فصلنامه روانشناسی
سال شانزدهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 62، تابستان 1391)

The present study assessed the relationship among parenting styles, personality characteristics and academic achievement in students. The impact of parenting style on academic performance of neurotic and extravert students was examined. 400 female subjects and their mothers were chosen through cluster random sampling from secondary schools of Tehran city. Data were collected using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI), Baumrind Parenting Inventory and students’ academic scores. Results revealed that authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles and students’ extraversion predicted 22.6% of their academic performave changes. Also results showed that academic performance of neurotic and extravert students with authoritative parents was better than same students with authoritarian or neglectful parents. The results were discussed according to personality traits and parenting styles theory. The findings could help in understanding the relationship between academic achievement and personality characteristics and the moderating role of parenting styles.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between interactional experiences and psychosocial development among university gifted students. The statistical population of the research included all of undergraduate students who were in the list of the Shiraz University Office of Gifted Students. 210 undergraduates (124 female, 86 male) were selected using purposeful sampling method. The Psychosocial Development Questionnaire (PDQ) was used as measurement instrument. This instrument has two parts: Student Psychosocial Development Tasks (SPDT) and College Student Experiences (CSE). Reliability of these parts was investigated by calculating Cronbach alpha coefficient. The pattern of correlations between factors showed it's construct validity. The results showed that interactional experiences (academic involvement, faculty-student relationships and peer relationships) and psychosocial development (developing competence, managing emotions, developing autonomy, developing mature interpersonal relationships, establishing identity and developing purpose) were correlated. Multiple regression analyses revealed that academic involvement predict positively all of the dimensions of gifted students’ psychosocial development.

The present study aims at analyzing the effect of achievement goals on statistics anxiety through the moderating role of academic motivation and statistics learning approaches. 345 undergraduate students (68 male, 277 female) from the faculties of Psychology and Educational Sciences in Tehran were selected using census sampling method. Participants answered the following questionnaires: Achievement Goals, Academic Motivation, Scale, Motivated Strategies for Learning, and Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale. The path analysis method indicated that mastery goals have direct negative effects on statistics anxiety (p<0.05). Performance- Approach and Performance-Avoidance goals affect on statistics anxiety only through extrinsic motivation and cognitive strategies. Mastery as well as Performance-Approach goals have direct positive effects on intrinsic motivation and the extrinsic one respectively (p<0.05). All three variables of academic motivation directly influence statistics anxiety. Intrinsic motivation influences the metacognitive strategies and the extrinsic motivation and academic motivation affect the learning strategies directly and positively. It is conclouded that achievement goals affect statistics anxiety more often through academic motivation and learning strategies.

This study investigated the relationship between parenting style and identity styles among highschool students. sample included 200 last-grade highschool students in city of Marand who were selected via random cluster sampeling method. Tools used in research, including Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSQD) and Identity Style Inventory (ISI-6G). Data analysis with the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression multivariate. Data analysis showed that the relationship between parental parenting style have a good relation and forecast for identity styles and commitment identity. Results indicate that children of teenage parents who have a athoratative of parenting styles fourther have a commitment identity, informational and normative identity, Whereas, children of teenage parents who have a authoritarian and permissive of parenting styles fourther have a confused - avoidance identity styles.

In this study the relation between five forms of work commitment with each other and exit behaviors have been explored based on Randall and Cote (1991) model and Balfour and Wechsler (1996). These forms of work commitment are consisted of work involvement and job involvement, Identification commitment, Affiliation commitment and exchange commitment Variables which are studied as exit behavior include desire to remain and turnover intention. The samples of this study are 272 employees of Isfahan Oil Refinery. Based on the result, work involvement has direct effect on job involvement and indirect effect on other variables. Also job involvement has been found to have direct effect on all three dimensions of organizational commitment. Increase in job involvement increases dimensions of organizational commitment and moreover, the mediation role of different dimensions of organizational commitment would result in higher levels of desire to remain and lower levels of turnover intention. In conclusion, the result shows changing dimensions of organizational commitment, will change the desire to remain Firstly, and then the turnover intention indirectly.

The aim of present study is to predict Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and its kinds, and Major Depression with thought actionfusion TAF and its levels. 50 out patient were selected by accessible sampling method in private and governmental psychiatric centers in Ardabil city. Then, they were examined using Beck Depression Inventory, Padua Inventory and TAF Scale. Data were analyzed using multiple regression by stepwise method. Results showed that TAF or its kinds could predict 14 percent of Major Depression variance (p<0/01), 15 percent of OCD variance (p<0/01), and 8-21 percent of OCD kinds variance (p,0/05). The results also indicated that the construct of TAF is not specific for OCD and it is present in major depression disorder too. Moreover, moral TAF had high levels in OCD and Major Depression Disorder.