Introduction: With the emerging of positive psychology, the attention of psychologists shifted from mental illness towards the predictors of mental health and its promotion strategies. This study presents a model to explain students' mental health based on goal orientation, hope and spiritual well-being. Methods: The study sample included 374 patients (150 females and 224 males) with an age r...

Introduction: Despite all the advances, cancer is still a deadly disease. An important solution in encountering, confronting, and overcoming this deadly disease is hope among the patients. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between social capital and hope in patients with cancer. Methods: Research method was survey, and the population was patients with cancer in Seyyed-o-...

The purpose of this study was to determine correlation of hope theory on precision of users’ information retrieval from databases of medical science. Research method was quasi experimental, and the population consisted of 45 final year medical students at medical Universities in Tehran. The data gathering instrument was the Schneider (1991) hope questionnaire that has 12 questions. Schneider qu...

The aim of the present research was to compare resilience, self-efficacy, hope and optimism between substance-dependent individuals and normal subjects. In this research, a sample of 160 individuals (80 substance-dependent subjects reffering to addiction treatment centers in Shahrood and 80 normal subjects) were selected using convenient sampling according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. P...

Background & Aim: Despite the growing statistics of people with HIV-positive in Iran, little attention has been paid to the poor quality of their life and the adverse psychological status of these patients. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of group Hope Therapy on the improvement of Dysfunctional Attitudes and the increase of hope in HIV positive patients. Methods: the researc...