Seyyed Abolghasem Mehri Nejad
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Shyness is significant trait that influences wildly internal and external disorders in adolescents. This study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in the treatment of shyness and assertiveness failure puberty girls. The research method was quasi-experimental design with ...
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Shyness is significant trait that influences wildly internal and external disorders in adolescents. This study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in the treatment of shyness and assertiveness failure puberty girls. The research method was quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test with two experimental and control groups. The population of the study is all female high school students (school year 95-94) (7th and 8th grades) that studied in Regions 7 and 3 in Tehran. 4 schools were selected using simple random sampling. After a test run shyness and assertiveness in the 4 schools, 30 people who agreed to receive 10 sessions of treatment were selected in available and randomly assigned to two experimental and control group. For experimental groups 10 one-hour sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was performed. Then both groups were post analysis of covariance was used to analyze the test data. The findings showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy have had significant effect to reduce shyness and increase assertiveness (P <0/001). According to the findings of this study, cognitive therapy based on mindfulness as an effective treatment to reduce Shyness and increase the skills of assertiveness.
Fahimeh Pirsaghi; Ali Mohammad Nazari; Mehrdad Hajihassani; Hassan Nad-Alipour
Volume 4, Issue 16 , December 2014, , Pages 19-34
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The present study aims to study the effectiveness of selfdifferentiation therapy on assertiveness of female students of AllamehTabataba’i University. The research employed ...
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The present study aims to study the effectiveness of selfdifferentiation therapy on assertiveness of female students of AllamehTabataba’i University. The research employed a semi-experimentaldesign with pre-test and post-test. Using convenience samplingmethod, 20 subjects were selected from among first-yearundergraduate female students of the Faculty of Psychology andEducational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University. The samplepopulated was randomly assigned into two groups, namely experimentand control groups, each consisting of 10 people. The experimentgroup received 8 sessions of self-differentiation therapy. The controlgroup received no intervention. The data was analyzed usingCovariance analysis. The results showed that self-differentiationtherapy was effective on improvement of assertiveness (P<0.01).Generally, it can be concluded that self-differentiation therapy helpedto increase the level of assertiveness of the participants.
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.
