نشریه مطالعات اسلام و روان شناسی
پیاپی 35 (پاییز و زمستان 1403)

In the issue of efficiency, it is necessary to identify the factors affecting family efficiency. This research aimed to model family efficiency structurally based on life meaning with the mediating role of spirituality in the family and marital boundaries. The population included all couples in the city of Qom in 2023 and 384 of them were selected by the cluster sampling as the sample. The data were collected using family efficiency questionnaire from the perspective of Islam by Safouraei, the questionnaire of life meaning test based on Islamic sources by Heidari, Salarifar and Shaterian (2019), the questionnaire of the spirituality in the family, and the questionnaire of the measurement of the internal marital boundaries by Houshiari (2020). The data was analyzed with SPSS software. To analyze the data, structural equations were used in SPSS-24 Software and LISREL-5 software. The results demonstrated that there is a significant relationship among family efficiency, life meaning, and marital boundaries, and there is also a significant relationship among the spirituality in the family, life meaning, and family efficiency. In addition, the variables of marital boundaries and spirituality in the family are able to play a mediating role between the two variables of family efficiency and life meaning.

The aim of this study is to analyze the content of gratitude as one of the important categories in Islamic education by extracting information from the "dedicated to" page of theses of Ph.D. students in ten different disciplines; this page is an optional page to identify spiritual supporters of students in the last stage of their formal education. The type of the study is applied. Its method is a content analysis with an analytical approach. The sample of the study included 393 Ph.D. theses, which were extracted from the Ganj database by the stratified sampling and based on the academic field and author of the thesis among ten academic fields. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that was analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis and ANOVA tests. The findings showed that the category of the family, centered on the mother, has the highest number of submissions (85%). The category of abstractions and then the category of spirituality are ranked second and third, respectively. The results of the Kruskal-Wallis test showed that there is a statistically significant difference between the number of submissions in different disciplines. The results of the ANOVA test about the average volume of words in different disciplines demonstrated that the average volume of words "dedicated to" in the field of information science and knowledge studies is more than other fields and in the field of art is less than other fields. In general, it can be said that the students believe that their success in the Ph.D. course is closely related to the efforts of the family, especially the mother, and their psychological, social, moral, and even financial support.

Veterans (Janbazan) suffer many physical and psychological injuries in their lives; therefore, it is important to evaluate their resilience against adversity. Based on this, the aim of the present research was to explain the mediating role of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between spiritual well-being and resilience in veterans (Janbazan) of Shahreza city. In terms of purpose, this research was applied and correlational research design was structural equation modeling. The population of veterans (Janbazan) of Shahreza city included 500 people, and 220 people were selected according to Morgan and Krejcie's table by the simple random sampling, and because of the drop in the sample due to non-response to the questionnaire, 200 people were finally selected as the sample. The research tools included the spirituality index of well-being by Daaleman and Frey (2005), cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire by Garnefski et al. (2001), and the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (2003), which were completed by the veterans (Janbazan). The analysis of the findings using the statistical method of Pearson correlation coefficient in SPSS-23 software showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between all the variables except for the relationship between spiritual well-being and acceptance strategy (P<0.01). In addition, the structural equation model in PLS-4 software indicated that the direct effect of spiritual well-being on resilience, and the direct effect of spiritual well-being on adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies are significant (P<0.05). Analyzing the indirect effects of spiritual well-being and resilience by five adaptive emotion regulation strategies demonstrated that only the strategy of refocusing on planning has a significant indirect effect as a mediator (P<0.05).

The word agency implies a kind of sense of responsibility toward the path of one's own life. The acceptance of human agency depends on the explanation of the origin of action, which is called "I". This study aims to present a counseling model based on Allameh Mohammad Taghi Jafari's view. In the first part, an attempt has been made by the hermeneutic qualitative method to identify the indicators and components of the agency of "I". Then, by the grounded theory, explanatory model of the agency of "I" was drawn. In the third part, the content, process and counseling techniques derived from this model were presented through thematic analysis. In the Delphi validation, Kendall's correlation coefficient was reported as 0.87. The main counseling content of this approach can be found in cases such as the nature of "I" (differentiator, agent, meta-agent, authorized, etc.), the areas of "I" (the essence and activity of "I"), the levels of "I" (the disability of "I", the agency of "I"), the elements of "I" (involuntary, voluntary, and perfectionist), and so on. Counseling processes were presented in harmony with purposeful universe, acceptance of self-ownership, honesty and harmony with oneself, use of capabilities, strengthening of love for humans, and strengthening of self-awareness and self-improvement. In order to achieve these therapeutic processes, practical methods were also extracted based on Allameh's point of view. The distinguishing aspects of this counseling model can be considered in its integration, the presence of the determining component of perfectionism and attention to the relationship between human and his creator.

"Growth" is one of the significant topics of behavioral sciences, which means human transformation and includes many dimensions such as physical, emotional, emotional, moral, social, etc. growth. The aim of the Holy Quran as the main source of religion is also growth. The main question of the present research is an answer to the concept of "transcendental growth" and its goal is to analyze the concept of transcendental growth as a transformational dimension proposed by this divine book and its relationship with other transformational aspects presented in behavioral sciences. Using the library method and qualitative analysis, this research provides a precise definition of this concept, and by analyzing the meaning of conformity and obligation of the verses of the Holy Quran, including commands and prohibitions, the characteristics of the developed and the underdeveloped, the introduced characters, the values ​​as well as the available evidences in other religious sources, this research confirms the existence of the transformational dimension in human, which can go through four stages, and in addition to its specific characteristics, it has a close relationship with other transformational aspects of human.

This study was conducted with the purpose of predicting mental health based on attachment styles, psychological-spiritual transformation and the perception of God among female students. This scientific-religious study is a descriptive-correlational research, and the population consists of all female students aged 18 to 45 years of Islamic Azad University, Qom branch, in 2020-2021. The sample includes 358 female students selected by the convenience sampling. To obtain the data, Goldberg's general health questionnaire, Collins and Reed's adult attachment scale, Janbozorgi's mental-spiritual transformation questionnaire, and Janbozorgi's self-concept and self-concept questionnaire were used. In this study, SPSS-24 software, multiple regression test, and Pearson correlation coefficient were applied for analysis. The results showed that about 17.2% of the variance of mental health is predicted by attachment styles, psychological-spiritual transformation, and the perception of ​​God. Moreover, secure attachment style and psychological-spiritual transformation have a positive and significant relationship with mental health, and avoidant attachment style, ambivalent/anxious attachment style, and the perception of ​​God have a negative and significant relationship with mental health. According to the results, it can be seen that secure attachment style, the increment of the level of psychological-spiritual transformation, and the reduction of the negative perception of God are the key factors in improving mental health.

This study aimed to investigate the role of psychological flexibility, emotional empathy, and spiritual experiences in the prediction of marital satisfaction of married women. This descriptive study was a correlational research and the population was all married women living in the city of Qom. To determine the sample size, based on Tabachnick and Fidell's method, 250 married women were selected by convenience sampling. For data collection, the following four questionnaires were used: the ENRICH Marital Satisfaction (EMS) Scale, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-version 2 (AAQ-II), Mehrabian and Epstein's Emotional Empathy Scale (EES), and the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression tests. The findings showed that marital satisfaction respectively has a positive and significant relationship with psychological flexibility, emotional empathy, and spiritual experiences. According to the regression analysis, psychological flexibility to a greater extent and emotional empathy and spiritual experiences to a lesser extent can predict marital satisfaction. Therefore, it can be said that psychological flexibility, emotional empathy, and spiritual experiences play a great role in the marital satisfaction of married women.

In the past decades, the attitude toward the family has changed in the fields of marriage, marital relation, and parenting in Iran. The influence of the family and the appropriate performance of its roles, especially the transmission of the values ​​and culture of the society, are affected by the members' attitudes. Considering the importance of the family issue and the attitude toward it, the researcher tried to extract the components of the attitude toward the family in the three areas of marriage, marital relation, and parenting from religious sources, and based on the components, made the relevant questionnaire. The approach of the research is qualitative-quantitative, in the sense that in the qualitative part, the content analysis of religious texts was applied, and in the quantitative part, the research is a descriptive-survey one, which is used to measure the validity of the attitude components and questionnaire items. The purpose of the research is applied. In this research, first the concepts related to the family and attitude toward it were categorized, and the components related to the attitude toward the family were extracted using open coding and axial coding. To measure the validity of components and items, the ideas of experts of religious sciences and psychology were used. After the evaluation of the components by the experts, 32 components in three areas and ten dimensions were confirmed, and according to these components, 95 items were obtained for making the questionnaire. Then, to confirm the research data, confirmatory factor analysis and CVI were applied among a sample of 205 people, and to measure its reliability, Cronbach's alpha and split-half method were used. Their reliability coefficients were reported as 0.97 and 0.95, respectively, which shows that the questionnaire has a good reliability.