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        1 - Examining the Model of Relationship Between Professors' Support for Autonomy and Parental Psychological Control with Critical Thinking through Mediation of Academic Stress Among Female Students
        Karim Sevari Fatemeh Farzadi
        The purpose of this research was to test the model of relationship between professors' autonomy support and parental psychological control with critical thinking through the mediation of academic stress of female students. The statistical population was all female stude More
        The purpose of this research was to test the model of relationship between professors' autonomy support and parental psychological control with critical thinking through the mediation of academic stress of female students. The statistical population was all female students of psychology, educational sciences and counseling at University of Khuzestan province Payam Noor. The research sample subsumed 480 subjects who were selected voluntarily. The research design was correlational. to collect data Belmont, Skinner, Welborn, and Connell's (1988) Teachers' Autonomy Support; Barber's (1996) Parental Psychological Control; Sevari Academic Stress (2019) and Critical Thinking by Wang et al. (2019) questionnaires were implemented. After modifying the proposed model, the findings related to direct relationships showed a negative relationship between professors' support for autonomy and academic stress; positive relationship between parental psychological control and academic stress; There was a negative relationship between parental psychological control and critical thinking, and a significant positive relationship between professors' support for autonomy and critical thinking, but the relationship between academic stress and critical thinking was not significant. The results related to indirect hypotheses showed that the relationship between professors' support of students' autonomy and critical thinking through academic stress and the relationship between parental psychological control and critical thinking through academic stress was significant. Manuscript profile
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        2 - The Criminological Challenge of the Concept Changing of Womanhood
        Atefeh Batyari
        The purpose‌‌ of this study was to examine the criminological challenge of the concept changing of womanhood. The research statistical universe included the whole concepts and texts related to womanhood. The sample consisted of the concept changing of womanhood in the c More
        The purpose‌‌ of this study was to examine the criminological challenge of the concept changing of womanhood. The research statistical universe included the whole concepts and texts related to womanhood. The sample consisted of the concept changing of womanhood in the criminology domain. The research design was descriptive-analytical. Data were collected using documentary and library method. The data were then analyzed, synthesized and summarized. The results showed that the concept of womanhood, was formed based on the social structure of the society. It is a challenging concept and it was not an exception in the transformation rule concerning the time. The concept of womanhood, which was considered as the interpretation of the principles and framework for the woman's identity, had been influenced by the advancement of technology and the exchange of ideas, and in the historical periods, womanhood had taken a different form. The results also indicated that the women's attitudes toward their identities had been changed by moving away from traditional roles and more communication with real and virtual communities. Women who chose different lifestyles as a result of changing perspectives on the concept of womanhood confronted different experiences. The formation of the ideal woman's perspective was sometimes accompanied by an unusual lifestyle that by reinforcing the three variables of available goals, the lack of protection and proximity of the offender provided the context of the victimization. Manuscript profile
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        3 - The Effect of Female Modesty on The Cohesion of the Family and its Impacts on the Pure Life
        Mahya Hakakan Nafiseh Fayazbakhsh Esmat Savadi Mohammad Reza Shahroudi
        The purpose of the present study was to explain the effect of women's modesty on the cohesion of the family and its impacts on the pure life. The research universe was Islamic references related to modesty. The research sample was the concept of female modesty. The desi More
        The purpose of the present study was to explain the effect of women's modesty on the cohesion of the family and its impacts on the pure life. The research universe was Islamic references related to modesty. The research sample was the concept of female modesty. The design of the research was descriptive-analytical. The data collecting was through library-documentary and the information analyzing method was based on the interpretation approach. In such a way that the connection between the concept of "female modesty" and the pure life via reviewing of the religious texts (verses and related narrations), the effects of modesty on the individual, family and the society were explained.  The results showed that the sacred center of the family could provide the ground for the cultivation of modesty if the woman as its main element was an objective model of modesty. In this case, the family would be strengthened and protected from collapse and other numerous damages. The modesty of a woman by strengthening   the family as the cell of the society led the society reaching to pure life. also. Women's modesty plays an effective role in the position of wife and mother, paving the way for individuals, families and society to reach a virtuous life and tasting the taste of a transcendental and pure life to the society. In fact, by adorning the woman and the family with the ornament of modesty, the society moves on the path of happiness and pure life. One of the main consequences of establishing the modesty is that the individual and the society reach a pure life as the best kind of life. Manuscript profile
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        4 - Examining the Stories of Female Immigrant Writers Based on Mikhail Bakhtin's Carnivalesque Theory
        Fatemeh Jafaryan Shervin Khamseh Soheyla Ghasimi tarshizi
        The purpose of this research was to examine the stories of female immigrant writers based on Mikhail Bakhtin's Carnivalesque theory. The research universe included all the stories of female immigrant writers. The sample of the research subsumed the stories of migration More
        The purpose of this research was to examine the stories of female immigrant writers based on Mikhail Bakhtin's Carnivalesque theory. The research universe included all the stories of female immigrant writers. The sample of the research subsumed the stories of migration from Goli Targhi (12 stories) and Firouze Jazayeri Duma (Laughter Without an Accent), which was analyzed based on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of Carnivalesque from Dostoyevsky's book Boutique. The research design was descriptive-analytical. Data gathering was processed based on the collecting of library information, documents, and note taking on index cards, on the basis of characteristics such as carnival actions, chronotope (examination of time-space), architectonics (organization of subject relationships) and heteroglossia (meaning in the situation) and investigation of situations carnivalization of migration in several stories of the mentioned authors. The data were analyzed according to Bakhtin's theory Carnivalesque. The results showed that, in order to achieve harmony in the conditions of time and place and new situation in a carnivalized environment, the immigrants change their behavior and character to harmonize themselves with the new land. Also, in carnival's view, a foreigner was considered another at any time and place, and she/he could not fully accept the identity of the people of the new land. It was also challenging to cope with the culture, language and situation of people from other lands in the works of Goli Targhi and Firuzeh Jazayeri. Both authors had experienced two types of life in the two situations of homeland and immigrated land. The stories of these two writers were a direct and realistic reflection of their lived world. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Cultural and Intellectual Consequences of the Western Civilization Invasion with Emphasis on Iranian Women
        Tahmasb Alipouriani Mina Nazari Seyed Samer Poordanesh
        The recent research purpose was to investigate the cultural and intellectual consequences of the western civilization invasion with emphasis on Iranian women. The statistical universe of the study included all cultural and intellectual consequences of the western civili More
        The recent research purpose was to investigate the cultural and intellectual consequences of the western civilization invasion with emphasis on Iranian women. The statistical universe of the study included all cultural and intellectual consequences of the western civilization invasion. The sample embraced the subjects associated to the impacts of the western civilization invasion on Iranian women. A descriptive-analytical method was applied in the research. The data was collected via the library texts and note taking on the index cards. Then the mutual relationship of the western civilization with culture and thought and western civilization invasion consequences on culture and worldview of Iranian women was analyzed. The results revealed that the thought, culture and western civilization were correlated. And it was not necessarily a liner and longitudinal. On some cases the civilization transition of a pattern to another civilization pattern, would also transfer the latent thought of one to the other one. By western civilization accumulative transition, on the primary step, the Iranian women encountered changes on cultural context through virtue, hijab and Islamic identity and…fadedness. On the next step changes on worldview domain was observed. The impacts of western civilization spread were not merely included Iranian culture and caused the values and Islamic and Iranian traditions to be faded but in the further steps the Iranian worldview was also targeted. Manuscript profile
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        6 - The Effectiveness of Reality Therapy on Worry and Rumination in the Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disability
        Behzad Taghipuor Maryam Toosi Fariba Abdi
        The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of reality therapy on worry and rumination in the mothers of children with intellectual disability. The statistical population was whole client mothers of the children with intellectual disabi More
        The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of reality therapy on worry and rumination in the mothers of children with intellectual disability. The statistical population was whole client mothers of the children with intellectual disability in Ardabil Seyed Hatami comprehensive health clinic in the year 2021. 30 mothers were selected through the purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into two equal experimental and control. Experimental group received 8 weeks of reality therapy 90 minutes each session, and two months later, the follow-up phase was done. During this period, the control group did not receive any intervention. Pennsylvania Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) of Meyer, Miller, Metzqer and Borkovec (1990) and Rumination Response Scale(RRS) of Nolen-Houseman and Moro (1991) were used in pre-test, post-test and follow up to assess the subjects. Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The result showed that reality therapy was effective on worry and rumination. Therefore, it could be said that the reality therapy reduced worry and rumination scores in mothers of children with intellectual disability and the result were consistent in follow-up. Manuscript profile
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        7 - Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Conducted Research on Verse 34 of Surah An-Nisa
        Fatemeh Hajiakbari Sayed Mahdi Rahmati
        The purpose of this research was the qualitative meta-analysis of the conducted researches on the verse 34 of Surah Nisa (chapter of women in the Holy Qur'an). The research universe included the scientific research articles published in the mentioned verse from 2001 to More
        The purpose of this research was the qualitative meta-analysis of the conducted researches on the verse 34 of Surah Nisa (chapter of women in the Holy Qur'an). The research universe included the scientific research articles published in the mentioned verse from 2001 to 2018. The under investigation sample subsumed thirty-three selected research papers from different journals. The research was designed as descriptive- analytical qualitative meta-analysis. To collect data, first, the scientific research articles in the keywords related subject concerning the verse 34 of Surah Nisa , such as striking the women and the men ascendancy were searched and selected in Normagz, Alamnet, and Jama'i Enssani websites. Then the data were extracted. The results showed that most of the selected articles focused on the meaning of the male ascendancy. The most important components of the studies in the scope of verse 34 of Surah Nisa were in terms of the general principles regarding the meaning of striking, the conditions and way of doing it and its necessity or permissibility, the meaning and scope of the “neshuz”, the cultural and social conditions of the commentators in the perception of the verse and or the social historical contexts of the coming down from high on the Holy Qur'an mentioned verse era. The dispersion of the studies also showed that in the years 2015 and 2018 five articles were published apartly concerning the verse 34 of Nisa Sureh; which was the most frequent compared to other years in the statistical universe of the research. Manuscript profile
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        8 - Analyzing the lived Experience of Women in the Weakening of the Family Foundation and Divorce
        Marzieh Malekiha Farshid Aslani Rezvan Bagheri
        The aim of the current research was to analyze the lived experience of married women in the weakening of the family foundation and divorce. The statistical population was all married women who referred to the family court of Isfahan in the spring of 2021. The research s More
        The aim of the current research was to analyze the lived experience of married women in the weakening of the family foundation and divorce. The statistical population was all married women who referred to the family court of Isfahan in the spring of 2021. The research sample was 18 women who were selected by purposive sampling. The design of the current research was qualitative and using the phenomenological method. Qualitative data were collected via semi-structured interviews Thematic analysis method was applied to analyze the data. Results indicated that weakening of the family foundation was under the influence of factors affecting divorce, which included physical violence, psychological violence, financial violence, ineffective communication, breaking the emotional contract in marital relationships, drug addiction and alcohol consumption, psychological issues and problems, emotional issues and problems. Also, the factors of weakening and harming the family foundation embraced dishonesty, extramarital factors affecting divorce and economic hardships. The factors that threaten the family foundation included the employment status of the couple, cultural differences and social status of the couple, and the formation of an undesirable marriage. Manuscript profile