Journal of Assessment and Research in Applied Counseling
Volume:3 Issue: 4, 2021

Stress of care effect physical, psychological and affect in Caregivers. The experience of positive and negative affect relates to Caregivers Self-Compassion. Therefore, present study aimed to predict positive and negative affect based on Self-Compassion with the mediating role of Personality Types A and B in Alzheimerchr('39')s Caregivers.  

Method was descriptive- correlation. participants were Alzheimerchr('39')s primary Caregivers in 2018 in Tehran. 202 participants were selected by available sampling and completed the questionnaires of Neff’s Self-Compassion (2003), Watson, Clark, Tellegen’s positive and negative affect (1988) and Rathus, s Personality Types (1996). Data were analyzed by Pearson’s correlation and path analysis.  

The results indicated that Self-Compassion positively correlate positive affect and negatively correlate negative affect (P<0.01). The results of path analysis showed that Personality Types A and B significantly mediate on the prediction of Positive and Negative Affect based on Self-Compassion in Alzheimerchr('39')s Caregivers (P<0.01).

In order to decrease negative affect and improve positive affect in Alzheimerchr('39')s Caregivers, may be useful, Alzheimer Association pay attention to Self-Compassion of nurses and   Alzheimerchr('39')s Caregivers and was moderated non efficient and incompatible Personality Types though the interventions of counselling and training.

The tendency to flourish and psychological flexibility are very important variables for depressed women. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and positive psychotherapy on tendency to flourish and psychological flexibility in depressed women.

The research method is quasi-experimental with three groups in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up. The statistical population of the study included depressed women in Isfahan in autumn and winter of 2019 and 2020. From the statistical population, 60 women were selected through purposive sampling and then randomly assigned to two experimental groups (20 people in each group) and control group (20 people). Tendency to Flourish Questionnaire and Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire were used to measure the dependent variable. Acceptance and commitment treatment and positive psychotherapy group were treated in 12 and 13 sessions respectively, and the control group did not receive any treatment. Data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test by SPSS version 26.

The results showed that in positive emotions, fascination, meaning, relationships, achievement and psychological flexibility, there was a significant difference between acceptance and commitment therapy and positivist psychotherapy with the control group (P<0.01). Also, they were more effectiveness in positive emotions and fascination for positive psychotherapy and more effectiveness in psychological flexibility for accepting and committing therapy (P<0.05).

Considering the difference in the effectiveness of positivist psychotherapy and acceptance and commitment therapy on increasing flourishing and psychological flexibility respectively, pay attention to this difference in the effectiveness of the two therapies on the variables related to their theoretical foundations, in psychological treatment centers for depressed women need to be considered.

A part from the perception of the present situation, one’s life includes the future, the present and the past. A time perspective is the considered as a general view of the people about the past, present and future at given time. The Temporal Focus Scale is a scale that measures the amount of the attention that each individual specifically devote to understanding past, present and future time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric measures of Temporal focusing scale.

This research was a descriptive study standardization. For this purpose, 250 Students were selected randomly from Ardakan University students’. They respond to Temporal Focus scale and Zimbardo Time Perspective Questionnaire as peer form. Finally, the collected data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis, Pearson Correlation and Cronbache, alpha.

The results of the data analysis showed that the person version of the Temporal Focus in the Iranian sample has the same factor structure as the original version of the article. Cotenant validity of the test was approved, structural validity was verified using confirmatory factor analysis method .results showed that all factor had good fit.

In sum, the results of the study confirm the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Temporal focus scale and suggested that it can easily be used clinical and research setting.

Emotional empathy and poor social skills are among the problems that depressed gifted schoolgirls suffer from. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of positive mindset training on social skills and emotional and cognitive empathy of gifted female students with nonclinical depression.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. In order to conduct research among 30 high school intelligent female students in Shahroud in 1398, 30 students were purposefully selected based on entry and exit criteria and randomly divided into two experimental groups (15 people) and control group (15 people). ) Were assigned. A social skills questionnaire and an empathy questionnaire were used to assess the research variables in the pre-test and post-test stages. The positive mindset group was treated for twelve sessions and the control group did not receive any treatment. Data were analyzed by univariate and multivariate analysis of Manqua covariance.

The results showed that between positive mindset intervention with control group in appropriate social skills, antisocial behaviors, aggression and impulsive behaviors, hegemony, high self-confidence and peer relationship and emotional and cognitive empathy in post-test post-control Pre-test There is a significant difference. (05/0 = P).

The results indicate that positive mindfulness intervention is an effective treatment in improving social skills and emotional and cognitive empathy of depressed female students.

Couples need to learn new ways of communicating with each other and change the basic assumptions that bind them and their spouse together. When couples fail to do this, intimacy and mutual commitment are broken and marital boredom develops. At this time, the basis of the couple's intimacy must be reformed. Improving intimacy requires examining intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics; Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of solution-oriented couple therapy on marital conflict and marital boredom of couples.

The present study was quasi-experimental with experimental and control groups and pre-test design, post-test with one month follow-up. The statistical population in the present study included couples who had referred to the counseling center of the mobile group in Region 2 of Tehran due to conflicts and communication problems between April and May 2017. After screening with the Marital Conflict and Marital Boredom Scale and the initial survey (interview), 20 couples were randomly selected as a research sample, 10 couples (couple) in the experimental group and 10 couples (couple) in the control group. Couples in the experimental group received McDonald's solution-centered couple therapy intervention (2007) for eight 90-minute sessions as a group, and couples in the control group were placed on a waiting list. Both groups answered the marital conflict and marital boredom questionnaires in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Descriptive statistics and repeated measures analysis of variance were used to analyze the obtained data.

The results showed that solution-oriented couple therapy significantly reduced the rate of marital conflict (F = 10.68, p = 0.002) and marital boredom (F = 13.58, p = 0.001) and the results It was also stable in the follow-up phase.

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that couple therapy reduces the axis of marital conflict and marital boredom in couples.

The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the quality components of marital relationship in divorced couples and normal couples in Qazvin. The method of this research was descriptive causal-comparative. The statistical population of the present study included all couples seeking divorce who had referred to counseling centers in Qazvin in the summer of 1399. The sampling method of this study was simple random, so that from all couples referred to Qazvin counseling centers, 30 couples (husband and wife) were selected and compared with 30 normal couples who did not apply for divorce. It should be noted that both groups were matched in terms of characteristics such as age, gender and level of education. The instrument used in this study was the Perceived Marital Relationship Quality Questionnaire (PRQC). The data of this study were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The results of the present study showed that there is a significant difference between couples seeking divorce and normal couples in terms of all components of marital relationship quality ((= 05 0.05). Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that the components of the quality of the marital relationship are a strong predictor of divorce and its application (> = 0.05).