مجله پژوهش های علوم شناختی و رفتاری
سال دوم شماره 1 (پیاپی 2، بهار و تابستان 1391)

The aim of this research was to determine the psychometric properties of Novaco Anger Questionnaire (short form) in Isfahan city. In this reaserch 100 university students were selected through simple random sampling. and answered the Novaco Anger Questionnaire. To obtain the questionnaire validity، the correlation between scores of Novaco Questionnaire and Buss and Perry Questionnaire، was obtained. For reliability، test-retest method and Chronbach Alpha were used. Findings indicated that، reliability of the questionnaire by Chronbach alpha was 0. 86 and by test-retest was 0. 73. The correlation between Buss and Berry and Novaco scores was 0. 78. Test content validity was confirmed by 5 psychologist، counselors، and sociologists and verified by factor analysis. It was concluded that Novaco Anger Questionnaire can be used for assessing anger.

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescents’ extraversion-introversion and information processing of schematic happy and angry emotional faces. 51 male and female students (11-15 years of age) including 24 extroverted and 27 introverted were selected as the sample based on their scores in extraversion-introversion dimension of Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (JEPQ).After a semi-structured clinical interview a computerized pictorial version of the modified dot-probe task was carried out on them. Data were analyzed by regression analysis and t test. The results indicated that extraversion-introversion is a predictor of attentional bias to happy emotional faces so that with increasing extroversion in adolescents their attentional vigilance to happy faces will also increase (p <. 05). The findings show that personality may systematically influence the way people perceive facial expressions of other people and the extroversion trait is associated with pleasant emotional information processing.

The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between hearing and deaf students’ temperament and their perception of their fathers’ acceptance and rejection and aggressive behaviors. 60 deaf students (30 girls and 30 boys) and 100 hearing students (50 girls and 50 boys) from the first، second، and third grades of two formal and two special junior high schools were selected by simple random sampling. Buss and Warren Aggression Questionnaire، Child Acceptance- Rejection Questionnaire، and Middle Childhood Temperament Questionnaire were used. At first the relation between temperamental traits and aggression was investigated. Findings showed that from among the seven factors of temperament، four factors (approach، intensity، distractibility and activity) were predictors of aggression (verbal aggression، anger، and hostility) in hearing students independent of their perceptions of their fathers’ acceptance – rejection (p<. 01). Finally the interaction between students’ perception of their fathers’ acceptance – rejection and students’ temperamental traits in predicting aggression was investigated. The interaction between deaf students’ distractibility and their perception of their fathers’ acceptance-rejection predicted was significant and hostility and indirect aggression. In general، the results of this study indicated that in hearing students difficult temperamental traits both in relation and independent of students’ perception of fathers’ acceptance- rejection predict aggression. But، in deaf students’ temperamental traits، only perception of fathers’ acceptance- rejection predict aggression.

In this research the effectiveness of group logo - therapy on loneliness in retired men of the retirement center of Mamasani was investigated. The subjects were all the retired men who were registered as the members of this center. The sample included 40 persons who were randomly selected from among the volunteers whose scores were one standard deviation lower than the mean. They were divided into two groups: The control group and the experimental group. The instrument which was used in this study was the Revised Loneliness Scale (UCLA). The research design was an experimental design which had a pretest، post test and follow up with a control group. After random assignment of the subjects to the control and experimental groups، the experimental treatment (group logo - therapy) was conducted for ten session (each session ninety minutes and once a week). After treatment post tests were given to both groups. In order to analyze the data the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used. The results showed that logo therapy decreaseed loneliness of the experimental group in comparison to the control group) P<. 05 (

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship of religious orientation (intrinsic، extrinsic) and gender with death anxiety among university students. The sample consisted of 400 university students (200 mal، 200 female)، who were randomly selected. All 400 participants filled out Allport’s Religious Orientation Scale and Death Anxiety Scale. The gathered data were analyzed through two-way analysis of variance. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between gender and death anxiety (p Keywords: intrinsic religious orientation, extrinsic religious orientation, gender, death anxiety