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The role of parents in improving the quality of life of intellectually disabled children is clear completely. Studies show that promoting the life skills of mothers can lead to the well-being and quality of life of these children and their parents. Therefore, conducting controlled research in this field is necessary and has priority.

The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based life skill training on psychological wellbeing and attitudes among parents of mild mentally retarded children.

The research design was experimental with a pretest-post-test and control group. The statistical population of the study was the parents of mentally retarded children who were studying in Shiraz during the 1400-99 academic year and were matched based on age and level of education. The sample consisted of 30 parents with mentally retarded children who were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned into experimental (n = 15) and control (n = 15) groups. Also, the intervention was performed in eight sessions of 120 minutes (one session per week). Research data were collected using a psychological wellbeing and parental attitudes questionnaires and analyzed using multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance and SPSS-22.

The results showed that mindfulness-based life skills training had a significant effect on improving self-control, self-acceptance and having a goal. The results also showed that mindfulness-based life skills training had a significant effect on the dimensions of acceptance of love, despair and extreme support of parents of children with mild intellectual disabilities.

Considering the efficacy of mindfulness-based life skill training on parents’ attitudes and psychological wellbeing, it seems necessary to pay more attention to this factor in the research and education of families who have children with intellectual disabilities.

The importance of quality of life in children with intellectual disabilities (ID) is receiving increasing attention nowadays. Considering the role of parents in improving the quality of life of children with mental disabilities, the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based life skills training on the parent-child relationship among parents with ID children.

The research design was experimental with a pretest, post-test and control group. The statistical population of the study was the parents with ID children who were training in schools in Shiraz in 2021. The parents were matched based on age and level of their literacy. The sample size is 30 parents who were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned into experimental (n = 15) and control (n = 15) groups. The intervention was performed in 8 sessions of 120 minutes (one session per week) for experimental group. Data were collected using a child-parent relationship questionnaire and analyzed using multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance and SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 22.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Ill., USA).

The mean (SD) of conflict resolution in the pre-test was 47.66 (6.11) which increased to 51.86 (8.18) in the post-test the experimental group. Also, the mean (SD) of the child acceptance in the pre-test was 36.93(4.47), which increased to 41.00 (5.85) in the post-test (P=0.001). In the control group, the mean (SD) of conflict resolution and child acceptance in pre-test and post-test were not different. The univariate correlation analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the dimensions of the parent-child relationship between the control and experimental groups in the post-test (p <0.001).

The study showed that mindfulness-based life skills' training is effective on conflict resolution and child acceptance in their parents of children with intellectual disabilities. Therefore, the use of this intervention in the field seems to be beneficial for families with children with ID.

This study aimed to predict job self-efficacy based on critical thinking and dynamic personality. The present study was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this study includes all employees of the morning shift at Shiraz Dental School.

The statistical sample of this study includes 80 employees who were selected by random clustering. To collect data to test research hypotheses, the SARJI Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale, Ritex Critical Thinking, and the dynamic personality of Batman and Krant were used. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was also reported to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire. Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis were used for data analysis by means of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) package.

The results showed that dynamic personality and critical thinking have a significant relationship with job self-efficacy. Also, the results of multiple regression analysis showed that dynamic personality and critical thinking significantly predict job self-efficacy in employees.

This finding has important implications for training and promoting the employees’ mental health.