Fātemeh Saeediyān; Mohammad-Rezā Nili
Volume 2, Issue 5 , February 2012, , Pages 91-115
Abstract
Background: Women living as the head of a family are vulnerable for a variety of reasons.
Objectives: This investigation examined the effect of assertiveness training on social adjustment and positive self concept of those women in Tehran who head their family and household. In this research, the assumption ...
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Background: Women living as the head of a family are vulnerable for a variety of reasons.
Objectives: This investigation examined the effect of assertiveness training on social adjustment and positive self concept of those women in Tehran who head their family and household. In this research, the assumption is that assertiveness training is influential on social adjustment and positive self concept of such women.
Methods: This research was quasi-experimental with pre-post test and control group. The sample consisted of 30 head-of-household women living in Tehran. Bell social adjustment and Tennessee self concept are two questionnaires that are used in this study. "T test" has been used for the analysis of the aggregate data.
Conclusions: The results showed that assertiveness training has a meaningful influence on the social adjustment of head-of-household women, but no effect on their positive self concept.
Sepideh Barghandan; Morteza Tarkhan; Nima Ghaemi Khomami
Volume 2, Issue 8 , February 2012, , Pages 140-165
Abstract
Adolescence is one of the important stages of evolution in human life that associated with frequency of stressful factors. This course represents a deep change that separates children of adult and creates the different transformations in it. All people living with challenges and problems but everyone ...
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Adolescence is one of the important stages of evolution in human life that associated with frequency of stressful factors. This course represents a deep change that separates children of adult and creates the different transformations in it. All people living with challenges and problems but everyone answers to the issues in their way. Some of them face in reasonable assessment and logical way. In contrast, some other try in different methods such as the occurrence of anger and aggression, taking refuge in alcohol and other drugs and avoid of dealing with problems by ineffective strategies Instead of adjustment coping. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of anger management training on social adjustment of high school female students in Rasht city.The design of this study is experimental with pretest-post test control group. Statistical population of this research is all of the high school female students in Rasht city that have been studying in 1389-90. . Sampling (n= 30) was done from subjects with Adjustment Inventory for High school Student (AISS) that their score were higher than group mean score and were divided in control (n=15) and experimental (n=15) groups. The experimental group attended at anger management training program in 8 sessions, 90 minutes each. Data analyzed by MANCOVA method’s at SPSS-16 software.
The finding indicated that observed F proportion was statistically significant (p < 0.05According to these result, anger management training can be effective in increasing social adjustment or reducing the Intensity of Non-social adjustment.
