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Zahra Hosseinzadeh Maleki; Simindokht Kalani
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Objective: Crisis management researchers use the World Assumption Scale (WAS) to demonstrate changes in individuals' assumptions to predict mental health risks based on the Janoff-Bulman model. During the COVID-19 quarantine crisis, adopting preventive behaviors in society required understanding individuals' ...
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Objective: Crisis management researchers use the World Assumption Scale (WAS) to demonstrate changes in individuals' assumptions to predict mental health risks based on the Janoff-Bulman model. During the COVID-19 quarantine crisis, adopting preventive behaviors in society required understanding individuals' assumptions about the world, which initially necessitated an examination of the factorial structure of the Assumption World Scale. Therefore, the current research aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Assumption World Scale among Iranian students and to examine the relationship between beliefs in a just world, meaningfulness of the world, self-worth, and the adoption or non-adoption of preventive behaviors among students during the COVID-19 quarantine period. Method: Among the Mashhad Ferdowsi University and University of Isfahan, 452 students aged 18 and older (245 women) selected using convenience sampling and responded to the assumption world scale and the preventive behavior adoption questionnaire. The data analyzed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, exploratory factor analysis, and stepwise regression analysis. Results: The obtained reliability coefficients were satisfactory. The results of the exploratory factor analysis were relatively satisfactory and corresponded to the main model of the assumption world. Bartlett's test of sphericity with 496 degrees of freedom at the 0.001 significance level and the KMO test with a value of 0.84 indicated the adequacy of the data for factor analysis. Exploratory factor analysis using principal component analysis with the assumption of eight factors (based on previous research) showed that all 32 questionnaire items obtained coefficients in the range of 0.53 to 0.85 in different factors, and eight factors had eigenvalues greater than one. Moreover, during the quarantine period, students' assumptions about the world significantly correlated with the adoption of preventive behaviors. Stepwise regression showed that non-randomness and the perception of controllability assumptions predicted adopting preventive behaviors. In the first step, when the randomness scale entered the regression equation, its correlation coefficient was 0.44, indicating that 33% of the variance in the adoption of preventive behaviors based on the belief in the non-randomness of world events was explained. In the second step, when randomness and perceived controllability entered the equation together, this percentage increased to 46%. Conclusion: Quarantine and its expansion increase negative effects on mental health. These findings of the COVID-19 quarantine are consistent with previous assumptions about the lack of change in measurement within a sample and suggest an operational solution, aiding in understanding students' assumption worlds in facing trauma and associated cognitive changes in research and practical domains.
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azade Fathi Dooki; Elahe Fathi Dooki; leila Hassannia; hadi Hassannia
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Objective: Covid-19 pandemic as an acute respiratory disease that emerged in Wuhan, China on 30 January 2020 was declared a public health emergency of international concern. The World Health Organization has introduced this disease as a great threat to physical and mental health because of changing in ...
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Objective: Covid-19 pandemic as an acute respiratory disease that emerged in Wuhan, China on 30 January 2020 was declared a public health emergency of international concern. The World Health Organization has introduced this disease as a great threat to physical and mental health because of changing in families’ normal lifestyle. It has seriously damaged people's mental health due to fear, uncertainty, quarantine measures, staying at home, social isolation, inappropriate information or pouring out news from various media, including social media, etc. With the spread of the Covid-19 disease, various centers including schools and universities were closed, social relations were severely limited, and leisure activities outside the home were canceled or greatly reduced. Virtual training, the suspension of end-of-semester final exams, and the unavailability of books, computers, and low-speed internet at home, affected students' mental health. The students were exposed to a significant risk of adverse consequences of quarantine, such as hopelessness and boredom, and financial loss to the family. Also the change in the daily schedule, including the lack of outdoor activities, disruption of sleep patterns and social distance, has affected the students’ mental health. The aim of the present study was to investigate the psychological consequences of Covid 19 virus on students. Methods: The research findings from the outbreak of Covid 19 during 2019 to 2023 in the PupMed, Science direct, Google Scholar and ProQuest databases were searched through the keywords quarantine, mental health, psychological problems and students. Finally among 70 articles, 34 articles entered the research and the results were summarized and reported. Results: The results showed that post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, fear, practical obsession, social isolation, suicidal ideation, poor sleep quality, mood disorder, social dysfunction, wrong and risky diet, alcohol abuse, interpersonal conflicts, limitations of social communication, lack of concentration and loneliness are among the psychological consequences of Covid 19 virus in students. Conclusion: So it was concluded that due to the negative psychological effects of the corona pandemic on students, it is necessary to plan and implement effective intterventions in order to improve thid future generation of society’s health physical and mentale.
Atefe Mohammadhosseini; Abdulzahra Naami
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of corona disease anxiety in the relationship between trait anxiety with general health and health-promoting lifestyle in students. Method: The statistical population of this study included all female students of Shahid Chamran ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of corona disease anxiety in the relationship between trait anxiety with general health and health-promoting lifestyle in students. Method: The statistical population of this study included all female students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in 2020 who participated in the research online. Then, the participants were asked to complete the Corona Disease Anxiety Scale (Alipour et al., 2019), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory(Spielberger, 1970), General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1972), and Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile (Walker et al., 1987). Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the research model. Also, to investigate the significance of indirect effects of the research model, the bootstrapping method was used. Findings: The results of analysis showed that the proposed model had a good fitness. Also, the direct effects of the model showed the significant effect of trait anxiety on the corona disease anxiety; and the effect of corona disease anxiety was significant general health and health-promoting lifestyle (p< 0.0001). In addition, the results showed that all the indirect effects of the model are significant. Conclusion: According to the results, an trait anxiety can affect general health and health-promoting lifestyle by mediating corona disease anxiety.
Ahmad Alipour; zahra ghanbari Zarandi; akbar jadidi
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Objective: The purpose of this study was discriminating smokers from healthy people based on temperament and cognitive emotion regulation. Method: the present study has been a group classification design. The research population were all of girl and boy students in kerman. The final sample of research ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was discriminating smokers from healthy people based on temperament and cognitive emotion regulation. Method: the present study has been a group classification design. The research population were all of girl and boy students in kerman. The final sample of research was including 200 participants (each group has 100 participants). For collect data used of cloninger's temperament questionnaire and cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (short- form). Findings: in comparison with the healthy group, the mean of novelty seeking and inefficient cognitive emotion regulation was higher and the mean of persistence, self-directedness, reward dependence and co-perativeness was lower in the smoking group. However, there was no significant difference in terms of harm avoidance, self-transcendence and efficient cognitive emotion regulation. Conclusion: considering a person's profile in the Cloninger temperament model and cognitive emotion regulation strategies, it is possible to identify people who are prone to tobacco use and provide them with the necessary training.
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jahangir karami; M.Javad Bagian; khodamorad Momeni; Adele Elahi
Volume 7, Issue 25 , June 2018, , Pages 146-172
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Objective: mental pain is a psychological experience, including negative self-evaluation; therefore, it should be measured by self-report tools. The aim of the present study was to determine factor structure and psychometric properties of Mental Pain Scale.Method: this was correlational study and its ...
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Objective: mental pain is a psychological experience, including negative self-evaluation; therefore, it should be measured by self-report tools. The aim of the present study was to determine factor structure and psychometric properties of Mental Pain Scale.Method: this was correlational study and its statistic population consisted all students of the University of Razi Kermanshah. The sample included 300 of these students selected via multi-stage random cluster sampling method. The data was analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis by SPSS-22 and AMOS-21 software.Result: the results showed a significant positive correlation among components of mental pain, anxiety, depression, and negative cognitive emotional regulation strategies (P≥0.001). Also, a significant positive correlation was found among components of mental pain and self-compassion (P≥0.001). The results of the exploratory factor analysis identified 6 factors, which in total, explained 66.40% of the variance in mental pain. 44 items in 6 factors were validated by confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.966 for the whole MPS, 0.925 for emptiness, 0.893 for emotional flooding, 0.877 for loss of control, 0.872 for irreversibility, 0.869 for self-estrangement, and 0.617 for freezing.Conclusion: Persian version of Mental Pain Scale has acceptable psychometric properties among academic students and can be used as a valid tool in psychological research.
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Alireza Aghayousefi; Hossein Zare; Roghayeh Mohammadi
Volume 6, Issue 24 , March 2018, , Pages 162-179
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Objective: Diabetes leads to loss of cognitive function in patients. The aim of the present study was to study the effect of cognitive computer-based training program on memory and attention increase in students with diabetes. Method: The research was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test ...
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Objective: Diabetes leads to loss of cognitive function in patients. The aim of the present study was to study the effect of cognitive computer-based training program on memory and attention increase in students with diabetes. Method: The research was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design with the control group in which 18 students with diabetes (in two nine-person groups of experimental and control) were selected from Diabetes Association of Bonab city. The memory and attention of both experimental and control groups were measured in the pre-test step. Then, students of the experimental group were exposed to attention and memory improvement exercises individually in 10 half-hour sessions with the help of working memory training software. Once again, in the post-test step, memory and attention of both experimental and control groups were measured. Data were analyzed using covariance analysis. Results: The results indicated an increase in memory function and attention of students in the experimental group and the rehabilitation intervention for guidance and high school students and patients with a history of fewer than 5 years and more than 5 years has been equally effective. Conclusion: We can say that cognitive computer-based training is necessary, useful, and effective for increasing attention and memory function in diabetic students.
