abbas amanollahi

Marital adjustment has a positive effect on the physical and mental health of family members. The purpose of this study was to explain the process of marital adjustment in Iranian women.

This research is based on qualitative data analysis using the grounded theory method. Theoretical and purposeful sampling was used for data collection. Sampling continued until theoretical saturation. A total of 15 women from Ahvaz participated in the semi-structured interview. Interviews were analyzed using the Strauss and Corbin comparative method.

By open coding, 17 primary codes, and axial coding, 9 major themes, related to marital adjustment were obtained. Marital adjustment: An incentive to maintain marital life were extracted as the central category influenced by contextual, causal, and confounding conditions. Contextual conditions include emotional bonding with parents and spouse. Causal conditions are an emphasis on self and relationship with another and how to express self in the relationship. Interfering conditions include a relationship with the main family, spouse, and social comparison. Strategies include defense mechanisms and empathy. The consequences of marital adjustment were also the sense of security and comfort.

Marital adjustment can be considered in curing marital maladjustment and conflicts and help therapists to have a better understanding of marital dynamics.

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of mother-daughter relationship in relation between familism and self-derogation, educational motivation, and self-esteem among first and second high school students in Masjed-Soleiman. The statistical population of this study was first and second high school students in Masjed Soleiman, 250 of them were selected by multi-stage sampling technique. Measures used in this study were Attitudinal Familism Scale, Academic Motivation Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Questionnaire and Parent-Child Relationship Survey. Structural Equation Modeling was used to analyze the data. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was a positive significant correlation between familism and educational motivation, self-esteem, and mother-daughter relationship and negative significant correlation between familism and self-assimilation. After eliminating two irrelevant paths, the final model showed good fitness. The results of path analysis showed that familism through mother-daughter relationship had direct and indirect effect on academic motivation. In addition, the results showed that familism through mother-daughter relationship had indirect effect on self-derogation and self-esteem. Living with familism values and putting the family before the individual may develops a sense of belonging. Familism values include building close relationships with extended family members, showing love and affection, seeking advice from family members in times of distress, having the responsibility, and thinking about the family when making important decisions can facilitate quality of family interactions, specially relationship between mother and girl. This process may be the basis of mental health and other successes in students.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of child-parent relationship therapy on parental- acceptance and decreasing of disruptive behavior in primary school children. This study was an experimental research design was pretest-posttest with control group. the statical population consisted of all mothers who have primary school girl children. The sample comprised 30 mothers were selected and were assigned in two group (excremental and control) randomly. For experimental group was executed at ten session of a CPRT program. Instruments for data collection were Porter Parental Acceptance Scale and Eyberg child behavior Inventory. The results of multivariate covariance showed that there were significant difference in parental acceptance and of disruptive Behavior between pre-test and post-test in experimental group (p<0/05). Therefore, attention to the efficacy of child-parent relationship therapy on parental- acceptance and decreasing of disruptive behavior have special importance.

The aim of this research was the effect of group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) on depression symptoms decrease in girls 13-15 year olds high school referring to counseling centers education region 2 Ahvaz in city. 20 girl participants were select according to cut off point 22 in Children Depression Inventory (CDI, Rajabi), and DSM-5, and the participants were randomly assigned into an experimental and control groups (each group comprising 10 students). The participants in the experimental group received 12 sessions, and each of week 2-session, 90 minutes Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. The Children Depression Inventory was used for depression assessment. The findings repeated major analysis of variance showed that group cognitive-behavior therapy significantly decrease depression in experiment group in comparison with control group, and comparison of the stages of pre-test, post-test and follow-up in the experimental group showed that this treatment has been able to reduce the degree of depression from the pre-test to the follow-up stage (p

Intimacy and forgiveness are the most important components of a healthy marriage. Forgiveness is an intrapersonal process that can increase intimacy between couples. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of an acceptance and commitment based couple therapy on intimacy and forgiveness. A non-congruent multiple baseline experimental single case study was used as the method of the present study.4 couples (8 individuals) were chosen according to the result of Walker and Thompson intimacy scale (IS) and Family Forgiveness Scale (FFS). The couples participated in a 10 session, 90-minute program. The results showed that the couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment could increase intimacy and forgiveness among the couples by using cognitive flexibility.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between attachment to God and marital satisfaction with mediating role of marital spirituality and spiritual well-being. The subject of this study was married women of administrative personnel offices in Ahvaz.. For examining this model, at first, measures were validated on 103 women that were selected by available sampling method. Then 193 women by same sampling were selected for studying the fitness of model. Participant completed measures of Attachment to God Scale (AGS), Marital Satisfaction (Enrich), Marital Spirituality Scale (MSS) and Spirituality Well-Being Scale (SWBS). Results showed a significant relationship for the direct path analysis from attachment to God to marital spirituality, attachment to God to spirituality well-being, marital spirituality to marital satisfaction, and spirituality well-being to marital satisfaction. In addition for indirect path analysis the result showed that there was relationship between attachment to God and marital satisfaction with the mediating role of marital spirituality and spiritual well- being.

Communication is one of the most important features of social life. Hence, the present study deals with the relationship between girls’ interpersonal communication motives (pleasure, affection, inclusion, escape, relaxation and control) and satisfaction with communication with their fathers among the female students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 195 female students who were selected though availability sampling technique. For data collection, the Communication Satisfaction Inventory (Com-Sat) and the Interpersonal Communication Motives (ICM) scale were used. The obtained data was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The results showed that there is a positive relationship between pleasure, affection, inclusion and relaxation as interpersonal communication motives as and satisfaction with communication. Also, the result of the multi-variable regression analalysis showed that the motives pleasure, relaxation, escape and inclusion are the best predictors of communication satisfaction. Therefore, it can be concluded that interpersonal communication motives are the predictors of the meaningfulness of satisfaction with communication.