Background : Emotional intelligence as an ability to manage feelings and emotions plays an important role in individual’s life and his or her success. Defense mechanisms occurring unconsciously can influence the emotions and their management and therefore are likely to change the level of individual’s emotional intelligence. The aim of this article was to examine the relation between defense ...

Introduction: The high prevalence of emotional eating in obese women indicates the importance of the role of emotional eating in their weight gain. The aim of the present study is to explain the role of emotional eating in the lived experiences of young obese Iranian women. Methods: This study was performed by qualitative method with hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Participants in this ...

Difficulties of emotional regulation through factors related to family emotional environment are affected perceived stress levels. This study aims to provide a causal model to explain the relationships of family emotional variables (parenting styles and negative emotion expressiveness in the family) with perceived stress level were performed according to the role of mediator of difficulties in ...

Today, mothers of mentally retarded children have many emotional problems. Therefore, the aim of this study was the effectiveness of group therapy, schema-based therapy, emotional therapy on emotional anesthesia, and emotional simplification of mothers of mentally retarded children. This was a pre-test-post-test experimental study with a control group. The statistical population of the study wa...

Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the quality of life of the elderly with diabetes and its association with emotional intelligence. Method: This was a cross-sectional descriptive- correlational study, conducted on 85 older adults with diabetes who were referred to Diabetes Clinic of Shariati Hospital in Tehran. To assess quality of life Leipad Quality of Life in the elderly Ques...