فصلنامه روانشناسی تربیتی
سال سیزدهم شماره 43 (بهار 1396)

The present research was conducted to formulate the effectiveness of the theoretical model of students’ lifestyle wellness in Iranian society. From this point, after analyzing experimental and theoretical backgrounds of the subject, the mixed methods and grounded theory research of Strauss & Corbin and researcher’s own made questionnaire are inductively formed. With regard to the provided strategy in the wellness model of student’s lifestyle namely life skills education, an educational package approach is designed within which the students’ lifestyle wellness could be upgraded in a course of 11 sessions and ultimately to be known as a means for uplifting their lifestyle qualities. For testing the effectiveness of the package, 40 students of Tehran University have been selected and tested through systematic sampling, dividing them into two separated control and experiment groups and then distributed among them a researcher made questionnaire evaluating their lifestyle situation. And then, an 11 life skills education session is executed for the experiment group. For testing the quantitative section of the research, there was an accumulative point to students’ lifestyle wellness and then it has been obvious that through analysis of covariance there is a meaningful difference between control and experiment group. So, provided model have an effective role in Iranian student’s lifestyle wellness.

This research was conducted to study the relationship among basic psychological needs, academic motivation and student's academic engagement (in English language) in Structural Equation Modeling method. Using stratified sampling, 423 (127 males and 296 females) secondary and junior students were selected to participate in the study. They replied to the basic psychological needs, academic motivation and academic engagement Questionnaires. Structural equation modeling revealed that basic psychological needs satisfaction exerted a direct, significant influence upon intrinsic motivation, Identified regulation, Interjected regulation and an indirect one upon academic engagement. In addition, basic psychological needs had a negative direct influence upon amotivation, while the direct influence of related on extrinsic motivation was not significant. Intrinsic motivation, Interjected regulation and Identified regulation had a positive direct influence upon academic engagement, while the direct influence of related on amotivation was negative and significant. Additionally, the direct influence of related on extrinsic and interjected regulation was not significant. In general, findings of this study suggested basic psychological needs had influence on student's English language engagement through the meditational effects of academic motivation.

In order to develop competency of managers of National Iranian Gas Company and formulate the desirable pattern, this research was performed by exploratory combination method. Seven main components were reflected in the form of conceptual pattern by data analysis. Based on findings resulted from analysis of qualitative step, research’s questionnaire was designed and its validity was calculated using the comments of the experts (74%) and its reliability by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient and was performed in statistical sample of 160 managers of National Iranian Gas Company and qualitative data of research were collected. The results of analysis of quantitative data show that general competency status of managers in National Iranian Gas Company is above average and relatively favorable and also the results of confirmatory factor analysis show that seven identified components have sufficient factor load to predict the competency of managers of National Iranian Gas Company, but among the constituent components of competency, analyzing strategic approach with factor load of 16.0 and 0.025 has significance level of 0.35 and in mental competency dimension, problem solving and decision making component with factor load of 19.0 and 0.04 have significance level of 0.21 which are removed from general model. So, by using desirable pattern of competency of managers, training programs proportional to promoting competency of managers are planned so that increasing skills and competency of managers are guaranteed and sustainable competitive advantage will be accomplished for the organization.

This research was examined with the aim of improving social skills by using group games with the control of mothers’ emotional intelligence quotient (EQ). In this semi-experimental study, pretest-posttest randomized group design and random sampling, from 100 children between 6-5 years and pre-elementary center in Tehran, Region 2, 30 children with low social skills, were selected and placed randomly in two groups, test group (15 children) and control group (15 children). Their mothers’ emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) were evaluated too .The members of test group participated in group games designed by researcher to learn social skills. They participated in these games ten sessions, two times per week. The researcher utilized two different tools to evaluate social skills and emotional intelligence quotient (EQ). Schemes in this research were computed by covariance analysis statistic test. Research results showed that teaching social skills in pre-elementary children by using group games improves their skills effectively. (p0/05). Also, Lateral Results using independent t test were showed that who girls in post-test than boys (p

Current solution to the problems of education requires more sophisticated and smart approach by choosing that an important part of the (brain-compatible learning) is provided. Brain compatible learning considers how naturally learning take place. It seeks for changing the frame to make an effective teaching based on the structure and functions of human brain.The main objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of brain compatible learning on the components of planning and problem solving of executive functions of 4th grade of elementary school. This study has been conducted with unequal control group design from quasi-experimental design. The statistical society consisted of all male students in Salam elementary private school of Tehran) 7 school) in 2015-2016 academic year, and the target sample chosen from 38 students of the 4th grade in Salam schools in the district 5. Fifty hours of brain compatible education for experimental teachers’ group and 3 months education were performed for students according to brain compatible lesson plans for mathematics, science and literature lessons. Pre-test and post-test data were collected by using Tower of London Test and they were analyzed by one way analysis of covariance, and multiway analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). Results showed that brain compatible learning has been effective on planning component of executive functions and also brain compatible learning has been effective on problem solving component of executive functions (F=24/94, P

The relationships between motivational beliefs with procrastination and class climate have been shown in previous studies. In this study, the psychometric properties of Classroom Learning Environment (CEL) Questionnaire were presented, and the mediating role of motivational beliefs in relationship between class climate and procrastination examined. 196 students of Birjand University were selected by cluster sampling. The research tools were Procrastination Assessment Scale (PASS Student Version), Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and CLE Questionnaire. The data were analyzed by path analysis and multivariate regression. The findings showed that the class environment effected indirectly procrastination through motivational beliefs. Class atmosphere and motivational beliefs explained 28% of the procrastination variance. It also showed that the components of test anxiety and self-efficacy from motivational beliefs were predictive power of procrastination. According to these findings, motivational beliefs have a mediating role in relationship between the class climate and procrastination and should be considered in setting learning environment.

The present study was carried out in order to investigate the impact of learning styles and applying semantic-mapping on the high school students’ critical thinking ability and English vocabulary learning improvement. To fulfill the purpose of the study, a sample of 123 female students studying Math and Physics were randomly selected from 4 educational districts of Karaj narrowed down to Farzanegan High school in the 1st educational district using accidental clustering sampling method. Then, they were divided into two homogenized experimental and control groups. The students completed the Critical Thinking Questionnaire (Honey, 2004) and Learning Style Questionnaire (O’Brien, 1989) in the pre- and post-test steps. They also were administered a general proficiency test of Nelson (A050) for the purpose of homogeneity, and a vocabulary test to ensure their illiteracy of them at the onset of the treatment. In addition, the same vocabulary test was taken as a post-test after 12 sessions of instruction and learning through semantic-mapping, as a vocabulary learning strategy. The data was collected. Based on the statistical analysis, the results showed the learning styles had no statistically significant impact on the students’ critical thinking ability and their vocabulary learning improvement (two-way, and ANOVA analyses) the first and second hypotheses of the study were confirmed. The third and fourth hypotheses were rejected as the results revealed that semantic-mapping had a statistically significant impact on the critical thinking ability and vocabulary learning improvement of the participants (independent T-tests). Then, some pedagogical and practical implications and suggestions for further research as well as limitations of the study are provided.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between school safety and school engagement. The population is taken from students of the public high school of Rey, Tehran. The total numbers of the participants are 322 which were selected by the random cluster sampling method. School safety was measured using the Revised School safety Questionnaire (Skiba, Simmons, Peterson& Forde, 2006). School engagement was measured using the Revised School engagement Scale (Wang, Willett & Eccles 2011). The SPSS 18 and STATGRAPHICS 5.1 were used to conduct a canonical correlation analysis. Results from the canonical correlation model revealed that there is 3 significant set between school safety and school engagement. According to the first set, school climate and learning safety support shared 0/43 of the variance with self-regulated learning, belonging to school and using cognitive strategy .According to the second set, school climate, absence of delinquency, personal safety, and absence of incivility support shared 0/10 of the variance with self-regulated learning, belonging to school, using cognitive strategy, and passion to learn. According to the third set, school climate, absence of delinquency, connection, learning safety support shared 0.05 of the variance with self-regulated learning, belonging to school, and using cognitive strategy. In sum, in schools which we can see more safety, we can see more engagement. This result can be explained through Lewin's Field Theory, ecological perspective of Brenner, and Maslow's hierarchy of needs.