فصلنامه مطالعات تربیتی و روانشناسی
پیاپی 1 (بهار 1378)

Some women have multiple roles in family, occupation and society. This research is conducted to investigate the effects of multiple roles on the mental health of women. A sample of 234 female teachers participated in the study. The hypotheses were: (1) Stress of women with more multiple roles is significantly higher than women with less multiple roles. (2) Stress of women with more satisfaction from their multiple roles is significantly higher than women with less satisfaction. (3) Self-esteem of women with more multiple roles is higher than women with less multiple roles, and (4) self-esteem of women with more satisfaction from their multiple roles is higher than women with less satisfaction. T-test showed no significant difference between groups of the first and the second hypotheses, and a significant difference between groups of hypotheses three and four

This research deals with the place of information resources in the process of learning among Ferdowsi University students. The sample consisted of 366 students from 8 faculties. They were selected by the systematic method of sampling and have answered seven main questions and SO sub-questions. The analysis of data was done by descriptive and infrential statistics. The result showed that those students who entered the university in 1372 and 1373 in siences and humanities branches have similar views upon three items of questionaire which are discussed in this article. According to the data, for students of social sciences the possibility of social promotion and for the students of humanities the possibility of personal development and for the students of sciences the possibility of studying at hagher level are the most important aims of coming to the university. The majority of students have gain less than what they expected from studying in university. To the students the most important factors to be changed for achieving better education are the faculty members.

This paper discusses the phenomenology and nature of worry, as the cognitive component of anxiety, distinct from anxiety's emotional component. Based on a review of the empirical and theoretical literature concerning anxiety and worry, worry was tentatively defined as chains of thoughts and images, negatively affect-laden and relatively uncontrollable. Worry is the most commonly reported symptom in patients with psychological problems. Worry is used as a central diagnostic feature of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Worry also plays an important role in other psychological disorders, including insomnia, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, performances anxiety, and depression.Despite the pervasiveness of worry, it has only recently come under experimental scrutiny and little is known about its nature or function. Although worry plays an important role in a number of clinical disorders, the concept of worry is not defined anywhere in DSM-IV. It seems that there are two main reasons for this neglect. First there has been major disagreement about its difficultness to measure. In addition, there are few adequate models of worry that provide specific guidelines for its treatment. Consequently, there are fewer therapeutic developments, relative to other anxiety disorders, specific to worry

In this article, the author clarifies the nature of thinking and performance of the human mind as a key to achieve the goals of the educational system in the postmodernism era. The author reviews the literature and the models of thining. Then in an alternative framework, presents a new model for thinking as a guidance for perception of the nature of thinking and the method of teaching how to think

To develop a test for measuring the intellgence capability of preschool children, 274 childern of age 4-6 in Mashhad kindergartens were selected and were tested by elven subtests of WPPSI as it is presented in 1375 by Ravan Padid Institute.It was found that WPPSI used for this study is relatively valid and reliable for children who attent either in a kindergarten or in a nursery school. A high corelation found between verbal IQ and performance IQ. used for childern

The purpose of this research is to compare the compatibility of self-concept componets of psychotic patients, neurotics, and normal persons. According to the main hypothesis of this study, there is a significant difference between compatibility of self-concept components (actual-self vs ideal-self) in psychotic patients, neurotics and normal persons. The population of this research are the patients who reffered to the psychiatry clinic of Golestan & Sherkat Naft's Hospital of Ahwaz, plus a group of normal persons who have never reffered to mental health specialist. The sample consists of 20 psychotic patients (9 women and 11 men), and 20 neurotics (9 womem and 11 men), and 20 normal (9 women and 11 men). The subjects of three groups were matched according to three variables sex, age and degree of education. According to the results of a one-way analysis of variance, there are significant differences among phi coefficients of three groups. The follow-up Tukey's test showed that found the compatibility of actual-self and ideal-self in psychotics is more than that in the neurotics. Fruthermore, compatibility is more than neurotics, self-concept comonents in normal persons