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Exam anxiety is a type of anxiety related to the situation and is experienced as an unpleasant experience and hinders the growth and academic progress of the student. Therefore, it is very important to identify the factors that can prevent exam anxiety. The aim of the present study was to determine the mediating role of cognitive and metacognitive strategies in the relationship between parent-child relationship perception and test anxiety.

The research method was descriptive-correlational type. The statistical population of this research included all the female students of the second secondary school in Tehran in the academic year 2018-19, of which 330 were selected using the multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The research tools include parent-child relationship questionnaire; Sarason et al.'s test anxiety scale (1956) and Dawson and McInnery's (2004) cognitive and metacognitive strategies questionnaire. The structural equation modeling method was used to analyze the data.

The findings of the research showed that the perception of the father-child relationship (P=0.001, β=-0.120) and the perception of the mother-child relationship (P=0.001, β=-0.161) are indirectly related to exam anxiety.

It can be concluded that cognitive and metacognitive strategies play a mediating role in the relationship between the perception of parent-child relationship and test anxiety in girls.

Academic performance of students is an indicator by which their learning and progress is judged and many individual and environmental factors are effective in academic performance. The aim of the present study was to provide a structural model for explaining exam anxiety based on personality traits: evaluating the mediating role of cognitive and metacognitive strategies.

The statistical population of the present study was made up of all female students of the second secondary school in Tehran in the academic year of 2018-19. The sampling method was a multi-stage cluster random method and the sample size was 421 people. The research tools include the five-factor questionnaire of Neo Costa and Makri (1989); Sarason et al.'s test anxiety scale (1956) and Dawson and McEnery's Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies Questionnaire (2004). The structural equation modeling method was used to analyze the data.

The total path coefficient between personality neuroticism factor (p<0.01, β=0.492) and test anxiety is positive and significant at 0.01 level. Also, the total path coefficient between personality openness factor (p<0.01, β=0.186) and test anxiety was negative and significant at 0.01 level. The path coefficient between cognitive strategies and exam anxiety (p<0.05, β=0.196) on the one hand and the path coefficient between metacognitive strategies and exam anxiety (p<0.01, β=0.231) on the other hand The other was negative and significant at 0.05 and 0.01 levels, respectively. Indirect effect of conscientiousness traits (p<0.01, β=0.126), openness (p<0.01, β=0.121) and extraversion (p<0.01, β=0.079) Personality has a negative effect on test anxiety and is significant at the 0.01 level. On the other hand, the indirect effect of neuroticism (p<0.01, β=0.062) on exam anxiety was positive and significant at the 0.01 level.

It is concluded that the structural model of the explanation of exam anxiety based on personality characteristics: evaluation of the mediating role of cognitive and metacognitive strategies can be applied.

This research was aimed to study the impacts of interpersonal treatments on academic procrastination and cognitive- emotional enthusiasm considering the importance of educational and motivational issues in people's future and the importance of these factors in society development. This study was done according to exploratory mixed research design. In qualitative section, experts, pundits and therapists were selected for interpersonal approach, and male students of high school formed the target community in quantitative section that 30 of whom were purposefully selected and divided to 15 people groups in semi-experimental studies and participated by randomly substitution in the research. In first section which was according to qualitative method, interpersonal approach was modified in accordance with model and structure of target group based on experts' opinions and existing basics. After this stage, the impacts of mentioned approach were studied on cognitive- emotional enthusiasm and academic procrastination. Before and after the intervention on the experimental group, both groups fulfilled the researcher-made questionnaire about cognitive-emotional enthusiasm and academic procrastination. Based on results, interpersonal treatments was effective in increasing emotional cognitive enthusiasm and decreasing academic procrastination, and mentioned approach predicts 69% variance changes in decreasing procrastination scores and 61% of increasing enthusiasm scores based on eta parabolic space.

The aim of the current meta-analysis was to determine the biological, cognitive and psychosocial characteristics of relative parents and irrelative parents that having more than one exceptional child in Iran. Study procedure was meta-analysis. This research specifies the effect size of the biological, cognitive and psychosocial characteristics of relative parents and irrelative parents that having more than one exceptional child by using meta-analysis technique and integrating the results of different studies. On the whole, 9 methodologically acceptable studies were selected and met analysis was done on them. Sources of data search were scientific documents in universities, noor specialized magazines database (Normans), Scientific Information Database (SID) and Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC). The research tool was meta-analysis checklist. Finding of research showed that the rate of effect size of biological, cognitive and psychosocial characteristics of relative parents and irrelative parents that having more than one exceptional child in Iran was high. Therefore, it seems that the education programs before of marriage can be used as a method to prevent the relative marriage. On the other hand, planning to prevent of the impairments of biological, cognitive and psychosocial characteristics of relative parents that having more than one exceptional child has particular importance.

The purpose of this research was to study the comparison of the effectiveness of existential, cognitive-existential, and humanistic-existential group psychotherapy on sexual satisfaction among women with type-2 diabetes.

The research was a randomized controlled trial conducted through an experimental method and its experimental design included a pre-test, post-test, with two-month follow-up test with parallel experimental groups and a control group. The research sample population included women with type 2 diabetes referred to Towhid diabetes hospital during the first quarter of 2019. Thirty-two subjects were selected from this population through random sampling and assigned to the two experimental and the control group using random assignment. Data was collected using the Sexual Satisfaction Scale (Meston & Trapnell, 2005). Experimental groupschr('39') subjects participated in 9 separate 120-minute weekly groups sessions.

The results of the general linear model with repeated measures test showed that interventions of cognitive-existential and humanistic-existential significantly increased sexual satisfaction compared to the control group (F= 4; P<0/05). The results also showed the greater effect of the cognitive-existential (MD= 6; P<0/05) and humanistic-existential groups (MD= 1; P<0/05) on the post-test and a greater effect of the existential group on the follow-up test (MD= 12; P<0/05).

The application of cognitive-existential and humanistic-existential group psychotherapy to increase sexual satisfaction among women with type-2 diabetes is more effective than existential psychotherapy for successful counseling and psychotherapy.

The memory-based cognitive training program has special attention to cognitive ability and communication skills in deaf students. The present study aimed to determine the effect of the memory-based cognitive training on the cognitive ability and communication skills of deaf students.  

This study was a semi-experimental kind with pre-test, post-test design, and control group. The participants included 26 female deaf students. Participants were selected by convenience sampling method from Mir deaf high school in Isfahan city. They were randomly divided into experimental and control groups, each group consisted of 13 students. The experimental group participated in a memory-based cognitive training program in ten sessions, but the control group did not participate in this program. The research instruments were the Wechsler intelligence scale for children (2003) and the Burton communication skills questionnaire (1990). Data were analyzed by MANCOVA.

The results indicated that memory-based cognitive training had a significant effect on the cognitive ability and communication skills of students (P<0.0001).

According to the findings, a memory-based cognitive training program improved the cognitive ability and communication skills of deaf students. So, this program can be used to improve the cognitive ability and communication skills of these students and paying attention to the memory-based cognitive training program is effective and useful.

The aim of this study was to determine and compare the three therapeutic effects of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) in reducing anxiety in patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Method was quasi-experimental with three experimental groups, one control group and pre-test, post-test and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population was 486 patients referred to Kerman Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital in 2018. 60 men were selected in purposeful sampling method and randomly assigned to four groups of 15. In group 1, six 45-minute sessions of Shapiro solo EMDR (2014) were performed. In group 2 six 60-minute sessions of group CBT of Dugas & Robichaud (2007) were performed. And in group 3 six 60-minute sessions solo EFT of Church (2014) were performed. All the Four groups completed the Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg & Jacobs's Anxiety Inventory (1983) in three stages. Data were analyzed using mixed analysis of variance.

Results in group 1showed that at the level of 99% confidence, state anxiety (F = 42.36) and trait (F = 12.66), in group 2, state anxiety (F = 5.38) and trait and in group 3, state anxiety (F = 15.23) and trait (F = 18.50) were reduced. This effect remained stable at follow-up stage. In addition, among the three methods, EMDR was more effective on state anxiety than the other two interventions (P= 0.015).

Since, all the three methods can improve behavioral strategies by influencing irrational thoughts and emotion release, they are effective ways to reduce anxiety in PTSD patients.

The study purpose was to determine the psychometric properties of the motivational structure questionnaire in adolescents.

Research method was correlational and the statistical population included all female and male adolescents from second secondary education in Tehran's 22nd district to 177000 people in the 2016-2017 academic year among whom based on Comrey & Lee (2016) suggestion 426 were selected using multi-stage sampling method. In the first stage, three direction, the north, center and south of Tehran map, in the second stage, three regions, 1, 5 and 18 of each direction and in the last stage of each region randomly Shahid Motahari and Somayeh High Schools from District 1, Shahid Amoyan and Ayin Tarbiat from District 5 and Shahid Mofeghian and Farzanegan from 18 District were selected. The research tool was the Personal Concerns Inventory by Cox & Klinger (2004). After removal of 6 distortion questionnaires and 2 outliers, 418 student data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis.

The results showed that fitness indices of confirmatory factor analysis, confirmatory factor fitness indicators with the exception of the Chi-squared which was equal to 357.58 in 0.001 significant level, support the pattern of two components of adaptive and non-adaptive motivational structures and Cronbach's alpha coefficients for adaptive and non-adaptive motivational structures is respectively 0.73 and 0.77.

According to the results, the motivational structure scale has appropriate validity and reliability, and it can be used to measure the motivational structure of students, as well as to prevent and detect cognitive, emotional and behavioral damages in schools.

The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP), Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Third-Wave Behavior Therapies on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in Iranian population. The research method was a meta-analysis and the statistical population of all researches conducted in Iran between 2005 and 2017 was 58 studies that among them, 34 studies were selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria as the research sample and finally reported 13 effect sizes for ERP, 19 effect sizes for CBT and 12 effect sizes for Third-Wave Behavior Therapies. The effect size index was the standardized mean difference also statistical analysis was done by comprehensive meta-analysis software. The results showed that ERP (d= 1.815, P= 0.05), CBT (d= 1.542, P= 0.05) and Third-Wave Behavior Therapies (d= 1.688, P= 0.05) had been effective for OCD. In addition, study of type of treatment as a moderating variable didn’t show significant difference. Based on the findings of this meta-analysis, it can be concluded that exposure is the most important therapeutic process in the treatment of OCD which it is an essential component in all three therapeutic approaches, and probably adding cognitive, mindfulness and acceptance components will not significantly contribute to the efficacy of behavioral therapy based on ERP in Iranian patients with OCD.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cultural intelligence on academic entrepreneurship to present a model. This research was applied in terms of purpose, which was done by descriptive survey method. The statistical population included 638 faculty members of Islamic Azad university branches of Golestan province. The sample was done using stratified random sampling method according to the degree of the university unit and the sample size was calculated 240 people using Cochran's formula. Data collection tools were a researcher-made university entrepreneurship questionnaire and the cultural intelligence questionnaire of Ang and colleagues with a reliability of 0.71 and 0.83. The validity of the questionnaires was reviewed and confirmed by experts. One-sample t-test, structural equations were used to analyze the data. The results showed that cultural intelligence was in good condition. The study of the status of the dimensions of cultural intelligence showed that the metacognitive and behavioral dimension of cultural intelligence is moderate and the cognitive dimension and motivational dimension of cultural intelligence is above average and in general, cultural intelligence is above average. Also, the results of structural equations showed that cultural intelligence has an effect on academic entrepreneurship.

The aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on anger management. The study is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test in experimental and control groups. Population of study consisted of all secondary school students in the academic year 1394 in Qom. Spielberger State-Trait Anger Scale implemented on 148 students who were randomly selected. Then twenty students were selected from among those who had the highest score. Among them, 10 patients were in the experimental group and 10 patients were in the control group. Group therapy on anger management was administered for 11 sessions in the experimental group, then Anger Scale implemented from both the experimental and control group. Data were analyzed by “t-test”.The mean of pre-test and post-test in experimental group decreased on three subscales of general anger, expressing internal and external anger and expressing anger and The mean of post-test had significant increase in scale control anger. There was no significant difference between the pretest and post-test in the control group. Also there was a significant variance between the experimental group and the control group.The results showed that cognitive-behavioral group therapy on anger management of high school students is effective in controlling anger. The results will help official’s secondary schools with their plans to reduce anger, anger management training, resulting in horrible consequences are students.

Infertility has been described as creating a form of stress leading to a variety of psychological problems. Psychological interventions are effective treatments for infertility stress. Therefore, this study was performed to examine the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral based sexual skills education on marital adjustment in infertile women in Kermanshah. This study was quasi-experimental of pretest, post-test with control group type and its statistical method was Multivariable Analyze of Covariance. The sample population was chosen out of 22-37 years old women suffer from infertility referring to infertility clinics of Kermanshah, with the diagnosis of sexual dysfunction. Twenty people were selected among 33 people qualified to participate in this study and placed randomly in two control and experimental group. The people who were in experimental group, participated in sexual skills education meetings for 10 sessions. Control group received no intervention during this time. In order to record the score changes, the Female Sexual Function Index (2000) and Dyadic Adjustment Scale (1976) were filled out by participants. The results of Multivariable Analyze of Covariance showed that sexual skills education has significant effect on marital adjustment score, so that the score of marital adjustment for women suffer from infertility increased significantly. Therefore, the clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, gynaecologists are encouraged to use the method of cognitive-behavioral based sexual skills education to improve the marital adjustment in the women suffer from infertility.

The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of group counseling with cognitive-behavioral and schema therapy approaches on student’s attachment styles. The study was quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group. The statistic population consisted of all female students living in the dormitories of Tehran University on 92-93 years. Twenty seven students selected via purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to cognitive-behavioral group counseling, schema- based group counseling and control group. Participants completed the Adult Attachment Inventory. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance (Moncova). The results showed a significant difference among cognitive-behavioral group counseling and Schema-based group counseling and the control group in terms of secure and insecure attachment styles (P0.01), comparison of three groups showed that only schema- based group counseling and control group had different impact on ambivalent attachment style (P

Anxiety as part of every human life one of these areas is tested and evaluated. In reviewing the various common types of anxiety that affects 10 to 30 percent of student. The present studyReview the effectiveness of cognitive and metacognitive strategies and SQ4R Methods in reducing test anxiety, increase self-efficacy and academic achievement in high school students Rodhen city in Iran. The sample consisted of the population of 48 student's randomly selected sampling method and the way randomly in four groups of three experimental groups and one control group were.  To measure research variables from two tools was used: test Anxiety Inventory STAI-Y and self-efficacy Schwartz Scale. For analyzing the data, multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA) were usedthe results showed that Cognitive strategies, approaches the end of the story, and their combination had a significant effect on students' test anxiety. Self-efficacy scores before and after training, cognitive strategies, approaches the end of the story, and their combination, showed that subjects in the experimental and control groups, there are significant differences. Cognitive strategies, approaches the end of the story, and their combination had a significant effect on students' self-efficacy. According to the findings, it seems that the SQ4R method employed in academic achievement and reduces anxiety has been effective. Average adjusted after the conclusion of the experimental group showed that the greatest impact in reducing anxiety and the combination has created the most progress in academic scores.

the main purpose of the study was to reveal perceptual-cognitive biases related to supernatural beliefs in the cerebral hemispheres. Paranormal beliefs are strongly related to perceptual biases for detecting illusory patterns for instance. perceptual processing and Cognitive biases are strongly influenced by prior expectations and learning experiences.
A convenient sample of 32 university students (10 females) were recruited for the experiment. Three measures were used, a computerized face/house recognition task, a brain lateralization scale (Wells and Wagner, 1985), and paranormal belief questionnaire (Blackmore and Moore, 1994).Repeated measures ANOVA method was used.
The result showed a significant difference between groups with left and both left/right brained in Perceptual-Cognitive biases.
this study revealed a relationship between paranormal belief with right brained lateralization scores.These findings are in agreement with those of previous studies, which indicates that paranormal beliefs influence the perceptual processing and Cognitive biases.

Aim: life’s quality is a broad term that encompasses all aspects of a person's current life. Reduction life’s quality can have a lot of problems for people. For this reason, the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of couple therapy combining cognitive-behavioral and Structural upon life’s quality of couples who are divorcing.
This study was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and nonequivalent control group. The study's sample composed of all couples having conflicting referring to family counseling center of Sanandaj Justice in 1391. 32 Person of couples conflicting were selected by random sampling in both experimental and control groups (each group of 16 Person). The instrument of data collecting was life’s quality Questionnaire of World Health Organization(WHOQOL-BREF).. Couples of experimental group received 10 sessions cognitive-behavioral and structural therapy. The data were analyzed by using covariance multivariate analysis .
Findings: Results showed that combining couple therapy could have increase life’s quality and its aspects in experimental group in compare to control group (p≤0/05, F=3/554).
Results of this study have emphasized the role and effect of couple therapy combining cognitive-behavioral with structural on life’s quality of couples divorcing.

The purpose of present study was the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on reducing test anxiety and increasing self-efficacy in high school female students.
The design of the study was experimental, pre-test, and post-test with control group. Statistical population includes 60 high school female students of Siahkal city in 2014-2015 academic year. Statistical sample includes the subjects who obtain a least one score above the average in anxiety scale and one score below the average in self-efficacy scale and they were categorized randomly in two 15-person experimental and control groups. The pre-test was administered for both groups. The experimental group received eight sessions of intervention once a week for about 90 minutes. But no intervention was applied in control group. After this stage, post-test was conducted for both groups at the same time and in the same condition. Both groups were evaluated with Spielberger test anxiety scale and general self-efficacy scale of Scherer et al. the statistical method of MANCOVA was used for data analysis, in addition to descriptive statistics and all operations were performed by SPSS-20 software.
The results showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy training had no significant effect on reducing test anxiety among high school female students (f(1/26)= 0/03,p=0/867,µ2=0/0001). But there was a meaningful effect on increasing the self-efficacy of the students (f (1/26) =12/13, p= 0/002, µ2=0/32).
Discussion and Cognitive-behavioral group therapy has been effective in increasing self-efficacy in high school female students.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of covert sensitization with cognitive behavior therapy on craving power and probable use of crack. This quasi-experimental research used all crack-addicted people who referred to Islamshahr drug abuse treatment centers in 2010 as the population. Using convenient sampling method, 30 crack addicts were selected and then randomly assigned into experimental and control group, 15 in each. All participants answered to Relapse Predication Scale (Wright, 2001) before and after the treatment. The experimental group received 12 sessions of cognitive behavior therapy along with covert sensitization and the control group received only cognitive behavior therapy. To analyze the data, covariance was used. Results indicated that covert sensitization along with cognitive behavior therapy were associated with decreasing craving power; however, they were not effective upon relapse prevention (P<0/001).