masume aminikhoo; Naser Aghabababei
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This study was conducted to determine the effect of group logo-therapy on self-esteem, social skills, and anxiety among adolescent girls in Tehran, Iran. The research was performed in a semi-experimental method with two groups (15 girls per group): one experimental group with logo-therapy and one control ...
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This study was conducted to determine the effect of group logo-therapy on self-esteem, social skills, and anxiety among adolescent girls in Tehran, Iran. The research was performed in a semi-experimental method with two groups (15 girls per group): one experimental group with logo-therapy and one control group with treatment as usual. The Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, the Teenage Inventory of Social Skills, and Beck Anxiety Inventory have been applied to both groups in the pre- and post- intervention phases. Data were analyzed using Analysis of Covariance. Our results showed that group logo-therapy affected the levels of self-esteem and anxiety, but not social skills of these young girls. This study suggests that group logo-therapy may be useful for boosting some aspect of positive functioning of adolescent girls like self-esteem or reducing their negative feelings in response to anxiety but it may not be useful in improving their social skills. Implications of results have been discussed.
samireh karimi; Shekoofeh mottaghi; Afsaneh Moradi
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Sexual abuse is a trauma caused by injury, which seriously threatens the health of adolescents and makes them need professional help. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy in improving resilience and reducing the clinical symptoms of adolescents ...
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Sexual abuse is a trauma caused by injury, which seriously threatens the health of adolescents and makes them need professional help. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy in improving resilience and reducing the clinical symptoms of adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual harassment. The research design was a single subject with a follow-up period. The statistical population of the study included all 12 to 18-year-old girls with post-traumatic stress disorder due to sexual harassment in Izeh city who referred to the social emergency center in 2020. Two of them were selected through purposive sampling. Three baseline sessions were performed for each participant. Evaluations were done using the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale (Foa et al., 2018) and the Resilience Questionnaire (Connor and Davidson, 2003) at baseline, intervention sessions, and one month after treatment (follow-up). The intervention was performed individually based on mindfulness in 8 sessions. Data analysis was done using visual analysis of graph, recovery percentage and reliable percentage index. The results showed that both subjects showed a decreasing and improving trend in the scale of post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome and an increasing and improving trend in the Conner and Davidson Resilience Scale scores. Subjects preserved these results for up to one month after treatment. Based on the findings of the research, it is recommended that therapists in the field of children and adolescents use mindfulness therapies to achieve more effectiveness in increasing resilience and improving stress symptoms.
Somaye Ahmadi; Mahmood Heidari; Fatemeh Bagherian; Abdolrasoul Kashfi
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Despite the numerous studies that have been conducted on meaning in life, there is still an ambiguity that what are the sources of meaning in an adolescent’s life and how adolescent girls and boys differ regarding these sources and dimensions of presence and search for meaning. The present study ...
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Despite the numerous studies that have been conducted on meaning in life, there is still an ambiguity that what are the sources of meaning in an adolescent’s life and how adolescent girls and boys differ regarding these sources and dimensions of presence and search for meaning. The present study has investigated the sources and domains that gives meaning to adolescents’ lives from their point of view, presence of and search for meaning and differences between girls and boys in these components. In this regard 416, 12 to 18 years old adolescents (M: 15.94, Std: 1.32, 54.3 % females) have completed the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation and Meaning in Life questionnaires. Chi-square and independent t tests were used to analyze the data. The results show that among the sources of meaning regarding to The Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation respectively the “family” (91.3%), “social relations” (53.4%) and “occupation and education” (53%) are the areas that most frequently have been reported as a source of meaning by adolescents. Moreover, seven new categories of sources of meaning in life have been identified in this study of which “information technology” (15%) and “future” (12.3%) had the highest frequencies. Female and male participants differed in the frequency of mentioning some of these sources and also their satisfaction from these areas as well as the dimension of presence of meaning. These findings have been discussed in the context of developmental and meaning in life theories.
Monir Kalāntar-Qoreyshi; Ahmad Borjali; Abbās Zāmyād; Fariborz Dortāj
Volume 2, Issue 6 , February 2012, , Pages 65-88
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In this study we examine the effect of relaxation training on anxiety reduction and on working memory capacity (WMC). In an experimental study the students of a secondary school in Tehran were selected using random cluster sampling. Through an anxiety test based on the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale ...
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In this study we examine the effect of relaxation training on anxiety reduction and on working memory capacity (WMC). In an experimental study the students of a secondary school in Tehran were selected using random cluster sampling. Through an anxiety test based on the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (1970), 40 girl students were divided into two test and control groups by random assignment. In the pre-test, students responded to questionnaire of working memory capacity (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980). The tests were organized in group form. In the next stage of research, the test group received 12 one-hour session training (3 sessions per week), and were offered relaxation techniques, as well as deep breathing and muscle relaxation, while no training was provided for the control group. Upon completion of the sessions in the post-test stage, both test and control groups were tested again with Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and questionnaires of working memory capacity (Daneman & carpenter, 1980). The statistical methodology was based on multivariate analysis of covariance. The results of this study suggest that relaxation training increases the working memory capacity and its components, i.e. storage and processing, by way of decreasing anxiety. Therefore, relaxation training is a useful strategy for reduction of anxiety and promotion of working memory capacity
Sepideh Barghandan; Morteza Tarkhan; Nima Ghaemi Khomami
Volume 2, Issue 8 , February 2012, , Pages 140-165
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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 ...
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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.
