eng
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2322-1194
2676-2900
2018-05-01
12
1
1
8
79520
مقاله پژوهشی
Development of the Persian Version of the Integrative Hope Scale: A Review of Psychometric Indices
Bahareh Barzegar
bahar.barzegar@yahoo.com
1
Parviz Azadfallah
azadfallah.parviz@gmail.com
2
Hojatollah Farahani
ipsyhaf@gmail.com
3
Ali Fathi-Ashtiani
afa1337@gmail.com
4
Department of Psychology, Tarbiat Modares University
Department of Psychology, Tarbiat Modares University
Department of psychology,Tarbiat Modares university. Tehran. Iran.
Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
Abstract Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to prepare a Persian version of the Integrated Hope Scale along with examining its reliability and validity. Methods: Therefore, 230 Master’s and Ph.D. students of the Tarbiat Modares University were selected, 10 participants for each item (total: 23 items). The convenience sampling method was used in the study, and participants filled out the translated version of the Integrated Hope Scale (IHS), General Health Scale (GHS), and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Factor analysis, face and content validity, as well as the convergent and divergent validity, were used to assess the overall validity of the questionnaire. Results: Results of the factor analysis, that was performed using the parallel analysis method, confirmed that there were four factors in the scale: trust and confidence, lack of vision, positive orientation towards the future, and social communication and personal values. These four factors were similar to those in the original scale. The split-half method showed that the reliability of the scale was 0.83, and the internal consistency index (Cronbach's alpha) indicated that the validity of the total scale was 0.72 and that of the subscales ranged from 0.74 to 0.84. Conclusion: Based on these results, it seems that the IHS enjoys good validity and reliability and has the necessary adequacy to be used in future studies.
https://www.behavsci.ir/article_79520_be9fe32d9bc643494e20c94fe8420ff8.pdf
Factor analysis
hope
Reliability
Students
Validity
eng
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2322-1194
2676-2900
2018-05-01
12
1
9
17
81137
مقاله پژوهشی
The Effectiveness of Attachment-based Parent Training Method in Anxiety Syndrome of Preschool Children
Saeid Ghanbari
ghanbari_sbu@yahoo.com
1
Mohammadkarim Khodapanahi
khodapanahi@gmail.com
2
Masoud Gholamali Lavasani
lavasani@ut.ac.ir
3
Mohammadali Mazaheri
m_mazaheri@sbu.ac.ir
4
Reyhane Rezapour Faridian
rf.reyhane@gmail.com
5
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Professor, Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
4Professor, Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
M.A in family counseling, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of attachment-based parent training on anxiety syndrome in 2- to 6-year-old children. Method: A quasi-experimental design was conducted in this research. 278 mothers completed The Spence Preschool Anxiety Scales (SPAS). 74 mothers that their children’s anxiety scores were one standard deviation above the population’s mean were selected. They completed The Conner’s Behavioral Rating Scale, investigating the absence of any other psychological problems in those children. Finally, 61 mothers were selected and assigned to the experimental and control group and received the training package for eight sessions, 2-hour-long each. Three months after finishing finishing the trainin g sessions for the experimental group and 3 months later, The SPAS were completed by mothers in both groups. Repeated mesures ANOVA was used to analyze the data. Result: The results showed that Parent Training Package diccreased generalized, social and separation anxiety subscales and total anxiety score in the experimental group more than the control group (p<0.0001). This reduction was sustained during the three months of follow-up, but no significant reduction in problems related to obsessive compulsive disoder and physical injury phobia was found after the intervention. Conclusion: It can be concluded that attachment-based parent training can decrease anxiety in preschool children. These results suggest that child therapists can use this method in order to prevent and treat children’s anxiety.
https://www.behavsci.ir/article_81137_3f41b5f61a3e2233537748bde44691f9.pdf
Attachment-based Parent Training Package
Anxiety
Maternal Caregiving Quality
preschool children
eng
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2322-1194
2676-2900
2018-04-29
12
1
18
24
81143
مقاله پژوهشی
The Prediction of Psychological Well-being Based on Death Anxiety and Self-compassion in the Elderly
Payam Varaee
varaee.payam@stu.razi.ac.ir
1
Khodamorad Momeni
khmomeni2000@yahoo.com
2
Asie Moradi
asie.moradi@razi.ac.ir
3
Razi University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Razi University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Razi University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Introduction:Elderly is a sensitive period of human life that pose high risk and problems to aged people.However, elderly people who have a high level of psychological well-being will be able to deal with these problems and disorientation. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between Self-Compassion and Death anxiety with psychological well-being in the elderly. Method:The present study is a descriptive correlational research. The population was all old men in the part-time center for keeping elderly in Kermanshah. A nonrandom and volunteer sample of 300 elderly people from the Mehregan part-time elderly care center in Kermanshah (Iran) participated in the study. To collect data, Ryff’s Psychological Well-being Questionnaire (1989), Short Self-Compassion Forms of Raes et al. (2011), and Templer’s Death Anxiety (1970) were used.Collected data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analyses by the stepwise method. Results: The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between self-compassion and Psychological well-being (r = 0.61) while there is a negative significant relationship between Psychological well-being and Death anxiety (r = -0.20). The results of multiple regression analysis using stepwise method showed that in the order of their importance,Over-identified, Self-kindness, Isolation, Mindfulness, Death anxiety, and Self-judgment, all together are capable of predicting 57% of changes in psychological well-being. Conclusion:According to the results of this study, enhancing Self-Compassion and elaboration and implementation of strategies to reduce the Anxiety of Death can enhance the Psychological well-being of the elderly,especially in the center that keep the elderly.
https://www.behavsci.ir/article_81143_865f7f488148abba665feba70de57371.pdf
Elderly
Psychological Well-Being
Death anxiety
self-compassion
eng
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2322-1194
2676-2900
2018-04-22
12
1
25
31
81286
مقاله پژوهشی
A Dynamic Intervention for Removing Learning Anxiety: A Field Experiment on Removing Psychological Barriers to Speaking
Sajad Farokhi pour
sadradone@gmail.com
1
Hooshang Khoshsima
www.farokhipours@yahoo.com
2
Abdulah Sarani
www.sarani_ling@hamoon.ac.ir
3
Mansoor Ganji
www.mansoorg@gmail.com
4
Chabahar Maritime University
Chabahar maritime University
Sistan and Baluchistan University
Chabahar Maritime University
Introduction: Research findings in the last decades have shown that anxiety and its debilitative consequences exert damaging effect on learning. Enjoying a profound theoretical foundation in Vygotskian theories of cognitive development and psychological therapy, dynamic assessment and interventions propose a framework for promoting student’s learning through mediation and support in the zone of proximal development of mind. The present study was an attempt to use this framework to remove anxiety and psychological barriers to mastering speaking in English classes. Methods: To this aim foreign language classroom anxiety scale (FLCAS) was adopted and administered to 250 first grade high school students in Qom and the researcher selected 10 students with highest anxiety score, serving as experimental group (n=10). The research used an experimental design, in which experimental group’s anxiety scores in pre-test (before dynamic intervention) and post-test (after dynamic intervention) was calculated. Also, the group was given a speaking exam in pre-test and post-test conditions to trace learning after dynamic intervention. Data were analyzed through paired t-test procedure. Results: the findings of the study showed that the intervention significantly relieved anxiety symptoms (t (9) =18.974, p =0.000) and promoted learning speaking (t (9) =-8.508, p =0.000). Furthermore, descriptions of treatment showed the way the intervention treated anxiety symptoms and resulted in internalization of learning. Conclusion: In sum, the current study identified major anxiety symptoms and introduced a fast, non-obtrusive, and time and money saving method for treating anxiety. Findings have implications for psychologists, counselors, teachers and health and education decision makers.
https://www.behavsci.ir/article_81286_397a2c0a04404711c7e997e7f54e1bd4.pdf
Anxiety
Dynamic Intervention
Learning
speaking
ZPD
eng
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2322-1194
2676-2900
2018-04-24
12
1
32
36
81290
مقاله پژوهشی
Predicting the Students’ Internet Addiction Based on the Behavioral Activation / Inhibition Systems and Social Anxiety
Mahdiyeh Shafieetabar
shafieetabar2005@yahoo.com
1
Azra Zebardast
azrazebardast@yahoo.com
2
PhD in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Human Science, Arak University, Arak, Iran
Ph.D in psychology, Department of psychology, Faculty of literature and human science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
Abstract Introduction: The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of Behavioral activation/inhibition Systems and Social Anxiety in prediction of Students' Internet Addiction. Methods: The study uses a descriptive-correlative design. For this purpose, 356 students were selected through random cluster sampling from Arak University (172 males and 184 females). They were asked to answer the Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Systems Scale, Internet Addiction Test and Social phobia Inventory. Then, the correlation and regression analyses were employed. Results: The results indicated that Social Anxiety were significantly and positively correlated with Internet Addiction, there was no significant relationship between Internet Addiction and Behavioral Activation System, and Behavioral inhibition System were significantly and positively correlated with Internet Addiction. Regression analysis showed that Social Anxiety and Behavioral inhibition System could predict Internet Addiction. Conclusion: Based on the present study results, it can be concluded that Social Anxiety and Behavioral inhibition System predicted higher levels of Internet Addiction.
https://www.behavsci.ir/article_81290_cd88788d1d86af76b18df0c05b9a6eaf.pdf
Keywords: Internet Addiction
Behavioral inhibition System
Behavioral Activation System
Student
eng
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2322-1194
2676-2900
2018-04-18
12
1
36
41
81502
مقاله پژوهشی
Designing and testing a structural model of attachment styles and negative affects variables as predictors of young men's body dissatisfaction
Neda Shahvaroughi Farahani
neda.shfarahani@gmail.com
1
Faramarz Sohrabi
sohrabi@atu.ac.ir
2
Golnaz Mazaherinejadfard
golnaz_mazaheri@yahoo.com
3
Maral Hasan Larijani
larijani.maral@gmail.com
4
PhD Student of Psychology, Clinical and General Psychology Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allame Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
Full Professor at Clinical and General Psychology Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
PhD Student of Psychology, Applied Psychology Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Master of Clinical Psychology, Clinical and General Psychology Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allame Tabatabai, University, Tehran, Iran
Introduction: The main objective of this study is to investigate the role of attachment styles in body dissatisfaction with the mediating role of negative affects in male students at Allameh Tabataba'i University. Methods: In this paper, a cross sectional study was employed to survey convenience sampling method on 250 male students from March to May 2017. They were answered Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), Revised Adult Attachment Scale (RAAS) and Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS). Structural equation modeling was utilized in this study. Results: Analysis of the data indicated that the proposed model had adequate goodness-of-fit indices. In addition, the findings demonstrated that attachment style was directly related to the body dissatisfaction. It should be noted that attachments style predicted slightly body dissatisfaction by mediation of negative affects. Conclusions: As a result, men with insecure attachment styles are likely to look more critical towards their bodies and experience more negative affects which may maintain body dissatisfaction.
https://www.behavsci.ir/article_81502_0f46c7f3a2e8d7a726d977c8e095db45.pdf
Keywords: Attachment Styles
negative affects
Body dissatisfaction
eng
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2322-1194
2676-2900
2018-04-29
12
1
42
47
81638
مقاله پژوهشی
Behavioral Parent Training and Psychological Problems in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Soraya Gheydari
sorayaa2040@gmail.com
1
Mohsen Amiri
amiri_tmu@yahoo.com
2
Masoud Hejazi
masod1357@yahoo.com
3
Farahnaz Farjamfar
f.fargamfar1367@gmail.com
4
M.A. in Clinical psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
M.A in psychology, Department of psychology, Yazd branch, Islamic azad university, Yazd, iran
Introduction: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of parental behavior training of mothers with autism spectrum disorder, on reducing anxiety, depression and stress in mothers. Methods: This was an experimental study with pretest, posttest, and a control group. The statistical population of the research was consisted of all mothers who have children with autism disorder. The sample of the research was compromised of 30 mothers with autistic children who were selected through available sampling and were blind matched in the form of two groups based on different variables such as age, education, economic status. The research tools were included Beck Depression Inventory- (BDI, II), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) And Parenting Stress Index (PSI). The parents were trained during 9 sessions in examination group, each of which lasted for 90 minutes. Finally, both groups answered to the questionnaires as post test. The data was analyzed using ANCOVA test. Results: The results analysis shows the impact of experimental application on reducing the level of anxiety and depression of mothers in experimental group comparing control group (p<0/05). Parents’ behavioral training also led to reduce parenting stress in examination group (p<0/05). Conclusion: In general, results show that mothers’ behavioral training will reduce their psychological problems and prevent the parenting stress from increasing in mothers with autistic children.
https://www.behavsci.ir/article_81638_6c04e69fac6be54eaac192f4a19df682.pdf
Autism spectrum disorder
Parents’ behavioral Training
Anxiety
depression
Parenting stress