فصلنامه روانشناسی سلامت
پیاپی 7 (پاییز 1392)

The aim of this study was to examine reliability and validity of Persian version of Chronic Stress Scale (CSS) among a sample of first degree relatives of patients with type II diabetes. English version of CSS was transformed into a Persian questionnaire after translation and back-translation and then was used among 199 participants of the research. In order to explore test-retest reliability of CSS, 30 subjects answered the questions again, 8 to 11 weeks after first testing. Internal consistency of CSS in terms of alpha coefficient was obtained 0.87. Correlation coefficients between CSS and type D personality scale, neuroticism subscale of EPQ-RS, depression subscale of DAS, and anger and hostility subscale of SCL-90-R was obtained 0.36, 0.34, 0.38, and 0.30 respectively. Test-retest reliability with 8- to 11-week distance between two testing periods was 0.73. Based on results of our study, Persian version of CSS has the required psychometric properties for application in psychological studies on Iranian populations at risk of chronic diseases.

The aim of this study was to investigating the effectiveness of emotional eating intervention on modifying emotional eating and weight management in obese and overweight women. With convenient sampling method, among female volunteers who were eligible to participate in research regarding to include-exclude criteria, 22 participants were selected and assigned randomly into two groups (experimental and control groups). Prior to and after conducting the intervention, all participants of two groups filled out the items of emotional eating scale and their anthropometric characteristics were measured, too. data analysis by 16th version of SSSS and applying independent t test revealed that emotional eating intervention could modify emotional eating (anger, anxiety and depression) and weight reduction significantly in experimental group compared with control group (p<0/05). This intervention could reduce the weight and modify emotional eating by regulating emotions, correcting sabotage beliefs about eating and eating and cognitive restructuring, among people with emotional eating.

purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between personality, emotion regulation and recognition of with quality of life in patients with chronic low back pain. This is a correlation study. The sample consisted of 80 patients with chronic low back pain among patients who were admitted to the clinic of Ardabil. To collect data It was used: Cognitive Emotion Regulation Scale, Facial Recognition Questionnaire, Neo’s Personality Questionnaire (short form) and Quality of Life Questionnaire (short form) (SF -36). Data were analyzed by using Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient Resultsshow that there are relations between positive emotional regulation (r= 0.459), negative emotional regulation (r= 0.374), extraversion (r= 0.251), openness (r= 0.226), and conscientiousness (r= 221) and emotion recognition (r= 240) and quality of life (p<0.01). Multiple regression analysis showed that about 22% of the variance quality of life can be explained by the studied variables. These findings suggest that personality and emotional factors have an important role in predicting quality of life in patients with chronic low back pain.

Childhood and adolescence obesity has become a hygiene and health problem in many developed and developing countries and in addition to physical problems can have many psychological consequences, including increases in anxiety level. Therefore, the aim of this research is comparison of anxiety disorders in girls with overweight and normal weight. This research design is causal-comparative. So, 140 elementary sixth grade female students in Thehran were selected through cluster sampling method. Participants were devided in to two groups (70 individuals with overweight and 70 individuals with normal weight) based on Body Mass Index (BMI) and responded to Spence Children Anxiety Scale (1998). The results of research showed that anxiety had significant difference between children with overweight and normal weight and among anxiety components, fear of crowd spaces, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder had significant difference between children with overweight and normal weight and separation anxiety, fear of physical damage and generalized anxiety had not significant difference between these two groups (p<0.05). According to research results, parents awareness about overweight and obesity consequences and providing prevention plans about obesity have special importance. Also, any on-time interventions and appropriate plannings are recommended in children health and hygiene domain.

Hypertention is one of the main issues public health. The aim of the current research was to investigate the efficacy of group therapy Stress management on depression and blood pressure in female patients with hypertension. For this purpose, 30 female patients with hypertension were selected using simple random sampling (each group consist of 15 patients). The instruments of research included Beck depression Inventory and mercury blood pressure measuring equipment. The design was semi experimental and group therapy Stress management was performed in experimental group in 8 sessions. the result showed that group Stress management therapy intervention were reduce depression and blood pressure in female patients with hypertension (p0/01). Therefor Stress management can be used patients withhypertension to improve patient's blood pressure.

The processes of development such as emotional intelligence, attachment style in adult and self esteem play a fundamental role in mental health. They are discussed the factors underlying addiction. The present study aims examine to emotional intelligence, attachment style and self esteem in addicted and Normal men. Based on the entry criteria, available sampling, and structure clinical interview 50 addicted men and 50 non-addicted men selected and then were evaluated by Trait Meta Mood Scale (TMMS), Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire (AAS) and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. Results showed that non-addicted: group were higher than addicted in the secure attachment style, while addicted were higher than non-addicted in avoidant insecure style and anxity-ambivalanc attachment style significantly. In attention, clarity and mood repair of emotional intelligence, addicted people were lower than others. Also non-addicted are higher than addicted group in self esteem and all of its components. Psychological correlates of emotional intelligence, attachment style in adult and self esteem are risk factors of addiction phenomena, and they have many applications in the field of preventive and therapeutic interventions of ab use behaviors.

The aim of this study is to study the effect of spiritual group therapy on resilience in female patients with multiple sclerosis. This research is of semi experimental type and research plan is a two-group type with pre- experimentatation and post- experimentation.The population consists of 4850 female patients who submitted in M.S Association of Isfahan that have Relapsing- Remitting MS and 20-40 years old with out any pschologycal deseases. from this population 30 case were selected based on random sampling method and were placed randomly in to experimental and control groups. spiritual training was given to the experimental group in 10 sessions. The data was analiysed using spss 17 and co-variance(ancova)method. in this research resilience scale (Conner & Davidson,2003) and traiming-therapy pakage of Taghizade and Miralaie were used. Significant differences were found in resilienc of experimental group after intervention{F=8.04, P-valu=0.0001},There were no significant defferences in the resilience of patients in control group between pre-experimentatation and post- experimentation (P>0.05).Conclution: The spiritual therapy is effective in increasing the resilience of female patients with M.S.