The present study set out to investigate the effect of social anxiety on performance in central executive functions of working memory، means inhibition function، in two condition of basic and induced anxiety Also performance in this task that related to inhibition function، is investigated both of processing efficacy and performance effectiveness. For this purpose، recruited 24 patients with social anxiety disorder and 24 non patients in multi-stage sampling method and were tested by Clinical Interview، Connor Social Anxiety Scale، Self-reported mental effort scale، Stroop Color Word Test، The results were analyzed with mixed repeated measures، modified bone ferreni post hoc test، independent T- test. Under basic and induced anxiety conditions the results showed that there were No significant differences between groups in processing efficacy (p<0. 26، p<0. 79) and performance effectiveness (P<0. 1). But In the induced anxiety condition there were significant differences between groups in both of processing efficacy (p<0. 001) and performance effectiveness (p<0. 001). Working memory in the social phobia patients was impaired، as compared to that of the healthy controls. Working memory deficiency observed in social phobia might be related to assumptions about social phobia’s cognitive model. This model suggests that individuals with social phobia cannot shift their attention to external stimuli in social situations.

Due to the weakening of the bonds of place-human that are part of globalization, spatial mobility, and environmental problems, bond and attachment to place (psychological issues) and cognitive issues are major factors in overcoming these problems, and in achieving environmental sustainability. Thus to enhance the attachment to place and to reduce the spatial mobility in new and central urban environments, it necessary to review the factors and variables affecting the place attachment in these environment. Place attachment involves positively experienced bonds, sometimes occurring without awareness, that are developed over time from the behavioral, affective, and cognitive ties between individuals and groups and their socio-physical environment. The neighborhood attachment is embedded in the relationships between physical, cognitive, affective and behavioral aspects of people-residential environment transactions. The few research studies that took into account more than one type of place demonstrate that attitudes towards place and their predictors may differ depending on the spatial scale. The present paper attempts to evaluate the theories of place attachment at central neighborhood and at three scales of home, neighborhood, city, and factors of place attachment and relationship among these factors with attachment intensity and spatial scale. The research is conducted using qualitative and quantitative methods such as drawing cognitive maps and distribution of questionnaires among Sorkhab (historical-central) neighborhood residents. Results of test showed that there is a U shaped relationship between place attachment intensity and spatial scale. Attachment to home has the highest value and attachment to neighborhood has the lowest one. There are descending linear relationship between cognitive and spatial scale from home to city and also a U shaped relationship between cognitive- attachment value and spatial scale. This relationship is of the highest value for the city scale and of the lowest for neighborhood scale. Evaluation of cognitive maps drawn by residents showed that cognitive maps of neighborhood have the highest frequency for the ways, nods, symbols and edges, while for the cognitive maps of city, this belongs to ways, edges, symbols and nods. So symbols at neighborhood scale and nodes at city scale have the more impact upon the residents’ mental image and legibility of neighborhood and city. Socio-demographic factors (gender, marital status, home ownership, car ownership, age, education, type of transportation, duration of residence) showed consistent impacts on place attachment and a strong positive and significant relationship was established between social factors and attachment to neighborhood. Understanding the relationship between place attachment and place identity and characteristics of the activities is useful for planners and urban designers in making livable and meaningful urban places. Also the results showed that increase of the spatial scale decrease the intensity of residents’ mental image. The results of the research indicate that in order for improving attachment to historic neighborhood, affective dimension (physical factors) and cognitive dimension of attachment to neighborhood must be taken into account, and more emphasis must be placed on improving symbols and ways in neighborhood; on the other hand, there is a need for improvement efforts for neighborhood center to enhance residents’ participation and social relations.

Subjective workload (SWL) is a general concept in ergonomics literature. SWL is defined as the costs to the operator's health to achieve a certain level of performance. The aim of this study was to assess the risk of SWL for musculoskeletal disorders in bank employees in Kurdistan Province. This analytical - descriptive study included 200 employees from the banks of Kurdistan Province. NASA-TLX software and general Nordic questionnaire were used for the assessment of subjective work load and the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders respectively. Statistical analysis was performed by means of SPSS19. 78% of the subjects were male and 22% were female. The mean age and mean work background of the subjects were 36.28 and 14.2 years, respectively. On the whole, 48% of the staff had experienced pain at least once during the past year with highest frequency in the neck (48%), lower back (44%), and upper back (36%). The NASA Index showed that the bank staffs have scored the effort scale and efficiency scale with respective mean values and SD of 72.8±25.3 and 36.0±22.6, as the maximum and minimum values among the various aspects of workload. Data analysis revealed that mean subjective workload had statistically significant relationships with matrimony, work background, and also with prevalence and experience of pain (P=0.0001). The rate of subjective workload and musculoskeletal disorders in bank staff are high to the same degree and it seems that subjective workload scales not only add to the subjective workload but also act as a risk factor for musculoskeletal disorders.

The current study strived to delve into the response behavior and perceptions of examinees while taking a test in light of cognitive load theory. The empirical data were collected from 60 MA English major graduates and students, with a high level of language proficiency. The participants were required to answer 60 multiple-choice language items (i.e., grammar and vocabulary questions), taken from the high-stakes tests of the MA English majors of the Iranian university entrance examination (IUEE), as fast and as accurately as possible. After completing each test item, they rated their perceptions with regard to the difficulty of test items (Bratfisch et al., 1972) and the amount of mental effort (Paas, 1992). Their response time spent on each language item and their selected options were also stored by the Psychopy software (Peirce et al., 2019). Through running Pearson and Spearman rho correlations, the findings revealed that response time enjoyed a strong positive correlation with mental effort, meaning that both objective and subjective cognitive load measures matched in terms of sensitivity to cognitive load changes in language test items. Further, the subjective measures of perceived mental effort and perceived level of difficulty revealed to be the sound indicators of cognitive load changes. As predicted, response time also indicated that more difficult language test items imposed a greater amount of load. The implications of the study will be explained.

The current research is aimed to investigate the relationship between basic beliefs and perception of parental relationships and subjective well-being. To do so, 655 high school students in Tehran (283 boys and 372 girls), were selected through cluster sampling. They were asked to complete the Basic Beliefs Inventory (BBI), the Perception of Parents Scale (POPS), the Satisfaction with Life scale, and the Positive and Negative Affection Scales inventories. Results obtained from correlation and regression analyses showed that meaningful world belief, favorable self belief, parents’ warmth perception, and perception of parents’ self-autonomy support are positively and significantly related to subjective well-being. Meaningful world belief along with perception of parents’ warmth, favorable self belief, and parents’ self-autonomy support detemine 51% of changes in subjective well-being. Based on the results of the current study, it is concluded that attempts to construct positive beliefs and optimizing parental relationships have important contributions to students’ subjective well-being.

Mental workload is a set of factors that affect on the mental processes of information, providing decision making and individual reactions in the workplace. This study aimed to assess the mental work load and effective factors on it among the emergency medical personnel during the rescue missions, and transportation of the injured persons. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 96 emergency medical personnel in Isfahan in 2013. For data collection, a standard questionnaire was used. The NASA TLX is an assessment tool that rates perceived workload on 6 different subscales: Mental demand, Physical demand and temporal demand, Frustration, effort, and performance. Score of mental work load was determined by NASA-TLX (V.2) software. Using SPSS 18 through Kolmogorov–Smirnov (K-S) test, independent t test, spearman and multivariate linear regression were analyzed. Average scores on the mental workload during the complex mission emergency medical personnel according to the weight and rating of each of sextet scales, (81.25±4.81) were calculated. The highest score sextet scales of NASA-TLX mental workload was for mental demands (90.10±8.41) and the lowest score related to the disappointment (55.20±8.01) of emergency medical personnel during the mission emergency medical personnel. Results showed that the emergency medical personnel at the mission complex emergencies exposed to high mental load that the main reasons were caused of the need to high speed action, make important decisions, and fast transportation of injured persons to the medical centers. This mental workload can lead to increase the error in the emergency medical personal, therefore, ergonomic and psychosocial interventions are suggested to reduce the human errors, stress and stress and fatigue among the emergency medical personnel job performance.

The purpose of this study was to identify the mediating role of life management strategies in the relationship between generativity-stagnation with subjective well-being in the middle age period. The research framework was correlation type and the statistical population of the research consisted of all middle-aged citizens of Kermanshah 200 individuals (127 men and 73 women) were selected by voluntary sampling method and responded to four instruments of subjective well-being (Keyes, Shmotkin & Ryff, 2002), Loyola generativity scale) McAdams & de St Aubin, 1992), stagnation scale (Bradley,1997), and life management Strategies scale (Baltes et al.,1999). For data analysis, we used path analysis. The results showed generativity- stagnation has a relationship with subjective well-being through life management strategies. those creators who use life management strategies will enjoy more subjective well-being in middle age. Also, people who experience stagnation in middle age use less management strategies, which reduces subjective well-being. As a result, considering the importance of subjective well-being in the middle-aged, psychologists can take a step towards increasing the quality of this period by relying on the two variables of generativist- stagnation and life management strategies and trying to improve and modify them in the middle-aged and performing interventions and treatments in the society

The importance of ergonomics is to create fit between work and human physiology using assessment methods of physical, physiological and subjective evaluation. The most commonly used tool for assessment of subjective symptoms is Borg scale during physical work and heart rate in physiological situations. This study is based on a subjective and physiological assessment during hard work in one of the metal industry in Isfahan. In this study, 200 male workers have entered voluntarily according to the Strand study protocol and were evaluated by ergometer. Subjects were asked to report Borg scale at the end of each minute pricing during the experiment, and the heart rate at the end of each minute was recorded by the device. There was a very strong correlation between the perceived intensity of effort as a subjective factor and ergometer increased workload (R^2= 0/91),(P<0.0001). Heart rate as a physiological factor associated with an increased workload and stiffness (R^2=0/96),(P<0.0001). Linear regression analysis of the relationship between perceived effort and workload was as equation Workload= 126.54 - 4.45 (RPE) and linear regression analysis of the relationship between heart rate and physical workload was as equation Workload= 125.89 – 0.54 (HR). In other words, the physical workload and heart rate has a more significant relationship than rating of perceived exertion with physical workload. Consequences: With a developed regression equation without any laboratory facilities, the workload of physical work is easily measurable. The physical working ability could be estimated based on measuring heart rate during work, or on the basis of changes in perceived physical ability and mental labor monitoring, so the required periodic checkups, education, etc. could be done.

Objective Besides their communication and socialization problems, many children with Intellectual Disability (ID) have difficulties with their parents, siblings, and teachers. The enduring nature of social reactions easily leads to social isolation. Thus, many children and adults with ID have few friends, even though they may desperately want to be liked. This can set up a vicious circle in which they attempt to win friends by latching onto the least chance for interaction with others. Regarding the characteristics of nonviolent communication program training, it seems that this program could reduce communication problems and improve mother-child interaction of children with ID. The nonviolent communication training program is one method for improvement of communication skills in parents of the children with ID because these parents are often facing problem in communication with their children. Nowadays, much effort is made for improving mother-child interaction, especially in mothers of children with ID. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of nonviolent communication program training on mother-child interaction in mothers of children with ID. Materials & Methods The present research was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and a control group. The study population included all of the mothers of children with ID who attend to Alborz Educational and Rehabilitation Institute which is located in Alborz Province, Iran under the supervision of welfare organization. The study sample included 30 mothers selected by convenience sampling method and assigned to two groups. The experimental group participated in a communication skills training program based on life language for 8 sessions (90 minutes for per session; twice a week), while the control group received no such training. The study instrument was the Pianta mother-child interaction scale (1992). The Pianta mother-child interaction scale was completed by mothers for all subjects in pretest and posttest. The study data were collected through the questionnaire before and after the training sessions. Multivariate analysis of covariance was performed in SPSS (Version 22) for analyzing the obtained data. Results First, the normality of study variables and contingency of variance and covariance assumptions were tested. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test showed that all variables were normally distributed (P>0.05). Also, the Box test confirmed the contingency of variance-covariance assumption. So, assumptions of the MANCOVA test were confirmed and MANCOVA test can be used for analysis of data. The results of MANCOVA revealed that posttest scores of experimental and control groups had a significant difference with regard to mother-child interaction (P<0.001). Also, the results of MANCOVA revealed that posttest scores of experimental and control groups had a significant difference with regard to conflict, closeness, and dependency subscales (P<0.001). It can be stated that according to Eta2, 67% of the variance in mother-child interaction can be explained by the subjects’ participation in the nonviolent communication training program. Also, according to Eta2, respectively 63%, 65%, and 66% of the variance in components of conflict, closeness, and dependency can be explained by the subjects’ participation in the nonviolent communication training program. Therefore, communication skills training based on life language has a positive effect on mother-child interaction of the mothers of children with ID. Conclusion Parents of children with ID has more problems in communication with their children than parents of any other kind of exceptional children. It doesn’t take long that these children be ostracized from social activities. Unfortunately, the negative social status experienced by children with ID is difficult to overcome and usually long-lasting. Nonviolent communication program training improves mother-child interaction in mothers of children with ID. Therefore, providing nonviolent communication program training has particular importance for these mothers.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric Indices of the 14-item Questionnaire of Mental Scale (TSV; Wu & Fan, 2016) in the Iranian student community. Participants were 260 students from Damghan State universities who were selected by cluster sampling. Participants responded to individually Task Subjective Value scales, Achievement behaviors, and academic self-efficacy in a single classroom session with the same set of tools, respectively. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used to evaluate the construct validity of the TSV Scale. The results of principal component analysis with varimax rotation showed that the TSV scale consists of two subscales Utility-Attainment value and intrinsic values. Confirmatory factor analysis results by comparing competing single-factor, two-factor and four-factor models showed that the two-factor structure of the scale had a better fit to the data and all fit indices confirmed the fit of the model. Also, the internal consistency of the TSV subscales using the Cronbach's alpha method was appropriate. To estimate the criterion and convergent validity of the correlation coefficients of the TSV subscales with the subscales of effort and persistence on the Scales of achievement Behaviors (Wu & Fan, 2016) and academic self-efficacy (Pint rich and De Groot, 1990). The level of 0.01 was significant. Totality, the results of the present study provide evidence for the validity and reliability of TSV as a tool for assessing the subjective value of homework among Iranian students and can be used by researchers.