پژوهشنامه سبک زندگی
سال هشتم شماره 14 (پیاپی 15، پاییز و زمستان 1401)

The present study is aimed at examining how effective group therapy with the monotheist integrated approach is compared to emotion-focused therapy upon augmentation of the positive feelings of married women towards their mates. The research design was semi-experimental, with pre-tests and post-tests and a 3-month follow-up. The sample comprised 45 married women who came for therapeutic attention to Peyvand Family Counseling Center affiliated with Parent-Teacher Association in Naqadeh, Iran. They were selected through the convenience sampling technique and assigned randomly to three 15-member groups of monotheist integrated therapy, emotion-focused therapy, and a control group. Then the members of the first two groups (experimental groups) attended the group therapy sessions. The measuring instrument was the Positive Feelings Questionnaire (PFQ) administered three times: before and after the sessions and three months after the end of the intervention. Two-way variance analysis showed that the positive feelings of members of both groups towards their husbands have increased significantly (p > 0.01). Therefore, it could be claimed that the monotheist integrated approach can at least as much boost married women’s positive feelings towards their husbands as emotion-focused therapy can.

Of couples’ problems are marital conflicts that, if not settled, can make the way for divorce. With this issue in mind, the present study aims to examine the mediatory role of self-control and meaning of life in the relationship between Islamic lifestyle and marital conflicts. As a correlational descriptive research, the study was conducted using the structural equation modeling. The statistical population consisted of every married individual inhabiting the city of Behshahr, Iran, of whom a total of 225 were selected using the convenience sampling technique. After Islamic Lifestyle, Marital Conflict, Self-Control and Meaning of Life questionnaires were administered for collection of data, 205 questionnaires were collected. SPSS and AMOS were used to examine goodness of fit, and bootstrapping in Macro (Preacher and Hayes 2008) to examine the role of mediator variables. The results showed that the structural model of the research enjoys a desirable goodness of fit and all exogenous and mediator variables can account for 49 percent (so, nearly 50 percent) of marital conflicts. Furthermore, self-control and meaning of life play a mediatory role in the relationship between Islamic lifestyle and marital conflict. Therefore, Islamic lifestyle, self-control and meaning of life are among the factors in preventing divorce and reducing divorce rates.

The present study was conducted with the aim of examining focal correlation between Islamic lifestyle and patience in the students of the Payam-e Nur University, Islamshahr, Iran. It was a descriptive correlational research, where a total of 316 students were selected through a simple random sampling technique. The data were collected through Kaviani lifestyle questionnaire and Khormayi patience questionnaire, and analyzed through Pierson correlation coefficient and focal correlation, using SPSS.26. The findings showed that there is a significant positive correlation between Islamic lifestyle and patience. The common variance between Islamic lifestyle and patience was 15 percent. Furthermore, in the function ‘Islamic lifestyle’ the sub-component ‘worshipping and beliefs’ had the greatest weight or importance in the focal correlation. Therefore, it seems that Islamic lifestyle can have a relatively constant impact on youths’ patience and endurance.

Emotion regulation is defined as a process through which individuals can identify, assess, and affect the nature, direction, and expression of emotions. Mentally impaired individuals experience some difficulties in emotion regulation. With this issue in mind, the present research aimed at conducting a content analysis of the book Thought and Lifestyle in secondary schools based on the components of emotion regulation. The statistical population of this descriptive study was the three volumes of the above mentioned book for the students of seventh, eighth, and ninth degrees in secondary schools in the school year 2021-2022. The research instrument was a checklist provided on the basis of Gross’s process model of emotion regulation. To analyze the data, Shannon’s entropy method was used. The results showed that the component related to the situation modification was most frequent (with 34 occurrences) and attentional deployment was the least frequent (with 7 occurrences). The highest impact factor among components of emotion regulation belonged to situation modification (0.36), and the lowest to attentional deployment (0.06). Accordingly, it could be concluded that by and large emotion regulation has been relatively neglected in the book Thought and Lifestyle in vocational secondary schools.

With wave after wave of students entering universities in a few past decades, we have been witnessing the advent of a unique lifestyle revolving around the entity of studentship, of whose aspects the present study has focused on hijab. The topic assumes significance given the students’ conspicuous role in social change and problematization of hijab in the life-world of Iranian society. The statistical population of the study consists of Iranian students, and a sample of 384 individuals has been selected. The data collection instrument is a researcher-made questionnaire for measuring hijab among students both quantitatively and qualitatively. In this study, data have been processed and analyzed through SPSS. The declining trend of adherence to hijab, personalization, and neutral semantics of hijab, or sometimes, semantics of hijab that shows a positive attitude towards lax hijab, alongside the amplification of non-religious and secular attitudes towards hijab are the major changes extracted from the present study. Aligned with such changes, some strategies have been offered in the areas of policy-making, family, education centers, and the economy of hijab.

The present study aims to design a model for life-work balance through identification of its aspects and components with an Islamic-Iranian approach to lifestyle. In terms of its aim, it is an applied, mixed exploratory research. In the qualitative phase, the technique of thematic analysis was used and in the quantitative phase structural equation modeling was utilized to validate the model. In the qualitative phase, a total of 15 individuals were selected through purposive sampling and given a semi-structured interview, and in the qualitative phase out of 152 managers and experts in the Saypa Company were surveyed through a questionnaire. The research findings showed the components of the model for work-life balance in its individual, domestic, and occupational aspects with 30 indexes and components. The results of the quantitative analysis confirmed the significance of the relationship between the aspects, components, and indexes presented by the research model. Identification of individual, occupational, and domestic aspects of the life-work balance helps the Saypa Company’s managers enahance life-work balance through knowing the indexes, so that the ground is laid for optimization of lifestyle. The research results can also be helpful for staff in improving the balance between life and work with an Islamic-Iranian approach to lifestyle, and prepare a fertile ground for further research.