فصلنامه روانشناسی سلامت
پیاپی 5 (بهار 1392)

The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of anger on the relationship between negative affect and social inhibition with severity of coronary artery stenosis in a sample of patients with coronary artery disease. Method of the present exploratory study was correlational. A total of 200 patients with coronary artery disease (112 men، 88 women) participated in this study. The patients were asked to complete the Multidimensional Anger Inventory (MAI) and Type D Personality Scale (DS14). The results demonstrated that anger، negative affect، and social inhibition had a meaningful association with severity of coronary artery stenosis (p <. 01). The results of path analysis also showed that the relationship between negative affect and social inhibition with severity of coronary artery stenosis is mediated by anger. It can be concluded that severity of coronary artery stenosis might be predicted by anger، negative affect، and social inhibition.

The goal of present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on aggression reduction in brain injured people. The plan of study was quasi experimental through pretest، posttest and follow up with control group. The sample of this study consists of 16 brain injured patients in Mashhad city and selected by Convenience sampling method and voluntarily participate in this study. Participants randomly divided into two groups. The first groups receive cognitive behavioral therapy and the second group hasn’t any therapy. Two groups in three pretest، posttest and follow up time level were measured. Applied measures in this study consisted of Buss-Pery Aggression Questionnaire and collected data were analyzed through Spss software by repeated measure analysis of variance. The results showed that experimental group that receive CBT showed insignificant differences in aggression reduction in compare with control group that don’t receive any therapy. There is discussion about the results in theoretical approach and its importance in clinical intervention. On the whole we could apply the results of present study in valid and accurate assessment and diagnosis of the brain injury effects in legal medical centers and furthermore offer CBT services for this clinical population as non-medical treatment، efficient and inexpensive therapy.

The reliability and validity of exercise self- efficacy scale (ESS) and its relationship to weight efficacy lifestyle and body mass index among overweight and obese individuals was investigated in this study. Using convenient sampling method، 343 participants with BMI≥25 eligible toexclude- include criteria were selected among students in Payam Noor university of Semnan province. All of them completed the items of exercise self- efficacy، and weight efficacy lifestyle questionnaires، and their anthropometric indices were measured، too. Applying 16th version of SPSS internal revealed that that internal coefficient with alpha''s Cronbach for exercise self- efficacy was 0. 93. Calculating correlation coefficients to WEL، and body mass index were significant (p)

The Style of life in substance abusers and normal individuals in Tehran City was Studied. For this purpose 404 subjects (191 substance abuser،213normal individuals) were selected by stratified random sampling method and answered to life style inventory. The Results indicatede that difference between substance abusers and normal individuals in Belonging-social interest life style، Wanting recognition life style and Being cautious life style was significant but in taking charge and Going along life styles was not significant. The Results of Logistic regression analysis indicatede that Belonging-social interet life style explanate 19 percentage of variance significantly and other cofficients is not significan. Conclution: This findings in coordination with Adlerian view about development of neuroses corroborate the difference between substance abusers and normal individuals in life of styles and press on preventive importance of primary interventions in these areas for prevention of substance abuse.

Aims and The addiction associated with most of psychological and physical issues and studies showed that substance abuse is associated with lower quality of life، physical and mental health in addicts in compared with general population and physical patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness on quality of life، especially Improvement in the psychological and physical health of the addicts. The sixty cases were randomly selected and assigned into control and experimental groups. Regarding to the classical experimental design، the experimental group under take 8 sessions Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy، while the control group received no intervention. The assessment of the Quality of Life Scale (sf-36) was done in pre-test and post-test on the physical functioning، physical role، bodily pain، general health، vitality، social functioning، role emotional، and emotional well-being subscales and results were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance. The results of MANCOVA showed that there was no significant difference between the pre-test of experimental and control groups، and Mindfulness training، increased the psychological and physical health scores significantly in the experimental group. Mindfulness-based treatment program could be as intervention program in addicts’ population to improving quality of life.

The purpose of this study was the misinformation teens in a variety of addictive substances and the role of education in changing the level of awareness of the addictive substances of high school adolescents. A quasi-experimental design with random cluster study on 60 male and female high school students in third grade (thirty people for each group) was performed. After selecting samples of student information was assessed about types of addictive substances in the community by a test of 60 questions. Then the students training in a variety of addictive substances (including effects، complications and treatment) in 4 sessions of 45 minutes spent. Then re-evaluate their general information. The data were compared with independent and dependent t test for. The correct Knowledge of groups in any of the addictive substance is not more than 50%. In boys، mean correct information before 7. 28 and after 8. 37 respectively. Mean girls at the correct information before and after was 29 and 39. 2. There was no significant difference between two groups. The amount of misinformation (poor training) after training showed a significant decrease in females. This decrease was not significant in boys. Correct knowledge of adolescents about the (effects، risks، dependence and treatment)، types of addictive substances is low، with a short-term training can reduce the false knowledge and true knowledge of them increased. However، change comes slowly in boys.

‎ The aim of this study is to compare the relationship between religiosity and aggression in addicts، recovered addicts and non-addicted to drug. In this comparison and correlation research - 64 addicts، 51 recovered addicts and 99 non-addicts were tested by the Religiosity Questionnaire and Ahvaz Aggression Questionnaire. One-way ANOVA showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of recovered addicts and non-addicts in subscale of religious recognition، religious emotions، (P)