size based on the Krejcie and Morgan table was estimated to be 181 people who this number after checking the inclusion criteria were selected by available sampling method. The research tools were questionnaires of cognitive flexibility (Dennis and Vander Wal, 2010), mindfulness-short form (Walach et al, 2006) and emotion regulation (Gross and John, 2003). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with stepwise model in SPSS-22 software.

The findings showed that cognitive flexibility and mindfulness had a positive and significant relationship with emotion regulation in type 2 diabetic patients and in addition, cognitive flexibility and mindfulness variables significantly could predict 38% of emotion regulation changes in type 2 diabetes patients which in this prediction the contribution of cognitive flexibility was higher than mindfulness (P˂0.01).

According to results of this research, in order to improve emotion regulation in type 2 diabetic patients, it is possible to improve cognitive flexibility and mindfulness through educational workshops.

Having intimate relationships in people's marital and family life is the most important emotional challenge in their lives. A person who experiences a higher degree of intimacy in relationships is able to present himself in a more favorable way in relationships and express his needs more effectively to his partner and spouse. In addition, spouses who have a higher level of intimacy have more marital satisfaction. According to what was said, the aim of the present study was to provide a structural model of couple intimacy based on sexual satisfaction with the mediation of marital commitment and marital quality of life.

The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of correlational data analysis. The statistical population of the research includes all married women who referred to health centers in Tehran in 2018, according to the required sample size in the analysis of Klein's structural equations, 360 people were selected as a sample, and Larson's (1988) sexual satisfaction scale, Vondenbroek couple's intimacy and Bertman (1995), completed the marital commitment scale of Adams and Jones (1997) and the quality of marital life of Busby et al. (1995). The data of the research was done in the inferential part (using multivariate analysis of structural equation modeling (SEM) with the help of Excel, SPSS and Amos software.

The findings showed that there is a relationship between sexual satisfaction and marital intimacy, between sexual satisfaction and marital commitment and quality of marital life, between marital commitment and quality of marital life and marital intimacy. Also, the findings showed that sexual satisfaction has an effect on the intimacy of couples through the mediating variables of marital commitment (1.02) and marital quality of life (0.7). Finally, the findings showed the fit of the model.

Sexual satisfaction is one of the most important factors that affect the quality and stability of a couple's relationship. A successful marriage is often associated with the satisfaction of the parties from sexual relations. Sexual satisfaction increases self-esteem, life satisfaction, ability to love, relationship satisfaction and emotional satisfaction and feeling happy in life. The relationship between sexual dissatisfaction and couples' intimacy problems shows that couples' satisfaction with their sexual relationship is one of the most important factors affecting couples' intimacy.

It is suggested to the officials and planners of the mental health of the society to help strengthen the foundation of the family by considering intimacy in couples and strengthening it by couple therapists, psychologists and counselors.

The aim of this study was to determine the role of client’s intrinsic motivation and therapist's interpersonal style on treatment outcome with the mediation of the client’s engagement.

Individuals who had referred to counseling centers of welfare organization, oil company and Tabriz municipality in 1398 were selected as the statistical population. In the present study, statistical sample composed of 324 participants who had entrance criteria. the present study is a descriptive-correlational research. to collect data, questionnaires of The Therapist's Interpersonal Style, Treatment Motivation, Client Engagement and Client Outcome were used and structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data.

Findings showed that therapist's interpersonal style with the mediation of the client engagement were able to explain changes in the treatment effectiveness. Also, the results showed that the treatment motivation does not directly affect the treatment outcome and can only have a positive effect on the treatment outcome directly and through client engagement. The results of good fit indices showed that the measured model fits well with the research theoretical model.

This study showed that client engagement was a mediating variable in explaining the treatment outcome, so that, in addition to choosing appropriate treatment approaches, therapists should pay special attention to the role of client engagement in the treatment effectiveness.

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy with emotion regulation therapy on death anxiety and coping styles of people with a history of self-harm.

The research was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a three-month follow-up. The statistical population of this research included all people with a history of self-injury in Qom city in 1401 who referred to Andisheh Sabz treatment center. 60 patients were selected by available sampling method and assigned to three equal groups of 20 people by randomization (lottery). The instrument of data collection was Cult Lester's death anxiety questionnaire, the questionnaire of coping styles with stressful situations. For data analysis, SPSS version 25 software was used with descriptive statistics methods, statistical assumptions and analysis of variance with repeated measurements and Benferroni test.

The results showed that death anxiety and its dimensions improved significantly in the experimental groups compared to the control group, and this improvement remained stable in the follow-up phase.

Also, the results showed that the coping styles in the experimental groups have significant differences compared to the control group.

The current study deals with the qualitative study of mothers' viewpoint about separation anxiety, the etiology of separation anxiety, the way mothers deal with their children suffering from separation anxiety and its strategies.

The current research method was qualitative with the grounded theory approach based on the systematic model of Strauss and Corbin (2015). The population included mothers of children suffering from separation anxiety disorder in the first grade of primary school in Tehran in 2019, from whom 10 mothers were selected using a purposeful homogeneous and snowball methods until saturation was reached. In order to collect data, a semi-structured interview method was used. The data were analyzed with the help of MAX-QDA 2020 version.

370 primary codes were obtained, which were created through causal-interactional coding with emphasis on properties-dimensions and process-consequences of cross-causal and strategic mini-frameworks.

Causal and procedural coding results, including internal-relational causal factors such as various genetic issues, infant and childhood symptoms, absence of mother and father, marital disputes, and external-reflective factors such as the calmness of the living environment and an accident or illness for oneself or relatives , and the prevention-compensatory strategies were useful, such as persuading the father to communicate more with the child, and useless, such as the strategy of forceful separation. In addition, through the conditional-consequence matrix, interactive and consequential aspects and the central code of early sensitization to interactions and environment, separation anxiety was obtained from the viewpoint of mothers.

The aim of the present study was to systematically review Iranian researches with a focus on effectiveness researches conducted on working women in the period of 2018-2023. This study is a type of secondary research and is considered a systematic review according to the implementation method. Document analysis method was used to collect data, which included all published effectiveness studies (2018-2023) and a total of 45 studies were examined. The information obtained was made by the researcher's checklist tool and the summary of the contents was presented in the form of tables. What emerged from the review of the articles published in the last 5 years was that researchers are looking for positive organizational behavior, which is followed by an increase in the strengthening of employees' psychological resources, and this is while working women, due to the connection with the environment outside the home and On the other hand, they are under a lot of stress due to their maternal responsibility. Therefore, considering the role of women, in society, work-family conflict has negative consequences for the psychosocial health of working women and their families, and it also affects the optimal performance of organizations, hence it is suggested that researches on the effectiveness of work-conflict be carried out in the future. Target the family by emphasizing the role of women and try to improve the psychological condition of working women.

The aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationships between psychological capital and psychological well-being by mediating perceived social support and differentiation of Islamic Azad University of Tehran province. 

This study was conducted using correlation method and structural equations. The statistical population consisted of all students of Azad University of Tehran in 1400. The sampling method was cluster sampling. The final sample was 426. Research Tools Included Reef Psychological Well-Being Scale (1989), Luthans and Avillo Psychological Capitals (2007), Zimet et al.'s Perceived Social Support (1988) and Scorn and Friedlander's Own Differentiation (1998). Questionnaires were completed online and collected. It was found that the total path coefficient between psychological capital and psychological well-being was positive and was significant at the level of (P<.01, β=0.479).Indirect path coefficient between psychological capitals and psychological well-being (P<0.01, β= 0.274) was positive and was significant at the level of 0.01. 

The results showed that both mediating variables including perceived social support and self-differentiation positively and significantly mediated the relationship between psychological capitals and psychological well-being in students.

It seems that teaching self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience plays an important role in students' psychological well-being and ultimately leads to their adaptability and happiness.