Mrs Masomeh Tadris Tabrizi, Dr Majid Saffarinia, Dr Mahnaz Aliakbari Dehkordi, Dr Ahmad Alipour,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (6-2022)
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The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship of Alexithymia and female sexual function by mediating social exchange styles. the research method was a descriptive correlational. The Statistical population was composed of all married women living in Tehran, of which 550 individuals participated in the study through online recall. The research tool included Toronto alexithymia scale, the Women's Sexual Function Scale and Social Exchange Styles Scale. Fitness of the proposed model was estimated through structural equation modeling (SEM) and using Lisrel software package. The mediating relationship in the proposed pattern were tested using the bootstrap procedure. The results of structural equation modeling indicating fitness of model and showed that alexithymia with the mediation of benefit-seeking style and overinvestment style had an indirect effect on sexual function. According to the results, in order to improve sexual function should be considered in social exchange styles. The findings of the present study provide a useful framework for identifying the influential components in the field of social psychology in women's sexual function that should be considered in prevention and treatment programs.
Mrs Sara Hosseinpoor, Dr Zahra Zanjani, Dr Abdollah Omidi, Dr Mohammadreza Molaghanbari, Rasti Emamirad,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (6-2022)
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| Ulcerative Colitis is a type of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases that depression is one of the most common psychological disorders in these patients. The aim of this study was to compare the characteristics associated with the disease including the severity and complications of the disease and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patients with ulcerative colitis with and without depressive symptoms. In this case-control study, 272 patients with ulcerative colitis were selected by purposive sampling and based on the scores of Beck-2 Depression Inventory, they were assigned into two groups of patients with depressive symptoms and patients without depressive symptoms. Our tools include demographic questionnaire, Simple Clinical Colits Activity Index, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Results revealed that UC patients with depressive symptoms experience more severe symptoms of UC and more complications related to this disease, including perianal problems than UC patients without depressive symptoms. There was also a significant difference between the two groups in all aspects of cognitive strategies for emotion regulation. According to the results, it can be said that depression and cognitive emotion regulation strategies are among the components related to physical symptoms and mental health of patients with ulcerative colitis. |
Fatemeh Abbasi Tehrani, Dr Mohammad Naghi Farahani, Dr Mahnaz Shahgholian Ghahfarrokhi, Dr Balal Izanloo,
Volume 16, Issue 2 (9-2022)
Abstract
This study aimed to develop and introduce training package of chronic pain self-management interventions and evaluate its effects on improving pain self-management (PSM), mindfulness skills (MS), metacognitive beliefs (MB), and cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERS) in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). The statistical population included all patients with CMP who were referred to Tehran hospitals between June 2020 and December 2021. Among these, 22 people (two experimental and control groups) of eligible individuals were selected by voluntary sampling method and examined during a quasi-experimental design. The experimental group underwent 8 online intervention sessions and were evaluated online by GSCS-7, PSMC-18, FFMQ-39, MCQ-30 and CERQ-18 during tree sessions (pre-test, post-test and follow-up). Data were analyzed by MANKOVA. According to the results, the overall effects of the self-management interventions were significant (p < 0.05). Also the interventions had a significant effects on improving PSM, increasing the use of MS, and improving CERS (p<0.05), however, the interventions had no significant effects on reducing dysfunctional MB (p < 0.05). Considering the evidence from this study, the authors believe that the use of chronic pain self-management interventions for people with CMP has significant clinical benefits, so its use is recommended to health care providers.
Dr Shahrbanoo Aali, Marziyeh Dindoost, Hajar Aliyaki,
Volume 16, Issue 2 (9-2022)
Abstract
Objective: The life situation of women with disabilities is complex and full of attitudinal, social and economic barriers to their socio-psychological well-being. Now, if these women are also mothers, there will certainly be consequences for the children of such mothers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to understand the lived experiences of girls who had a mother with a physical and mental disability. Method: The method of the present study was qualitatively phenomenological. The study sample consisted of 11 girls with a mean age of 20.5 years who had a mother with physical and mental disabilities and were selected by purposive and snowball sampling. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, then implemented verbatim and analyzed by Smith and Osborne interpretive phenomenology. Results: In this study, 4 main themes were identified: coping with maternal disability, feeling of maternal emptiness, perceiving differences in family structure and personal challenges created for the child. Some of the main themes included subsets. Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be said that the lives of girls have been affected by the mother's disability and it is necessary to provide a support system for families who face such problems.
--- Seyedeh Hamideh Naghibi, --- Reza Pourhosein, --- Mehdi Reza Sarafraz, --- Ali Sadeghinia,
Volume 16, Issue 3 (1-2023)
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Defense mechanisms are a determining factor for the level of psychological pathology, and this is of particular importance in atopic dermatitis patients. The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on the defense mechanisms of patients with atopic dermatitis. The present study is a semi-experimental design of single subject type. The statistical population of this study included patients with atopic dermatitis who referred to Razi Hospital in Tehran in 2019, of which 5 people were selected through available sampling. These people underwent 10 individual sessions of intensive short-term psychodynamic therapy. Subjects completed the defense mechanisms questionnaire during the baseline phase, during the intervention, and during follow-up. To analyze the data, visual analysis and calculation of recovery percentage were used. According to the scores of the patients in the charts of changes, all patients showed an acceptable improvement in defense styles. The overall improvement rate of patients in underdeveloped, developed, and neurotic defense styles at the end of the intervention were 37.6%, 49.2%, and 40.4%, respectively, which indicates the effectiveness of short-term intensive dynamic psychotherapy in reducing Underdeveloped and neurotic defensive styles and increased defensive style are developed.
- Masood Taghadossi, - Mohamad Naghi Farahani, - Morteza Manteghi,
Volume 16, Issue 3 (1-2023)
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The collapse of a marital relationship has many damages; research in this field is importance. The purpose is to identify effective factors in the collapse marital relationship in Iran. 10 experts and 12 experienced divorce people were interviewed. The interviews were first conducted with couple relationship specialists and the data extracted from these interviews formed a semi-structured interview to interview selected people. data identified 3 main categories, extra-couple, intra-couple and individual factors. cultural differences, religion, cyber space and media, social interactions, inappropriate social context, economic factors, destructive interaction between couple and family, negative influence of family, misplaced intervention, lack of support from extramarital factors; Lack of skills, conflict of roles, sexual problems, childbearing, differences, poor interaction, destructive behavior between couples, lack of understanding, change of couple's style, the way it is formed from factors between couples and lack of trust, indifference to obligations, individualism, lack of knowledge. indifference to other issues, feeling of loss, loss of attractiveness, change in values, psychological, personality and physical disorders, destructive attitudes towards couple relationship, behavioral characteristics and personality traits are the factors of the collapse of couple relationship. The data obtained can be used to improve the health of the individual, family and society.
Soheil Redaei, Mohammad Ali Goodarzi, Mahdi Imani,
Volume 16, Issue 4 (3-2023)
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Pain is an unpleasant experience, usually accompanied by potential or actual tissue injury, and is composed of emotional, sensory, cognitive, and social components. Past research has shown that both cognitive and emotional factors play a significant role in experiencing pain. An important complication of cancer is pain. More than 70 % of cancer patients experience disease-related pain. The cancer-caused chronic pain affects the quality of life of people with cancer. It also increases the risk of depression and anxiety in these patients. Psychological factors play a significant role in how patients adapt to pain. The research design was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population included people with Leukemia who had referred to clinics and hospitals in Yazd for treatment and chemotherapy. In total, 240 individuals were selected by convenient sampling method. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between metacognitions, meta-emotions, psychological flexibility and experienced pain. The presence of negative emotions and decreased mental flexibility was associated with increased pain. The role of psychological flexibility as a mediating variable between metacognition and meta-emotion with the amount of pain experienced was confirmed. It was demonstrated that metacognitions and meta-emotions, through psychological flexibility affect the degree of the pain experienced.
Mrs Leila Soleimanian, Mrs Fatemeh Mohammadi Shirmahaleh, Mr Javid Peymani, Mrs Marzieh Gholami Tooranposhti, Mrs Nahid Havasi Soomar,
Volume 16, Issue 4 (3-2023)
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The purpose of this study was to cmpare the effectiveness of Cognitive behavioral therapy and compassion-based therapy on glycosylated hemoglobin and coronaanxiety diabetic patients. This research was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and with a control group. The research population of patients with diabetes were members of the Hamedan Diabetes Association in 2020. Among them, 48 people were selected using available sampling method and they were divided into two experimental groups and one control group with the help of lottery. In one group, cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention program and in the other group, compassion-based interventions were trained for 8 sessions of 90 minutes each, and the control group was placed on the waiting list for training.Blood tests of patients were used to measure glycosylated hemoglobin, and the Corona Virus Anxiety Scale (2018) was used to measure the anxiety of Corona virus. The research data were analyzed using the Mancova statistical method and appropriate post hoc tests. The results indicate that compassion-based therapy on glycosylated hemoglobin was more effective than cognitive-behavioral therapy.No significant difference was observed between the compassion-based therapy and the cognitive-behavioral therapy regarding the corona anxiety In ordertoincrese thephsical andpsychological improvement.using of these treatmentin indiviual or group coursesseemes be effective
Miss Sanaz Nabipour, Dr Moradi Moradi, Dr Robabeh Nouri, Dr Hadi Parhoon, Dr Maryam Moghadasin,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (6-2023)
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Death anxiety is commonly experienced by individuals with advanced cancer who have a limited life expectancy. The Death and Dying Distress Scale (DADDS) is a validated measure that was created to capture this experience; but no Persian version is available to date. We conducted a cross-sectional study to explore the psychometric properties of a Pearsion version DADDS (DADDS) in patients with advanced cancer.200 patients with advanced cancer were recruited from the Imam Khomeini, Shohada Tajrish and Baqiyatallah hospitals. Measures administered included: DADDS-C, Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and General Anxiety Disorder-7(GAD-7). McDonald's Omega, Cronbach's alpha, Confirmatory Factor Analysis were used to test DADDS reliability and validity.The Persian version of DADDS has good reliability (internal consistency between 0.67 and 0.91 and test-retest reliability between 0.73 and 0.89) and appropriate convergent validity through correlation with PHQ-9 and GAD-7 in the range was between (0.47 to 0.51). Also, according to construct validity, SEM showed that the two-factor model is the best fitting model for DADDS in Persian language.The DADDS is a valid measure of death anxiety in Iranian patients with advanced cancer. It may provide useful information in the assessment and treatment of distress in patients near the end of life.
Malihe Pazooki, Khadige Abolmalihoseini,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (6-2023)
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This research aimed to validate and validate Ferguson and Negi's (2014) Dramatic Personality Disorder questionnaire in college students. The research method was descriptive-contextualization. The statistical population of this research included undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students who were studying in the universities of Tehran in the academic year of 2019. 307 students were selected as a sample using online sampling (available). Ferguson and Nagy's (2014) expressive personality questionnaire and MMPI scale were used to collect data. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the items of this questionnaire had the necessary power to measure the components of seduction, attracting attention and dramatic personality symptoms, and Cronbach's alpha of the mentioned components was 0.78 and 0.69, respectively, and the overall internal consistency of the questionnaire was equal to 0.7, the total score of the personality syndrome questionnaire was positively correlated with the scores of the psychological/social deviance, paranoia, mental weakness and schizophrenia components of the MMPI at a significance level of 0.01. Therefore, the questionnaire of demonstrative personality syndromes has good validity and reliability, and its use in research and treatment work is recommended to researchers and therapists.Key words: personality, Theatrical character, standardization, validity, reliability.
Dr. Fatteme Raiisi,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (9-2023)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to design, make and evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a pain metaphorical perception questionnaire in Persian-speaking who suffer from chronic diseases. The method of this study was descriptive and psychometric and it was a survey type of research. At first, based on the cognitive analysis of Raiisi's pain metaphors (2021), nine metaphorical mappings were extracted, which were respectively object, causality, path and direction, human, place, taste, container, force, and circle. Based on obtained source domains, a questionnaire with 25 questions was created using a Likert response scale. The content validity of questions was evaluated by three cognitive linguistics experts, two health psychologists, three physicians, and two psychometric experts. No questions were found to be irrelevant or inappropriate. At last, the questionnaire was completed availability and voluntarily by 250 monolingual Persian-speaking patients with chronic diseases in 2022-2023. The results indicated that there was a reliability coefficient by using Cronbach's alpha for the whole questionnaire and its components. Moreover, the result of the factor analysis showed that this questionnaire consists of four factors including object, force, human, and causality, which explain 24.66% of the total variance of the factors. Consequently, the questionnaire on pain metaphorical perception has good validity and reliability for Persian speakers
Dr Mojtaba Aghili, Mrs Masoomeh Zarif, Dr Ensiyeh Babaee,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (9-2023)
Abstract
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of treatment based on acceptance and commitment on psychological symptoms, quality of life and stress in patients with physical symptoms disorder. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population consisted of people with physical symptoms who referred to psychological counseling centers in West Tehran in 2001, and 30 people were selected by purposive sampling and placed in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The research tools were questionnaires on psychological symptoms by Najarian and Davoudi (2010), quality of life by War et al. (1993) and perceived stress by Cohen et al. (1983). The research data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance test. The findings showed that the treatment based on acceptance and commitment is effective on psychological symptoms, quality of life and stress in patients with physical symptoms disorder. The results of the research indicate that treatment based on acceptance and commitment by using cognitive skills leads to a reduction in psychological symptoms, perceived stress and an increase in the quality of life of patients with physical symptoms.
Miss Maryam Habibpour Dehkordi, Ph.d Azra Zebardast, Ph.d Sajjad Rezaei,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (9-2023)
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The present study was conducted to investigate the role of meaning in life and time perspective in predicting treatment adherence of cardiovascular patients with a history of angiography. The research design is descriptive. The population included all cardiovascular patients with a history of angiography referred to Shahid Chamran Cardiac Hospital of Isfahan in 1402. The sample included 169 patients with a history of angiography who were selected purposefully. For collecting data, questionnaires about treatment adherence Seyed Fatemi et al (2017), time perspective Zimbardo and Boyd's (1999), meaning in life Steger et al (2006) were used. The results showed that dimensions of meaning in life and dimensions of time perspective have a significant relationship with adherence. The results of the hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that the dimensions of meaning in life explain 46% of the variance of treatment adherence. These findings show that treatment adherence is influenced by meaning in life and time perspective. Therefore, it is possible to develop educational programs based on meaning in life and to adjust the time perspective to increase treatment adherence of cardiovascular patients who have been diagnosed at risk using an angiography diagnostic test to prevent the worsening of the disease through secondary prevention.
Yaser Bodaghi, Eshag Rahimian Boogar,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (9-2023)
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The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing metacognitive beliefs and pain catastrophizing between women with fibromyalgia syndrome, women with chronic pain and normal women. In this research, 40 people with fibromyalgia syndrome, 40 people with chronic pain and 40 normal people were selected from the women of Tehran. The participants completed two scales, the short form of the Wells Metacognition Questionnaire and the standard pain catastrophizing questionnaire. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and post hoc tests in SPSS 26 software. The results of the one-way analysis of variance test show that the mean scores of the pain catastrophizing variable are higher in the fibromyalgia group than in the chronic pain group and are higher in the chronic pain group than in the normal group. The results of multivariate variance analysis of metacognitive beliefs show that, except for the variable of positive belief about worry, the average of metacognitive beliefs in fibromyalgia and chronic pain groups is higher than the normal group. According to the findings of this research, dealing with metacognitive beliefs and pain catastrophizing in the treatment of patients with fibromyalgia and chronic pain should be taken into account.
Rezvan Amirzargar, Dr Mohammadali Besharat,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (9-2023)
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Stress, as a common factor in life today, has profound effects on heart health. This article examines the relationship between stress and heart diseases and examines the role of psychological factors in this process. The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of stress management in heart diseases. The research method is descriptive and analytical in terms of the fundamental goal and in terms of the data collection method. Finally, it has been concluded that stress management is effective in improving previous diseases and stress management strategies include: reducing depression, controlling anger, avoiding hostility, reducing social isolation, reducing anxiety, personality factors, having spiritual health, controlling the situation Social/Economic. As a result, managing stress and strengthening positive psychological factors is important as a strategy to prevent heart diseases and improve heart health. Recommendations include developing stress coping skills, promoting regular physical activity, promoting stress management educational processes, encouraging a positive attitude, and promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Sedigeh Ahmadi, Aysan Sharei, Ali Salmani,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (12-2023)
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| Adolescence is an important period for brain development, and self-harm during this period is associated with long-term consequences, including persistent psychopathology and behavioral disorders in the future. The present study was conducted with the aim of the relationship between the harmful use of mobile phones and emotional-behavioral problems in self-harming teenagers: with the mediation of self-contro. The method of the present research was applied in terms of its purpose and structural equation model in terms of correlation method. All secondary school students of the second period of Ardabil city with a history of self-harm in the academic year of 2023-2024 formed the statistical population of the present study. 280 of these people were selected and participated in the present study through purposive sampling. Achenbach's (2001) list of children's behavioral problems, Tanji, Baumeister and Boone's (2004) self-control questionnaire and Kuhei's (2009) mobile phone addiction questionnaire were used to collect data. The obtained data were analyzed using Pearson correlation tests and multiple regression analysis and path analysis using SPSS23 and Lisrel 8/lisrel 8 software. The obtained results showed that the structural model of using harmful smartphones and externalizing problems with the mediating role of self-control has a good fit. These results showed that externalizing problems had a direct and indirect effect with the mediation of self-control on externalizing problems. (P<0.001). The results of this study showed that externalizing problems in a sample of self-harming teenagers can play a role both directly and through the mediation of self-control in the use of harmful smartphones by teenagers. |
Dr Sanaz Dehghan Marvasti, Dr Ali Jafari,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (12-2023)
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the mediating role of marital adjustment in the relationship between love for spouse and the quality of married life of teachers. The research was descriptive in terms of purpose, application, and correlation type. The statistical population of the present study included all male and female teachers working in Yazd city (approximately 5500 people). The sampling method was multi-stage cluster random. Among 45 schools of district 1, 320 teachers were selected as research samples. His research tools were Sternberg's Love Questionnaire (1987), Busby et al.'s Quality of Marital Life (1995) and Spouse Compatibility Scale of Spanier and Crowley (1986). Path analysis method and Lisrel software were used for data analysis. The findings showed that there is a direct and meaningful relationship between the variable of love for spouse and compatibility of spouses (r=0.731). There is a direct and significant relationship (r=0.89) between the spouses' compatibility variable and the quality of married life. The variable of love for spouse does not have a direct and significant relationship with the quality of married life (r=0.07).
Salime Gharooni, Zohre Tajabadi, Dr Azade Abooei,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (12-2023)
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The purpose of this research was to predict the lifestyle of MS patients based on the indicators of self-compassion and emotional regulation and to investigate the mediating role of belief in a just world. The participants included 321 patients in Yazd city who completed the research questionnaires online or in person in an accessible manner.
The questionnaires were Walker's Lifestyle , Neff's Self-Compassion, Gross and John's Emotional Regulation, and Dalbert and Dagas' Belief in a Just World.
The results were analyzed with Smart pls software and partial least squares method. According to the results, the reliability, quality and predictive power of the fit structural model were confirmed (predictive power of lifestyle =0.41, belief in a just world= 0.17, and self-compassion = 0.20) and according to the findings, the effects of the total constructs of self-compassion, emotional regulation and belief in a just world in MS patients on lifestyle were 53%, 59% and 30%, respectively, and the mediating role of belief in a just world was also confirmed.
Ms Mona Masoudi, Mr Mohammadeza Poorjafar, Mr Saeed Piri,
Volume 17, Issue 4 (3-2024)
Abstract
The aging process, conducting research to obtain practical insights to improve their mental health. This study, with the aim of evaluating scientific research in the field of mental health of the elderly, used the descriptive research method, content analysis, and systematic review and co-occurrence techniques. "Magiran", "Sid" and "Noormags" databases were examined and the co-occurrence map of their keywords was drawn using Raver-matrix and UCINET software. The findings showed that Tehran province was in the first place, Shahrekord, Fars and Razavi Khorasan were in the second and third place. The most studied physical places were nursing homes and medical centers with a frequency of 29 and 18. Retirement centers, sports places and mosques were places with fewer studies. Descriptive-analytical method was the most used with 54% and correlational and quasi-experimental methods (pre and post-test) were ranked second and third with 30% and 28.73% frequency. The most used tools were questionnaires and interviews. The words "depression", "quality of life" with a frequency of 8 and a total link strength of 24 and 21 were the most frequent, "elderly women" and "anxiety" with an occurrence of 7 and 5 and a link strength of 14 and 15 among the most frequent keywords.
Dr. Fateme Dehghani-Arani, Msr. Zahra Asadi, Dr. Hojjatollah Farahani,
Volume 17, Issue 4 (3-2024)
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the desire to help others and resilience with growth after trauma with assessing the moderating role of guilt related to trauma in people with a history of covid-19 disease in close relative. For this purpose, 189 people who had one of their relatives admitted to the special care department of the hospital due to the covid-19 disease in the last six months were selected in an accessible method and completed the post-traumatic growth, resilience, trauma related guilt and altruism questionnaires. Based on the results of multiple regression analysis, trauma related guilt did not play a moderating role in the relationship between resilience and prosocial behaviors. In contrast, trauma-related guilt had a moderating role in the relationship between post-traumatic growth and willingness to help others. The conclusion from the findings of the present study can be indicative of the role of interpersonal and intrapersonal factors in promoting adaptation and even growth of people following traumatic experiences.
