Psychology
azam abdali; mohsen golmohammadin; alireza rashidi
Volume 25, Issue 4 , September and October 2018, , Pages 573-580
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Background Among the problems of students who have an unpleasant effect on their academic performance is the test anxiety and lack of academic buoyancy. The purpose of present study was investigation the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on test anxiety and academic buoyancy of female ...
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Background Among the problems of students who have an unpleasant effect on their academic performance is the test anxiety and lack of academic buoyancy. The purpose of present study was investigation the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on test anxiety and academic buoyancy of female students. Material & Methods The research type was semi experimental with design with pre-test and follow-up design 30 female students were chosen randomly and assigned into tow control and experimental. Experimental group received 8 sessions Intervention based on acceptance and commitment 2 times weekly. Instrument was Sarason test anxiety (1984) and academic buoyancy Hosin chari (2012) questionnaire. The multivariate analysis of covariance was used to data analysis. Results. Findings showed that effect size in test anxiety variable was (post-test=.93, follow-up =.83) and in academic buoyancy was (posttest =.64, follow-up =.61) (p≥.001). Conclusion in according to results There is significant difference in test anxiety and academic buoyancy between experimental and control groups in post-test and follow-up stage. In whole The results indicated the role and importance of acceptance and commitment in promoting test anxiety and academic buoyancy in students.
Mokhtar Arefi; Rohollah Rahimi; Mohsen Gol Mohammadian
Volume 23, Issue 1 , May and June 2016, , Pages 122-132
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Background and Objective: Heart disease, a disorder psycho-physiological risk factors in addition to physical, psychological factors such as personality traits and coping strategies in the incidence and severity it is very important. The purpose of this study was to investigate the personality traits ...
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Background and Objective: Heart disease, a disorder psycho-physiological risk factors in addition to physical, psychological factors such as personality traits and coping strategies in the incidence and severity it is very important. The purpose of this study was to investigate the personality traits and Coping Styles in healthy men and women compared to those with heart disease outpatient. Materials & Methods: The methodology of the study is causal-comparative research. The study population consisted of all heart disease outpatients and their relatives in May 2015 to the hospital Madani had come out of them, 50 patients with heart disease outpatients (26 males and 24 females) 50 healthy subjects (28 males and 22 females) were matched with healthy controls. The Eysenck Personality questionnaires (EPQ-R) and coping styles of Folkman and Lazarus (WCQ) study was conducted on groups. To analyze the data, descriptive, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and software version 18 (SPSS18) was used. significant level α= 0/01 were considered as well. Findings: The results showed that people with heart diseases of neuroticism and psychopathic sense of difference with normal group (P<0/001). The emotion-focused coping styles are different between the two groups problem-focused coping styles between them but no difference was found. About the role of gender also showed that extraversion and emotional and problem focused coping styles between men and women patients there was a significant difference (P<0/001). Discussion & Conclusion: The results showed that people with heart disease outpatient those anxious, fearful, violent, and fast developing anxiety, depression and aggression are higher than in healthy individuals deal with problems Styles emotion-oriented coping pressure.