فصلنامه پژوهش در سلامت روانشناختی
سال دوازدهم شماره 3 (پاییز 1397)

Culture influence psychological phenomena in different ways. In this article, we introduce a framework for studying relationship between culture and psychological phenomena and we presented findings from some cross-cultural studies in this framework. It seems the definition and classification of personality traits, the experience of stress and mental health moderated by culture. The associations between positive and negative affects and mental health was different among Iranian and Swedish culture. In Iranian culture, both kind of affects was associated with mental health, whereas in Swedish culture, only positive affect was associated with mental health. Iranian students more used primary process against stress, whereas Swedish students more used secondary process. In addition, academic stress among Iranian students was less than Swedish students. It could conclude that there were some similarities and differences between Iranian and Swedish culture in personality traits, experience of anxiety, and coping with stress. Therefore, any policy making in global level and designing behavioral change strategies in national level should be influenced by these cultural similarities and differences

Migraine headache is one of the most common forms of pain and due to its frequency, it is one of the most important types of headache.The purpose of this study was to identify the precedents and consequences of migraine headaches in a non-clinical population. we selected a set of 310 students as our samples by the use of multi-stage stratified random sampling. We collected Data using questionnaires Migraine Screen, Depression Anxiety Stress, State-Trait Anger Expression, Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire , Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, Fatigue severity scale and Quality of life scale. The results showed that all the coefficients of direct paths between the research variables were statistically significant. On the other hand, based on the results of the study, the indirect relation of anger, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety with the quality of life, depression, and fatigue were significant through migraine mediation. Also, the relationship between obsessive beliefs, and migraine was mediated by obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to the findings of this study, in addition to physiological factors, psychological factors may be the initiators, extenders, and exacerbations of migraine headaches, and consequently, migraine can have mental implication and simultaneous improvement in psychological factors, prevents migraine attacks and their implications.

The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of anger rumination on the relationship between anger and pain intensity in chronical musculoskeletal pain patients. For this purpose, a sample of 109 chronic musculoskeletal pain patients were selected by convenience sampling method from the hospitals and clinics in shiraz. For collecting data, multidimensional pain questionnaire, multidimensional anger inventory and anger rumination scale were used. The present study is descriptive-correlation and analysis of data was carried using simple correlation coefficient and regression analysis by Baron and Kenny (1986), using SPSS-21 software.. Finding showed that anger and all of it’s dimensions except Anger-eliciting situations and Anger-out predicted pain intensity. anger and all of it’s dimensions predicted anger rumination. . In addition, results showed that anger rumination completely mediated the relationship between anger and pain intensity. Furthermore, the mediator role of anger rumination was confirmed only for internal dimensions that had a significant relationship with the pain severity, such as anger arousal, hostile outlook and anger-in. However, this mediator role of anger was not confirmed for the dimensions with external nature, and there wasn’t any significant correlations between pain severity and these dimensions, such as anger-eliciting situations and anger out. in general, anger rumination exacerbates and continues the negative effects of anger on the pain severity in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

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The loss reaction includes variety of the responses such as the body, the emotional, the existential and the cognitive reactions. Also, the strength of these responses can vary from the weak transitory emotional reactions to the lifelong strong ones, which can change the life story of the individuals. In this study, the qualitative data gathering on focus groups, the semi-structured interview about the loss experiences, and the life story interview by Mc Adams approach was applied on 21 participants. The phenomenological analysis of the manuscripts of the interviews was used to investigate the effective parameters on the styles of individual’s responses to the loss. Results show that these parameters in the context of the incident are the time and the cultural and the social background of the loss experience. Also, parameters of the nature of the loss includes its type, the obligatory versus the optional loss, and the predictable versus unpredictable loss. Finally, the experimenter characteristics such as the life experiences, the personality, and the consciousness and knowledge level can be considered as an effective parameter on the loss reaction. Results shows the crucial effect of living world which the loss happens as an incident in it and the living world of the individual who experiences the loss. Finally, suggestions were made at the end for the wider study of the loss experience among the different cultures and clans.

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