Journal of Educational Psychology: 2 (2)

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1 - The effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on psychological distress, quality of life, and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescents with social anxiety disorder
Fatemeh Ahmadi Maryam Kadkhodaee

  The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on psychological distress, quality of life, and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescents with social anxiety disorder. The research method was quasi-exper More

  The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on psychological distress, quality of life, and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescents with social anxiety disorder. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the research was all the anxious high school students in the academic year 2022-2023 who were referred to one of the psychological counseling and service centers in Ahvaz. The sample size consisted of 30 anxious students who were selected by available and purposeful (targeted) sampling method and according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study.  The experimental group received ten sessions of 120 minutes per week, and the control group was placed on the waiting list. Before and after the intervention, the members of the experimental and control groups answered psychological distress, quality of life, and cognitive regulation of emotion questionnaires.  Data were analyzed by using SPSS software version 22. The result of multivariate and univariate covariance analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of psychological distress, quality of life, and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescents with social anxiety disorder (p <0.001). In other words, emotional schema therapy reduced psychological distress and increased quality of life and cognitive regulation of emotion.  Manuscript profile

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2 - Challenges of applying research findings in education and upbringing in Golestan province
Mohadese Javadi far Negin Jabbari

  The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating and identifying the challenges of applying research findings related to education in Golestan province. The research method was qualitative. The statistical population of this research is all offici More

  The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating and identifying the challenges of applying research findings related to education in Golestan province. The research method was qualitative. The statistical population of this research is all officials related to the field of education research in Golestan province and researchers who have worked in the field of education. The snowball method was used to select the sample, and 10 officials related to education research in the province were selected and semi-structured and in-depth interviews were conducted with them. In this research, with the aim of validating the research process and ensuring the quality of the data and interpretations made, a combination of interpretative research evaluation criteria including reliability, transferability, verifiability, truthfulness, comprehensibility, generality and controllability was used. The results of this research showed the main challenges of applying research findings in Golestan province have four main dimensions. These challenges are in order of importance: Lack of financial credits, lack of budget and opportunities in the economic dimension, Giving less importance to research and the weakness of culture building in trusting the path-breaking of research, the lack of local experts and experts in the cultural dimension, Politicization of education and some legal loopholes in terms of law and politics, Inefficient management of the research field, lack of a coherent information system, lack of a long-term plan and vision for research, concentration of the educational system in the aspect of management and decision-making. Manuscript profile

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3 - The effectiveness of positive thinking training on subjective well-being, functional flexibility and psychological coherence in patients with type 2 diabetes
Nasrin Zabihi Taher Tizdast Mohammadreza Zarbakhsh

   The aim of the present study is the effectiveness of positive thinking training on mental well-being, action flexibility and psychological coherence in patients with type 2 diabetes. This semi-experimental research was pre-test, post-test and follow-up afte More

   The aim of the present study is the effectiveness of positive thinking training on mental well-being, action flexibility and psychological coherence in patients with type 2 diabetes. This semi-experimental research was pre-test, post-test and follow-up after two months. The statistical population includes people with type 2 diabetes who referred to the Mashhad International Diabetes Prevention and Control Foundation in the summer of 2019. Keyes and Magyarmo (2003), Antonovsky's sense of coherence (1987) and Conover and Davidson's (2003) subjective well-being questionnaire were used to collect data. The results of analysis of variance with repeated measurement showed that positive thinking training is effective and lasting on the mental well-being, sense of psychological coherence and action flexibility of people with type 2 diabetes.. Positive thinking training in patients suffering from diabetes strengthens positive personal traits such as courage, sense of aesthetics, foresight, etc. and a new method of provide cognitive processing and regulation of emotions. Manuscript profile

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4 - The effect of reflective leadership with academic optimism on academic procrastination with the mediating role of feeling of belonging to school
Fereshteh Mohammadi Zahra Tanha Razieh Jalili

   This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of reflective leadership with academic optimism on procrastination with the mediating role of sense of belonging to the school among the second secondary students of Khorram Abad city. The More

   This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of reflective leadership with academic optimism on procrastination with the mediating role of sense of belonging to the school among the second secondary students of Khorram Abad city. The descriptive research design was correlational. Sampling of this research was done with the presence of 384 people (235 female, 105 male) using available sampling method among the high school students of Khorramabad city in the academic year of 2021-2022. To measure the variables of the research, the Reflective Leadership Scale in School (SRLS) by Taheri and Taheri (2016), the Academic Optimism Scale (AOS) by Tashanen-Moran et al. (2013), the Academic Procrastination Questionnaire (APQ) by Sawari (2010) and the sense of belonging to school questionnaire (SBSQ) by Brew et al. (2004) were used. Data were analyzed with Pearson's correlation coefficient and structural equations using SPSS and AMOS software version 24. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between school leadership, academic optimism and feeling of belonging to school with procrastination (P<0.01). Also, the results showed that the direct paths of this research were significant and the indirect paths of school leadership and academic optimism were significant through the mediating role of sense of belonging to school on students' academic procrastination. Based on the findings of this research, the final research model had a good fit (RMSEA=0.056 and P-value <0.05). Manuscript profile

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5 - Parenting based on the lived experiences of mothers of hearing impaired students: a phenomenological study
Fatemeh Mortazavi kiasari Reza Donyavi Behrang Esmaeilishad

   The purpose of this research was to explain and identify of lived experiences of mothers of hearing-impaired students. The research method was qualitative and phenomenological. The statistical population consisted of all mothers with hearing-impaired childr More

   The purpose of this research was to explain and identify of lived experiences of mothers of hearing-impaired students. The research method was qualitative and phenomenological. The statistical population consisted of all mothers with hearing-impaired children whose children were enrolled in exceptional primary schools in Sari and Miandorud cities. Purposive sampling method was used until data saturation. The data collection tool was interview. The total reliability is equal to 0.90 by the method of two coders. In order to analyze the data, the seven-step method of Colaizi (1978) was used. Findings from the interviews were classified in 10 main themes including "eliminating the feeling of loneliness in a deaf child"; "Fixing the feeling of despair in a deaf child"; "a lot of interaction with a deaf child"; "Eliminating the feeling of helplessness in a deaf child"; "Fixing the feeling of fatigue in a deaf child", "Emotion control"; "Searching for communication solutions", "Using the experiences of mothers with deaf children"; "Accepting the child's deaf problem"; "Getting a child" and 30 subthemes. Manuscript profile

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6 - The opportunities and threats caused by information technology in promoting reading culture from the perspective of student teachers
setareh Mousavi

In recent years, reading has taken steps backwards against the expansion of the functions of technologies, so the purpose of the present study is to investigate the opportunities and threats caused by information technology in promoting the culture of reading from the p More

In recent years, reading has taken steps backwards against the expansion of the functions of technologies, so the purpose of the present study is to investigate the opportunities and threats caused by information technology in promoting the culture of reading from the perspective of student teachers of Farhangian University of Isfahan. The research method is descriptive, the statistical population includes students and teachers of Farhangian University of Isfahan. Using stratified random sampling method, 342 of them were selected as a sample. The measurement tool, a researcher-made questionnaire, included 46 questions based on a 5-point Likert scale, which measured opportunities and threats in three cognitive, emotional and behavioral areas of reading. The analysis of data showed that the most important cognitive opportunities of technologies are: diversifying educational and leisure-oriented activities, in the emotional field: the desire for appropriate content creation and separation of subjects, and in the behavioral field: diversifying students' free time. The most important threats are in the cognitive field: the weakening of understanding and memorization, in the emotional field: the reduction of thinking and pondering on issues and following unreliable sources in the media, and in the behavioral field, creating an environment of separation from the original teachings of books. Manuscript profile

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