masoomeh parpanji; ali delavar; noorali farrokhi
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The purpose of this study was to design a comprehensive mental health promotion model in girls' schools in Tehran. Method: The research method is a mixed (quantitative-qualitative) method. The statistical population of this study included all students of Tehran girls' schools who were studying in the ...
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The purpose of this study was to design a comprehensive mental health promotion model in girls' schools in Tehran. Method: The research method is a mixed (quantitative-qualitative) method. The statistical population of this study included all students of Tehran girls' schools who were studying in the academic year of 96-97. The sample consisted of 150 female students in Tehran who were selected by cluster random sampling method. The instruments used included General Health Questionnaire, Neo Characteristics, Family Valuation, Social Support, and Economic and Educational Factors. Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The findings showed that personality trait (0.63) was more than other factors, family relationships (0.43), social factors (0.37), and educational factors (0.51) could explain the variance of mental health in students. Family relationships play a decisive role in mental health of students. Among family factors, the component of emotional reactions in the family with a coefficient of 0.75 was able to play a more important role. There is a significant relationship between educational achievement and students' health at the level of 0.001. The coefficient of behavior of teachers with mental health of students is equal to 0.59 and significant. Also, the coefficient of school staffing path with mental health of students is equal to 0.51 and significant. educational factors such as the behavior of teachers and school staff can play an effective role in improving mental health of students. Also, out of a variety of personality traits, the extraversion feature is able to predict mental health of students with a coefficient of 0.46, as compared to other characteristics. B it can be suggested by holding workshops and related educational programs for students (providing leaflets), while clarifying the effect of different factors on their mental health, to address the deficiencies in walked this field.
Mahmood Najafi; Hasan Ahadi; Faramarze Sohrabi; Ali Delavar
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The aim of this research was to present the life satisfaction path analysis predictive model Predictive Model of Life Satisfaction based on positive psychology constructs. For this purpose, 100 employees of Tehran University were selected by multiple cluster sampling method. The instruments used in this ...
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The aim of this research was to present the life satisfaction path analysis predictive model Predictive Model of Life Satisfaction based on positive psychology constructs. For this purpose, 100 employees of Tehran University were selected by multiple cluster sampling method. The instruments used in this study were spiritual well-being, religiosity, hope, optimism, self-esteem, self-efficacy and life satisfaction. The collected data were analyzed using LISREL 7/8 by path analysis method. Results showed that that in the first presented model only, some indexes were fitted. So the modified model showed better fitting through data. Results indicated that spirituality; religiosity, hope, self-esteem, and self-efficacy variables have significant direct relationship with life satisfaction. Also, there is a significant indirect relationship between spirituality and religiosity with life satisfaction through hope, optimism, self-esteem, and self-efficacy variables. There was not significant relationship between gender, marital and economic status with life satisfaction. Finally in this research the role of positive psychology constructs were confirmed in life satisfaction that this finding indicates the importance of positive psychology constructs in life satisfaction.
Azad Hemmati; Mahmoud Dezhkam; ali delavar; Mohammad Kazem Atef Vahid; Ahmad Borj’ali; kambiz kamkari
Volume 3, Issue 12 , March 2013, , Pages 69-82
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The present research aims to study the consistency between the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) scales and DSM-IV axis II. The study was a questionnaire survey research applying methodological and testing methods. First, the experimental background of the Iranian data for PSY-5 as well as the ...
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The present research aims to study the consistency between the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) scales and DSM-IV axis II. The study was a questionnaire survey research applying methodological and testing methods. First, the experimental background of the Iranian data for PSY-5 as well as the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) were studied. Then, the consistency between PSY-5 and DSM-5 was investigated in a multivariate environment through examining the joint factor analysis of PSY-5 and PID-5. The data were collected using MMPI-2-RF and PID-5 questionnaires. The sample population included 793 (student, non-student, and clinical) subjects selected from among all people older than 16 in Tehran. At the end, 452 protocols of the answered items were recognized as valid for doing statistical analysis. Depending on the research questions, the methods of question categorization, exploratory factor analysis, principal component analysis with varimax rotation, common factor analysis, maximum-likelihood estimation with varimax rotation, Horn's parallel analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, goodness of fit index (GFI), X2 / d. f. ratio, adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI), comparative fit index (CFI), root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA), and SPSS and AMOS software. The results were indicative of a good fitness of the research data with confirmatory factor analysis models for both PSY-5 and PID-5 scales. The results of the common exploratory factor analysis also confirmed the hypothesis, and showed that each scale of PSY-5 had a significant factor loading in the expected areas of DSM-5.
Solmaz Mobassem; Ali Delavar; Abolfazl Karami; Baqer Sana'i; Abdollah Shafi'abadi
Volume 3, Issue 9 , February 2013, , Pages 81-102
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The presence of one of the couple (wife) in therapy with intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy approach can improve the marital relationship. The purpose of present study is to determine the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in decreasing the marital conflict in women. ...
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The presence of one of the couple (wife) in therapy with intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy approach can improve the marital relationship. The purpose of present study is to determine the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in decreasing the marital conflict in women. The study was administered with a quasi-experimental design and case study in the centers of psychology and counseling in Tehran. Five women who had marital conflict and were appropriate for short-term dynamic psychotherapy were sampled purposefully. They participated individually in 12–15 therapeutic sessions with Davanloo’s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Marital conflict questionnaire was completed by participants in two stages, before and one week after intervention. The data were analyzed by dependent t-test. The results showed that the marital conflict of women of case study (n=5) was less than that before the intervention. Intervention treatments, based on the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy, can be useful for decreasing marital conflict in women.
Ali Delavar; Asieh Ebrahimi
Volume 3, Issue 10 , February 2013, , Pages 116-137
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The aim of this study is to quantitatively combine the theses about the individual and family factors influencing conduct disorder. For this purpose, meta-analysis was used as a statistical technique to identify, collect, combine, and summarize the research findings related to the role of effective factors ...
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The aim of this study is to quantitatively combine the theses about the individual and family factors influencing conduct disorder. For this purpose, meta-analysis was used as a statistical technique to identify, collect, combine, and summarize the research findings related to the role of effective factors on conduct disorder. The population of research included studies that had been done in Iran about effective factors of conduct disorder in children and adolescents, and the sample included all theses done in this field at the universities of Tehran (20 theses). The mean effect size (r) in individual factors was 0.33 in fixed effects model and 0.37 in random effects model while the mean effect size (r) in family factors was 0.05 in fixed effects model and 0.04 in random effects model. According to Cohen's criteria, the effect size of individual factors and family factors were below the average and low, respectively. But, in the investigation of separative effect size of factors, variables social skills, life skills, guilt feel, being a working child, academic achievement, internal-external attributions, planning-organizing ability, attention to class, mental state of parents, their marital satisfaction, their substance abuse and self-esteem were high and significant due to Cohen's standards. Because of the significance of Q statistic which resulted from the heterogeneity of studies, sex, measuring instruments, sampling method, and age variables were entered into the analysis as confounding variables. Z-test of the studies related to individual factors showed that the effect size was significant for all intervening variables. In contrast, z-test of the studies on family factors showed it to be significant only for variables of sex and measuring instruments. Due to the high mean of effect size in variables listed above, researchers and clinicians should consider the importance of these factors in evaluation and treatment of behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. They should also take note of the role of modulators listed above in their future studies.
