Asghar Jafari; Ali Moshtaghi
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Marriage affects the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral health of young couples. Interpersonal trust and cognitive flexibility play a role in family functioning. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of imago therapy in increasing interpersonal trust and cognitive flexibility ...
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Marriage affects the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral health of young couples. Interpersonal trust and cognitive flexibility play a role in family functioning. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of imago therapy in increasing interpersonal trust and cognitive flexibility in young couples. A quasi-experimental design was used. The statistical population included young couples who referred to Salam Counseling and Psychology Center in Esfahan in 2022. Through purposive sampling method, 16 couples who met the inclusion criteria were selected; they were randomly assigned to the two groups of imago therapy and control (n1=n2=8). Research instruments were Rempel and Holmes’s (2007) Interpersonal Relationship Trust questionnaire and Dennis and Vanderwal’s (2010) Cognitive Flexibility questionnaire, which were administered to the two groups in three stages. In addition, Muro et al.’s (2016) Imago Therapy program was implemented in the experimental group during ten weekly 60-minute sessions. Data were analyzed using mixed model repeated measures ANOVA. Findings showed that imago therapy could increase interpersonal trust and cognitive flexibility in young couples and this effect was sustained in the follow-up phase (P < 0.001). Therefore, it could be concluded that imago therapy was effective in increasing interpersonal trust and cognitive flexibility in young couples. Accordingly, it is suggested that this treatment package be used for the recovery of interpersonal trust and cognitive flexibility of couples.
Farhad Khoemaei; Faramarz Kashkoli; Seyed Mehdi Poorseyed
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The concept of emotional security, based on the theories of Davies and Cummings (1994) and Cummings and Davies (1996), refers to a state in which children maintain a secure, positive, and consistent perception of family relationships despite encountering stressful situations. This study aimed to assess ...
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The concept of emotional security, based on the theories of Davies and Cummings (1994) and Cummings and Davies (1996), refers to a state in which children maintain a secure, positive, and consistent perception of family relationships despite encountering stressful situations. This study aimed to assess the Emotional Security scale (Forman & Davies, 2005) for high school students, focusing on its validity, reliability, and factor structure. The research involved 503 high school students in Bushehr. They were selected using a multi-stage cluster random sampling method. To verify the validity of the Emotional Security scale in the family system, construct validity (confirmatory factor analysis) was used. In addition, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and structural reliability were used in SPSS and AMOS software to verify reliability. The model’s fit was confirmed by goodness indices (X2/df = 2.99, GFI = 0.96, AGFI = 0.90, CFI = 0.92, NFI = 0.95, PCFI = 0.70, .RMSEA = 0.60, and PCIOSE = 0.24). The research results confirmed the presence of three factors, including security, mental preoccupation, and withdrawal in the Emotional Security scale within the family system. The Cronbach’s alpha indexes for security components (0.81), mental preoccupation (0.75), and withdrawal (0.74) were found to be satisfactory. Consequently, it could be concluded that the Emotional Security scale within the family system is a reliable and useful instrument for assessing the emotional security of Iranian students in psychological studies, and can be applied in research about emotional security within the family system.
ali khodaei; Omid Shokri
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The undeniable necessity of understanding parental behaviors from a contextual perspective has encouraged various researchers to study the functional characteristics of parenting practices depending on the contexts such as academic learning, interaction with peers, and the daily life of children and ...
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The undeniable necessity of understanding parental behaviors from a contextual perspective has encouraged various researchers to study the functional characteristics of parenting practices depending on the contexts such as academic learning, interaction with peers, and the daily life of children and adolescents. Therefore, this research study was conducted to analyze the factorial validity and psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Academic Parenting Scale. In this descriptive survey, 350 mothers were selected through accessible sampling method. They filled out the Academic Parenting Scale (Wang et al., 2022), Parenting Wisdom Scale (Boumpouli et al., 2022), and the Strength-based Parenting Scale (Jach et al., 2018). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Academic Parenting Scale had good factorial validity with a four-factor structure consisting of parental warmth, parenting focused on behavioral control, parenting focused on psychological control, and parental support. Indices of 2χ, 2χ/df, CFI, GFI, AGFI, and RMSEA were equal to 904.66, 1.85, 0.93, 0.95, 0.93, and 0.05, respectively. In addition, the results concerning the correlation between the dimensions of academic parenting with strength-based parenting and different facets of parental wisdom supported the convergent validity of the Persian version of the Academic Parenting Scale. Moreover, the internal consistency coefficients of academic parenting subscales, including warmth, behavioral control, psychological control, and independence-encouraging parenting, were equal to 0.80, 0.79, 0.84, and 0.79, respectively. In sum, while defending the conceptual positions derived from the self-determination theory in the development of a contextual approach to parenting behaviors and expanding the frontier of theoretical knowledge in the field of emerging and contextual studies of educational parenting, this research study provided compelling evidence in preliminary support of the technical characteristics of validity and reliability of the Persian version of Academic Parenting Scale.
marzieh karimi; sadegh nasri; Fatemeh Ghaemi
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Considering the specific characteristics of autism spectrum disorder, parents and especially mothers are under a lot of pressure and it is important to identify factors that help reduce this pressure. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the structural relationships of fathers' involvement ...
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Considering the specific characteristics of autism spectrum disorder, parents and especially mothers are under a lot of pressure and it is important to identify factors that help reduce this pressure. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the structural relationships of fathers' involvement and mothers' parenting stress with the mediating role of family functioning, resilience and social support in mothers of autistic children. Research method has been descriptive-correlation type and structural equation model was used. From among the autism schools in Tehran, 4 schools were randomly selected and 276 volunteer mothers participated in the research and were asked to use the Phetrusuwan & Miles's Parenting Stress Scale: Autism (2009), Olson et al. 's Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (1985), Conner and Davidson's Resilience Scale (2003), Zimmet et al.'s Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (1988), and Fathers' Involvement Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Smart PLS 3.2 software. The results indicated that fathers' participation and resilience have a direct negative effect on mothers' parenting stress. In addition, fathers' participation has an indirect effect on mothers' parenting stress through the mediation of family functioning (p < 0.05). a significant relationship was also observed between family functioning and mothers' resilience. According to the obtained results, it seems that fathers' participation as an external factor and resilience as an internal factor play a role in predicting parenting stress (p < 0.05). Also, the adaptive functioning of the family can strengthen the role of fathers' participation in reducing mothers' stress. The results can be used in predicting parenting stress of mothers of autistic children.
