نشریه پژوهش های کاربردی در علوم رفتاری
پیاپی 55 (بهار 1402)

 The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of marital conflicts in the relationship between parenting styles of mothers with premenstrual boredom and of children’s stubbornness. This study was descriptive with structural equation modeling. Participants were selected availably purposeful from six counseling centers in Tehran in 2023. The entry criteria were having Premenstrual dysphoric disorder with the approval of a clinicians, child aged between 5 and 7 years and education between diploma to master's degree and exclusion criteria, suffering from another mental disorder, or being treated with psychiatric drugs. Participants answered questionnaires on marital conflict, parenting styles, and child stubbornness. The results of this study showed that the structural equation model based on the mediating role of marital conflicts in the relationship between authoritative and authoritarian parenting style of mothers with premenstrual boredom and stubbornness of children has a good fit (P <0.01). But the liberating parenting style and its paths to marital conflict and child stubbornness were taken out of the model. The findings showed that powerful mothers with premenstrual boredom directly and indirectly, with the mediating role of marital conflict, predict a decrease in child stubbornness. In contrast, the authoritarians directly and indirectly significantly predicted the children's stubbornness.

Choosing a spouse and marriage contract are both signs of maturity and personal development one of the challenges that many couples face is cheating in the relationship And the biggest deceitful act between a couple is dealing with infidelity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Schema therapy Acceptance and Commitment therapy on the emotional irritability, family functioning in women affected by infidelity. The method of this study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population included women victims of infidelity referring to counseling centers under the supervision of the judiciary in Zanjan. Thirty couples were selected via purposeful and available sampling method based on the study criteria and randomly assigned to experimental (n=15) and control groups (n=15). The eight-session Schema therapy & Acceptance and Commitment Therapy protocol was performed on the experimental group. In the pre-test and post-test stages, both groups completed the emotional irritability scale of Brithwaite, 1987 Thus, it could be concluded that Schema therapy & Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an effective method in reducing emotional irritability, in women suffering from the trauma of infidelity and can be used by counselors and therapists in the field of family therapy. The result of One-way analysis of covariance indicated that Schema therapy & Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group counseling significantly decreased the post-test average score of emotional irritability family functioning in experimental group (0.05).

 Women facing divorce face psychological challenges. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to commitment-based treatments in this field. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on anxiety and fear of negative evaluation of women facing divorce. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the present study was all women who were subject to divorce in Kerman city in 1401. 30 people were selected as a sample using the available sampling method and replaced by simple random in two experimental (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. Wells's (1994) anxiety questionnaire and Watson and Friend's (1969) fear of negative evaluation questionnaire were used to collect information. Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and covariance analysis were used to analyze the research data. The results showed that treatment based on commitment is effective on anxiety and fear of negative evaluation of women facing divorce at a significance level of P<0.01. Considering the effectiveness of treatments based on commitment and on anxiety and fear of negative evaluation of women, it seems that this treatment can be used to reduce the psychological problems of women facing divorce.

 The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of existential therapy on the resilience and mental health of women and men bereaved by the death of their spouses during the Corona virus. The method of this research is semi-experimental (pre-test - post-test with control group). The statistical population of this study consisted of all the women and men bereaved due to the death of their spouse due to the corona disease during the corona disease period, who lived in Quds city of Tehran, and no more than 1 month had passed since their bereavement. The statistical sample was based on the research design of 2 groups of 15 people and a total of 30 people, which was determined using the available method and among the volunteers and according to the criteria for entering and leaving the sample, and these 30 people were randomly divided into 2 experimental groups and the control was replaced. In order to collect data in the current research, resilience questionnaires of Connor and Davidson (2003), mental health of Goldberg and Hiller (1979) were used. In this research, in order to implement existential psychotherapy, the existential psychotherapy treatment plan was used in a group setting by Nasiri Hanis, Yousefi and Sadeghi (2016). The results of multivariable covariance showed that existential therapy has a 0.49 effect on the resilience and mental health of women and men bereaved by the death of their spouse (p<0.01). Based on the results of this hypothesis, existential therapy has a 0.26 effect on the resilience of women and men bereaved by the death of a spouse and on the mental health of women and men bereaved by the death of a spouse by 0.46. Existential therapy has a 0.26 effect on the resilience of women and men bereaved by the death of their spouse (p<0.05). Finally, existential therapy has a 0.56 effect on the mental health of women and men bereaved by the death of their spouse (p<0.05).

 The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of humor in the relationship between the traits of borderline personality disorder and suicidal tendencies in public hospital employees of Lorestan province. This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection, which was conducted using structural equation model method. The statistical population of this study is made up of all the employees of the public hospitals of Lorestan province, using cluster random sampling, the number of 148 people was determined as a sample and according to Beck's suicide tendency questionnaire (1979). The borderline personality disorder subscale was answered based on the MCMI questionnaire and the humor questionnaire of Martin et al. (1981). The analysis of the hypotheses of this study was done by the method of structural equation modeling with SmartPLS software. Results showed that borderline personality disorder traits have a significant direct relationship with humor and suicidal tendencies. Also, the results of the final adjusted model showed that personality disorder traits with suicidal tendencies have an indirect effect with the mediating role of humor. The results of this study, by obtaining a suitable fit of the data with the model, showed that three conceptual frameworks, borderline personality disorder traits, suicidal tendencies and humor have theoretical intersection points in the hospital staff community. Are of Lorestan province and can be used in the form of a model and be taken into consideration in future planning.

 One of the problems of students with math disorder is lack of attention and difficulty in active memory, which can be increased with play therapy. This research was conducted in order to investigate the effectiveness of child-centered play therapy on improving working memory and attention of children with math disorders. The method of this research was semi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all students with math disorders in the first half of 2019. The research sample consisted of 30 people who were selected by available sampling method and were randomly divided into two experimental (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. And they answered the questionnaires of the Iran Key Math diagnostic test (2001), children's working memory by Pickering and Gathercole (2001) and color word Stroop (2006) before and after the intervention. The experimental group underwent child-centered play therapy intervention for 8 sessions of 45 minutes, and the control group did not receive any training. The research data was analyzed using correlation. The results of covariance analysis showed that child-centered play therapy has a positive effect on working memory and attention of students with math disorders. The effect on working memory was 0.55 and on attention was 0.61 (P<0.01). Play therapy is effective in improving working memory and attention of children with mathematical disorders. Therefore, this type of education can be used to reduce the problems of children with math disorders.