resilience as a psychological emotional mechanism is employed by the individuals when they are in stressful irritating situations to be able to resume their previous productive mental activities. it is a vital coping activity when students go through upsetting events, psychological breakdowns, academic failures, suffocating educational atmospheres, and undemocratic teaching techniques. the esse...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of social interest fostering program on psychological basic needs satisfaction in students with oppositional defiant disorder (odd). this experimental study had been done by pre-test and post-test method, with control group. the sample population included students with odd who visited tehran service clinics in the first half of the year 2015....

BACKGROUND Little is known of the importance of social support in the associations between psychological distress and somatic health problems and socio-economic factors among older adults living at home. The objectives of the present study were to investigate the associations of social support, somatic health problems and socio-economic factors with psychological distress. We also examined chan...

after reza khan took power and established a powerful central government, the way was paved for planning reforms in iran. among these reforms was the improvement of the status of women, which tried to make iran similar to the west. this goal accounts for the removal of hijab and changing the appearance of the people. in the present study, through library research, the authors investigated how p...

objective: substance abuse is a socio-psychological disorder. the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy with 12-steps narcotics anonymous on psychological well-being of opiate dependent individuals in addiction treatment centers in shiraz, iran. method: this was a randomized controlled trial. data were collected at entry into the study and at po...

failures and contradictions of life cause confusion and disrupt personality structure of ego. under such conditions, human psychological defense system is activated to overcome anxiety which threats the ego and to recover one's calmness. seyyed qotb and shahriar have also infected by anxiety and unfavorable excitements in their lives, because of individual, social, political,…, factors. si...

asd or autism spectrum diorders are the most strange psychological disorders in which children can’t show their emotions, fears and anxiety as soon as the normal children. they suffer from the social interactions , the stereotypic behaviors and verbal skills impairments and these problems can lead to withdrawal and other behavioral problems. among the psychological strategies, art therapy is on...

We consider 2 questions in this commentary. One is the extent to which the understanding of aging can be advanced by the application of social psychological theories. The second is the extent to which social-psychological theories can be enriched by considering issues in aging. We argue that the focus on situational causes ofbehavior in social psychological theories provides a vital balance to ...