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The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and meaning and purpose therapy in promoting post-traumatic growth and psychosocial adjustment in breast cancer patients. The current research is a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all breast cancer patients in the Bukan Cancer Patients' Association in 2019, 45 of whom were purposive and were randomly assigned to three groups of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness, therapy based on meaning and purpose, and the control group. In this research, the 46-question Adjustment to Illness Scale–Self-Report (PAIS-SR)-Derogatis (1986) and the post-traumatic growth questionnaire by. Tedeschi & Calhoun (1996) were used. The experimental groups underwent treatment based on meaning and purpose and cognitive therapy based on group mindfulness for 8 weeks and one 60-minute session each week. To analyze the data, the statistical method of multivariate covariance analysis was used. The findings showed that there is a significant difference between the mean of the post-test in the two groups of the test and the test in the variable of psycho-social adaptation and post-traumatic growth (P ≥ 0.01), as evidence of the pre-test effect. In other words, cognitive therapy based on mindfulness was more effective than treatment based on meaning and goal in the variable of psychosocial adjustment, and therapy based on meaning and goal was more effective in the variable of post-traumatic growth than cognitive therapy based on mindfulness.

Cancer is one of the diseases that requires complex and multidisciplinary treatment. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of positive thinking training and cognitive therapy based on mindfulness in improving morale and psychosocial adaptation in breast cancer patients.
The current research was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design. The statistical population of this research included all breast cancer patients in the Bukan Cancer Patients Association, 45 people were selected and randomly replaced in three groups: positive thinking training, cognitive therapy based on mindfulness, and the control group. The experimental groups were trained in positive thinking and cognitive therapy based on group mindfulness for 8 weeks and one 60-minute session every week.
Both treatments had a significant effect on the variables of demoralization and psycho-social adjustment in breast cancer patients. Also, the study showed that positive thinking training treatment was more effective than cognitive therapy based on mindfulness in the variable of demoralization. Also, the results showed that cognitive therapy based on mindfulness was more effective than positive thinkin training in the variable of psychosocial adjustment.
Therefore, to help breast cancer patients, psychological treatments can have positive effects so that by overcoming the existential crisis, they adopt a new cognitive and behavioral system and get out of their negative habits and thought patterns and live consciously and meaningfully. To discover the hidden meaning in the heart of suffering caused by cancer.

The present study investigates the role of the temperament and character traits, basic psychological needs and cognitive flexibility in psychological hardiness of autistic children's mothers in Ahvaz city. The method was descriptive-correctional. The statistical population were included of all mothers of children with autistic dysfunction in Ahvaz. A sample of 130 mothers were selected. The instruments were Ahwaz Hardiness Inventory, Temperament and Character Inventory, and basic psychological needs scale and Cognitive Flexibility Inventory. Data were analyzed by multiple regression and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that there is significant and negative relation between harm avoidance and reward-dependence on hardiness and positive and significant relationship between other dimensions of temperament and character, basic psychological needs and psychological flexibility with psychological hardiness. The results showed that the temperament and character, novelty-seeking and self-transcendence predicted hardiness. Among the subscales, basic psychological needs predicted hardiness. From the cognitive flexibility components, the perception of the alternative solutions had the ability to predict firmness. Therefore, improving the communication, novelty-seeking and self-transcendence, competency and perception of the alternative solutions may enhance the psychological hardiness of mothers of children with autism and it may improve their welfare.

The purpose of the present study was to compare self-compassion, humor, and alexithymia between mothers of children with atherosclerosis and mothers of normal children in Ahvaz city.

A causal-comparative study was conducted on the statistical population of all mothers of healthy children and all mothers with children with autism referring to the centers for the organization, treatment, and rehabilitation of stomach nerves in Ahvaz city during 2016-2017. The research sample was selected through convenience sampling method. Two groups of mothers with autistic children (n= 60) and normal mothers (n= 60) were selected. The instruments used were a Self-Compassion Inventory (SCS), Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), and Toronto Emotional Scale (TAS-20). ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses and the significance level was set at p≤0.05.

The results showed that there is a significant difference between self-compassion and emotional negligence of mothers with autistic children and those with healthy children, but there was no difference between the two groups regarding humor.

The findings can be important for psychological interventions for mothers of autistic children.

Focusing on the predictors of loneliness in the elderly is a prerequisite for successful improvement of loneliness. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of time perspective and experience of pain in predicting loneliness. It was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population consisted of all elderly people over 60 years old in Kermanshah in 2019. 200 elderly members of the Retirement Association were selected through convenience sampling. Zimbardo Time Scale Log (ZTPI), McGill's Revised Inventory (SF-MPQ), and Russell's Loneliness Inventory (UCLA) were used to collect information. The data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Findings indicated a negative and inverse relationship between retrospective-positive, temperamental-pleasure-seeker and the future with loneliness, and there was a positive and direct relationship between the retrospective-negative, experimental-predictive variables and loneliness (P<0/01). The results of the stepwise regression analysis showed that the components of the outlook of retrospective-negative and temperamental-predictive were the most powerful variables for predicting loneliness. Also, emotional pain could predict elderly loneliness. These findings revealed influential concepts in providing care for the elderly and it could be taken in plans and programs to decreases elderly loneliness and increase their well-being.

Emotion cognitive regulation strategies are psychological components that play an important role in anxiety disorders. The purpose of this research was to predict death anxiety on the basis of emotion cognitive regulation strategies in students. In this descriptive correlational study، 130 (Male=66، Female=64) undergraduate students from the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili were selected using multistage cluster sampling; and filled the questionnaires of emotion cognitive regulation strategies and death anxiety. The data study from the sample was analyzed by the statistical methods of correlation and stepwise regression. Results revealed that between emotion cognitive regulation strategies and death anxiety signification correlated. Of between emotion cognitive regulation strategies; positive refocus on planning، catastrophizing، reappraisal، acceptance and rumination were the best predictors of the death anxiety in students (Adj. R2=0/26). The findings indicated that emotion cognitive regulation strategies are important psychological components in prediction of death anxiety.