Introduction: Pain-related mental images have an important role in pain experience of the patients and processing of sensory information through cognitive and emotional processes. The treatment protocol for rescripting of pain mental image has recently been complied and validated in order to change the pain perception. This study has been conducted aimed to determine the efficacy of rescripting of pain mental image on the severity of perceived pain by the patients with chronic pain. Method: this is an empirical study with pre-test, posttest and follow-up stages, conducted on an experiment and a control group. Sampling was done randomly from among the patients with chronic pain who referred to the Specialized Clinic of Pain in Labafinejad Hospital of Tehran. With regard to inclusion and exclusion criteria, 50 subjects were selected and randomly assigned to two groups. Data were analyzed via Variance analysis within and between groups. Results: The results of this study show that rescripting of pain mental image has been effective in the reduction of pain intensity of the patients with chronic pain (P: 0.001, α2 : 0.58). Conclusion: Rescripting of pain mental image can be presented as a compact and short-term psychological intervention which may be easily combined with pharmaceutical and physical therapy programs to reduce pain of the patients with chronic pain.
Aim: The purpose of the present study was to discuss the implications of the lessons from the Quran in managing the roles and relationships in couples.
Methods: Using the qualitative method and applying content analysis, all verses related to couples from Quran were explored.
Results: According to the results of the study, the main identified themes for the stage of marriage included romantic relationships, couples’ roles, boundaries, distribution of family management, financial relationships, sexual relationships, and conflict resolution in couples’ relationships.
Conclusion: Based on the lessons from the Quran, the religious attitude can be considered a powerful tool in order to decrease marital conflicts and eventually in increasing marital satisfaction.
is regarded as one of the determiner factors of a healthy society that will lead to a better next generation. The aim of the present study is to examine the mediating role of love stories in regards to early maladaptive schemas and marital satisfaction. Method: The statistical population of this study was the married population in Arak city. For this purpose 210 couples were selected via available sampling. These couples answered to the Young Schema Questionnaire-short Form (YSQ-SF), the ENRICH’s marital satisfaction questionnaire, and the Love Stories Scale (LSS). Results: The results showed that the early maladaptive schemas have a negative and significant correlation with marital satisfaction. In addition, the results of the path analysis indicated that the genre stories (war, theater, and mystery) have a mediating role in regards to early maladaptive schemas and marital satisfaction and early maladaptive schemas have an indirect effect on marital satisfaction through love stories. Conclusion: It seems that both early maladaptive schemas and love stories are the internal criteria in selecting a spouse and is considered as an important factor in marital satisfaction. Thus, it is important to consider the role of early maladaptive schemas and love stories in assessing and also beginning treatments for low marital satisfaction.
Most research into psychopathy among prisoners has almost entirely been based in Western countries, and it is unclear whether these research findings are applicable to other settings as well. The main aim of the current study was to survey the relationship between Five Factor Model and psychopathic personality in a sample of male prisoners in Iran. Participants (N = 202) completed the Hare Psychopathic Checklist: screening version (PCL: SV) and NEO Five Factors Inventory (NEO-FFI). The results were analyzed with Pearson correlation coefficient, regression, and t-test for the independent group. Results showed positive and significant correlation between psychopathy with extraversion and also negative and significant correlation between psychopathy with openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The comparison of psychopath prisoners with non-psychopath and non-prisoners showed that there were significant differences between groups in conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness; thus psychopath prisoner, in comparison with other groups, was lower in conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness. More research regarding the studied variables can render brighter data.
Fatemeh Rahmatian Seyed Sepehr Hashemian Ahmad BorjAli Mojtaba Habibi MSc, General Psychology, Allame Tabatabae University, Tehran, Iran. MSc, Clinical psychology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Allameh Tabatabae University, Tehran, Iran. Assistant Professor, Family Research Institute, Faculty of Health Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Corresponding Author: Fatemeh Rahmatian Tel: (+98)9111366305 email: Malahat.Rahmatian@gmail.com Background: This study investigated the association between Iranian university students' perception of their fathers and their object-relations and defense mechanisms. Materials and Methods: Participants were 438 students between 18-22 years from Tehran Police Science University, who voluntary agreed to fill the Fatherhood Scale (Dick, 2004), Bell object relation inventory(1986),and defense mechanisms style, DSQ-40. Results: Using stepwise regression indicated that positive Parental Engagement significantly would be able to predict ALN and mature defense mechanisms and immature defense mechanisms. Positive paternal engagement & negative paternal engagement significantly predict ALN and Mature defense mechanisms. And also, negative paternal engagement, can predict IA and ECG. The good provider role subscale of fathering scale would be able to predict of SI of object relation factors and of Neurotic defense mechanism. This subscale with negative paternal engagement can predict SI Conclusion: As a result, current study emphasize that the critical role of fathering in forming object relation and defense mechanism during development. In this processing, fathering as a facilitator lead to appropriate representation of reality in child mental structure. So, he can practice proper object relations and mature defense mechanisms
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