Social Psychology
hassan jozi; farzaneh ramezanpoor; mohammadjavad bagean koulemarz
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Introduction: Using the Internet and social networks is an integral part of our lives, however, excessive use of them has many psychological and social consequences. This study was conducted with the aim of a structural model of attachment styles, dark triad personality, and sensitivity to rejection ...
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Introduction: Using the Internet and social networks is an integral part of our lives, however, excessive use of them has many psychological and social consequences. This study was conducted with the aim of a structural model of attachment styles, dark triad personality, and sensitivity to rejection with social media addiction mediated by communication skills in students.
Method: The research method is descriptive-correlational modeling of structural equations. The statistical population of this study consists of all high school students in Nurabad (Delfan) in the academic year 1400, from which a sample of 400 high school students; was selected by cluster sampling method. They completed the online version of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (Hazen and Shiver 1987), Dark Triad Personality Questionnaire (Jones and Paulus 2014), Social Network Addiction Questionnaire (Tutgun-Ünal and Deniz 2015), and Korkut’s (1996) Communication Skills Questionnaire. They also responded to the Sensitivity to Rejection Scale (Dooney and Feldman 1996).
Results: The results of structural equation modeling showed that attachment styles, dark personality triads, and rejection sensitivity account for 32% of the variance of communication skills. Also, social media addiction explains 41% of the variance of attachment styles, dark triad personality, Sensitivity to rejection, and communication skills.
Conclusion: Overall, the findings suggest that weakening rejection sensitivity, and enhancing Communication skills can be considered in future studies as contributors to social networking sites addiction for prevention or intervention studies.
Mahmoud Borjali; Erfan Borhani
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Introduction: Everyone needs to learn communication skills to achieve a better life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of communication skills training on social anxiety and anger of abused and neglected adolescents in Tehran.
Method: The applied research method is quasi-experimental, pre-test-post-test ...
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Introduction: Everyone needs to learn communication skills to achieve a better life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of communication skills training on social anxiety and anger of abused and neglected adolescents in Tehran.
Method: The applied research method is quasi-experimental, pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population includes all abused and unaccompanied adolescents in Tehran. A total of 16 people were selected by purposive, available sampling and randomly divided into two groups of 8 controls and experiments. Communication skills training was held for the experimental group in 9 sessions of 90 minutes. Data collection tools were Lajerka Social Anxiety (1999) and Spielberger Anger (1999) Questionnaire. After analyzing the scores, the analysis of covariance was used to test the hypotheses.
Results: The results showed that communication skills training affected social anxiety (F <0.05) and adolescent anger (0.02) concerning the significance level (0.05).
Conclusion: Lack of communication skills increases social anxiety and anger among abused and orphaned adolescents and causes many social problems. It is recommended that communication skills in daycare centers and semi-centralized children and adolescents with injuries Be used socially so that they learn the most important principle of living, which is to believe in themselves.
Mahbobeh zare baghbidi; Azam etemadifard
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Introduction: Considering the increasing number of divorce client couples, investigating factors affecting marital burnout has received much attention from researchers. Marital burnout is a painful state of physical, emotional, and emotional exhaustion that results in divorce in its most severe form. ...
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Introduction: Considering the increasing number of divorce client couples, investigating factors affecting marital burnout has received much attention from researchers. Marital burnout is a painful state of physical, emotional, and emotional exhaustion that results in divorce in its most severe form. The purpose of this research was to determine the Mediating role of communication skills in the relationship between alexithymia and marital burnout of divorce client couples in Yazd. Method: The research method was descriptive – correlation and the population of research include all divorce client couples in Yazd that a sample of 180 divorce client couples was selected via in reachable sampling method. The research instruments were: Pains (1996) burnout couple measurement, Jerabeck (2004) Interpersonal communication skills questionnaire and general self-efficacy scale, and Toronto alexithymia scale (FTAS-20). Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis used for data analysis. Results: Results showed the significant relation between alexithymia, communication skills, and marital burnout of divorce client couples (p < 0/05). Conclusion: Based on the finding of this research , couples' recognition and gaining of communication skills, given the significant relationship between alexithymia and marital burnout, can play an effective mediating role in reducing divorce.
Arezoo Omidpour; Majid Baradaran; Farzaneh Ranjbar Noushari
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to effectiveness of gratitude training on empathy and communication skills in adolescents girls. Method: This research was conducted through a pre-test and post-test research design with a control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of ...
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to effectiveness of gratitude training on empathy and communication skills in adolescents girls. Method: This research was conducted through a pre-test and post-test research design with a control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of 3258 female eighth-grade students in Rasht city in the academic year of 2019-2020, from which a sample of 40 was selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. For data collection, Quinn Dam (2004), Empathy Juliff & Farrington (2006), and Emmons & McCullough Appreciation Training Questionnaire (2) were used. The data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance. Results: The results showed that gratitude training influenced female adolescents' empathy (P˂0.028) and communication skills (P˂0.001). Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, it can be concluded that adolescence is a very important and important period with unique characteristics. In this context, appreciation of training can be effective.