Research Article (Mixed)
Efat Aslani; Reza Vala; Fattah Nazem
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide a model of entrepreneurship-based curriculum in secondary school.Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and integrated (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of implementation method. The research population in the qualitative section ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide a model of entrepreneurship-based curriculum in secondary school.Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and integrated (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of implementation method. The research population in the qualitative section included experts in the field of entrepreneurship in Alborz province in the academic year 2020-2021, in which 14 people were selected based on theoretical saturation method and purposive sampling. The statistical population of the quantitative section also included all secondary school teachers of Alborz planning and entrepreneurship course in the academic year 2020-21 (266 people). The sample size was determined based on Morgan and Georgian table and 154 people were selected by simple random sampling method. The research tool in the qualitative part was semi-structured interviews and in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire based on the findings of the qualitative part. To validate the qualitative data, a recoding strategy and reliability were obtained with a coding agreement coefficient of 0.86. For quantitative findings, face validity and reliability were obtained by Cronbach's alpha method of 0.82. For data analysis, in the qualitative part, the content analysis method was used with Maxquda18 software and in the quantitative part with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling with Smart Pls3 software.Findings: The findings of the qualitative section showed that there are 56 sub-themes and 5 main themes (entrepreneurial knowledge, entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial ability) for the entrepreneurship curriculum. The results of exploratory factor analysis also showed that the first factor, ie the creation of entrepreneurial knowledge explains 6.54 of the total variance, the second factor (entrepreneurial attitude) 7.65%, the third factor (entrepreneurial skills) 12.76% and the fourth factor (entrepreneurial ability) 14.65% explained the total variance of entrepreneurship. The results of structural equation modeling also showed that all identified factors have a significant effect. The GOF criterion also showed that the overall fit of the model was at a desirable level.Conclusion: It can be concluded that a good curriculum should pay attention to the factors of knowledge, skills, attitudes and abilities, and curriculum planners should pay more attention to "creating entrepreneurial ability" and "entrepreneurial skills" in designing the entrepreneurship textbook.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Ali PorFalahati; Majid Zargham Hajebi; Alireza AghaYosefi; Mohamad Hosein Zarghami
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure the constructive validity of authentic educational courage, which in past researches was not paid much attention to it, and this tool was validated in students and graduates of Iran's higher education system.Methodology: The current research in terms ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure the constructive validity of authentic educational courage, which in past researches was not paid much attention to it, and this tool was validated in students and graduates of Iran's higher education system.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population was all the students and graduates of different academic courses of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of the country in 6 provinces of the three northern, middle and southern regions in the 2011-2020 years The sample size of the research subject based on the five dimensions of the mentioned structure, for at least 100 people for each dimension, finally considering the adequacy of the sample size was 636 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The research tool was a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire of authentic educational courage with 23 real final states, which whose psychometric indicators were examined. The data were analyzed and validated by the symmetric rank multidimensional scaling method. The coordinates used to form the distance matrix of the points were taken directly from the output of the network analysis under the lwmds algorithm.Findings: The results of the research showed that according to the opinion of experts and specialists in the authentic educational courage construct, number of 9 states that were not compatible with external objective facts and rational logic were removed from the final questionnaire and finally 23 states out of 32 possible states were kept for it. This tool has five two level dimensions were including dimensions of goal (with two levels of functional learning and mastery learning), cognitive covert action (with two levels without mindfulness/unrealistic evaluation and mindfulness /real evaluation), emotional-functional overt action (with two levels of cowardice and bravely), response continuity (with two levels of non-continuity of response and continuity of response) and originality of response (with two levels of inauthentic/non-integrity of behavior and authentic/integrity of behavior), which whose validity is confirmed by the opinion of experts and specialists and its reliability is supported by the three-dimensional model selected from all the dimension for the exploratory definition of the authentic educational courage construct, after the complete fitting of the mentioned model with the experimental data obtained from the questionnaire items and the membership of each point to one of the levels of the five dimension was confirmed.Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the appropriate validity of the authentic educational courage construct in the studied sample. Therefore, it seems that this tool can be used as a basis for measuring authentic educational courage of learners by experts and researchers, especially in the field of educational sciences.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Sharareh Rezapour; Kiomars Niazazari; Negin Jabbary
Abstract
Purpose: The Covid-19 outbreak has effect almost all aspects of life including education and technology has almost completely replaced the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning environment. The cloud computing is widely used in education, especially in higher education, for online access and ...
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Purpose: The Covid-19 outbreak has effect almost all aspects of life including education and technology has almost completely replaced the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning environment. The cloud computing is widely used in education, especially in higher education, for online access and sharing of educational resources, educational information, notes, lectures and academic assessments. Therefore, this study investigated the paradigmatic pattern of cloud computing adoption in educational institutions by expanding the technology readiness theory.Methodology: This research is of a qualitative type that was conducted by applying the grounded theory. The scope of the study was Golestan province's education department and the statistical population of the research were experts in the field of research, which sampling from them was done in a purposive and snowball sampling methods. The data collection tool in this research was a semi-structured interview that after 13 interviews reached theoretical saturation. To determine the validity, the acceptability criterion was used and to determine the reliability was used the internal agreement method with a value of 76.4%. The data were analyzed through three stages of open, axial and selective coding.Findings: The findings showed that 55 subcategories were identified in 8 main categories with a grounded theory approach; So that for the causal conditions was identified one main category of empowering education managers and teachers, for the background conditions was identified two main categories of strengthening cloud learning infrastructures in organizational education and forming support learning associations, for intervening conditions was identified two main categories of security and trust, for central phenomenon was identified one main category of educational management system, for strategies was identified two main categories of curriculum system development and use of cloud service technology in the field of e-learning and for the consequences was identified on main category of consequences. Finally, the paradigmatic pattern of cloud computing adoption in educational institutions by expanding the technology readiness theory with a grounded qualitative approach was drawn.Conclusion: The paradigmatic pattern of cloud computing adoption in educational institutions by expanding the technology readiness can help specialists and planners of educational systems in improving educational conditions.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Seyyed Khadijeh Jamali; Seyyed Mosa Kafi; Abbas Aboulghasemi; Bahman Akbari
Abstract
Purpose: The forced labor for children has negative cognitive, social and emotional consequences. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of teaching choice theory and inquiry philosophy on social competence and goal orientation of labor children.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: The forced labor for children has negative cognitive, social and emotional consequences. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of teaching choice theory and inquiry philosophy on social competence and goal orientation of labor children.Methodology: The current research was a semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The research population was the labor children of Rasht city in 2021 year. A number of 45 labor children were selected as a sample with using the available sampling method and were assigned in three equal groups by a simple random method with lottery, including the groups of teaching choice theory, teaching inquiry philosophy and control. The first experimental group received 8 sessions of teaching choice theory and the second experimental group received 10 sessions of teaching inquiry philosophy, and the control group did not receive any teaching. The research tools were included questionnaires of social competence (Felner, 2002) and goal orientation (Midgley et al., 1998) and its resulting data were analyzed by methods of univariate and multivariate covariance analysis and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS software.Findings: The findings showed that teaching in both experimental groups in compared the control group led to increase social competence and goal orientation of tendency-mastery, avoidance-mastery, and tendency- performance in labor children (P<0.05), but there was no significance difference between them in the goal orientation of avoidance-performance (P>0.05). Also, there was no significant difference between the experimental groups of teaching choice theory and inquiry philosophy in terms of any of the variables of social competence and goal orientation (P>0.05).Conclusion: According to the results, to improve the social competence and goal orientation of labor children, it is possible to use the teaching methods of choice theory and inquiry philosophy.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
zahra Sadeghloo; Ladan Salimi; Vahid Fallah
Abstract
Purpose: Considering the growing use of digital and non-digital games, the purpose of this study was designing a curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied, in terms of time was ...
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Purpose: Considering the growing use of digital and non-digital games, the purpose of this study was designing a curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied, in terms of time was cross-sectional and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The study population was the experts and specialists of curriculum and educational games, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 14 people of them with the purposive sampling method were selected as a sample. Data were collected by semi-structured interview and analyzed by coding analysis method in MAXQDA software.Findings: The findings showed that the curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers had 79 concepts, 24 subcategories and 11 categories. In this pattern, for curriculum goals were identified 28 concepts, 9 subcategories and 4 categories including child's mental development (with 2 subcategories of improving cognitive skills and mental development), improving child's social and emotional skills (with 2 subcategories of emotional skills and personality and social skills), Improving motivation and readiness (with 2 subcategories of child preparation and child activity) and child's spiritual and cultural development (with 3 subcategories of spiritual growth, cultural growth and general growth and development), for curriculum content were identified 23 concepts, 6 subcategories and 3 categories including cognitive education (with 2 subcategories of academic education and mental skills), social and artistic subjects (with 2 subcategories of social skills and artistic education) and general education and development (with 2 subcategories of general subjects and physical growth), for curriculum teaching and learning methods were identified 18 concepts 5 subcategories and 2 categories including group and active methods (with 3 subcategories of education through games, group education and active methods) and individual and direct methods (with 2 subcategories of artistic method and cognitive method) and for curriculum evaluation were identified 10 concepts, 4 subcategories and 2 categories including passive methods (with 2 subcategories of observation and written methods) and active methods (with 2 subcategories of functional methods and group methods).Conclusion: The results of this study about the curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers can be used by curriculum experts and planners of Farhangian University to improve the game-based curriculum.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Mohhamad Ghasem Shabani; Ahmad Sadeghi; Hajar Torkan
Abstract
Purpose: Academic success and satisfaction is one of the most important variables that can be considered as a serious indicator among students, and through them, the future foundations of students' education can be monitored and examined through them. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness ...
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Purpose: Academic success and satisfaction is one of the most important variables that can be considered as a serious indicator among students, and through them, the future foundations of students' education can be monitored and examined through them. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Savickas academic-career plan training on academic success and satisfaction among university students with academic burnout.
Methodology: The current research method was semi-experimental study which conducted with a pre-test and post-test design along with a control group with a follow-up period. The statistical population included all the students of Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch who referred to the university counseling center in 2020. From them, 30 students were selected by convenience sampling method and then randomly assigned in the experimental group (15 people) and control group (15 people). The data were collected using Welles's Academic Success Questionnaire (2010) and Ahmadi's Academic Satisfaction Questionnaire (2010) in the pre-test, post-test and follow-up stages. Savickas academic-career plan training protocol was performed in 8 sessions (one session per week) for 75 minutes. To analyze the data, repeated measure analysis of variance Bonferroni's post hoc test with SPSS.26 software were used.
Findings: The results indicated that Savickas academic-career plan training was effective in enhancement of academic success and satisfaction of university students with academic burnout (P=0.001), and this effectiveness was permanent until the follow-up period (P=0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of the research, we can draw a conclusion that Savickas academic-career plan training is effective on increase of academic success and satisfaction of university students with academic burnout, therefore this training can be used for university students in university counseling centers.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Saeed Shafahi; Alireza Chenari; Soghra Afkaneh
Abstract
Purpose: Knowledge management plays an important role in the growth and development of various organizations, especially educational organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigating the impact of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities ...
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Purpose: Knowledge management plays an important role in the growth and development of various organizations, especially educational organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigating the impact of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population was all the members of the faculty and teaching staff of the faculties of educational sciences of the Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province in the 2022-2023 academic years with number of 210 people. The research sample based on the Krejcie and Morgan table was estimated to be 160 people, who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of future study development of knowledge management (67 items), whose face validity was confirmed by academic experts and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha method 0.92. Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equations in SPSS version 23 and LISREL version 8.7 software.Findings: The findings showed that the future study development of knowledge management has 67 items in 14 factors and 6 dimensions of organizational structure and information technology infrastructure as causal factors, effective cultural platforms on the development of future study and management strategies as underlying factors, alignment of the university with the changing needs of society and higher education as intervening factors, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, knowledge application and knowledge policies storage as central phenomenon, transformation in the educational system and the institutionalization of foresight and policy making as strategies and the development of organizational awareness and human resource productivity as consequences; So that all factors had a content validity ratio was higher than 0.70, average variance extracted was higher than 0.5, and Cronbach's reliability was higher than 0.80. The model of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province had a good fit. In this model, each of the factors has a direct and significant effect on the underlying factors, and causal factors had a direct and significant effect on the underlying factors, intervening factors and central phenomenon, underlying factors, intervening factors and central phenomenon had a direct and significant effect on the strategies and underlying factors, central phenomenon and strategies had a direct and significant effect on the consequences (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of this study can be used by managers and officials of educational systems, especially in the higher education system with the aim of future study development of knowledge management in order to create a competitive advantage.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Macan Aria Parsa; Mohammad Reza Dalvi Esfahan
Abstract
Purpose: Considering the importance of entrepreneurship in the metaverse era, especially with a future research approach, the present research was conducted with the aim of establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field ...
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Purpose: Considering the importance of entrepreneurship in the metaverse era, especially with a future research approach, the present research was conducted with the aim of establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The research population in the qualitative part was university faculty members and managers of knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology, which number of 17 people of them according to the principle of theoretical saturation were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. The research population in the quantitative part was the employees and managers of knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology in 29 major cities of Iran country with number of 45331 people, which according to Cochran's formula, the sample size was calculated 184 people, and considering the possible losses, 200 people of them were selected as a sample by available sampling method. The research tools in the qualitative and quantitative parts respectively were the semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaire (51 items), which the validity of the interviews was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was calculated by the agreement coefficient method between two coders 0.88, and the face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of experts and its reliability was confirmed by the Cronbach's alpha method was calculated 0.92. The qualitative part data were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding method based on grounded theory in MAXQDA-2018 software and the quantitative part data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS-23 and SMART PLS-4 software.Findings: The findings of the qualitative part showed that the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology had 293 concepts, 47 sub categories and 17 main categories in 6 dimensions; So that the causal conditions dimension were included 11 sub categories in the 4 main categories of balance between opportunity exploration and creating competitive advantage, innovation development, growth prospects and benefiting from scientific and strategic approaches, the background conditions dimension were included 6 sub categories in the 2 main categories of regulatory approach and cognitive-normative approach, the intervening conditions dimension were included 6 sub categories in the 3 main categories of country's macro policies and planning in the issues of employment creation and entrepreneurship in the field of information technology, motivational mobility of material and spiritual issues and organizational dynamics, the central phenomenon dimension were included 5 sub categories in the 2 main categories of organizational structure of entrepreneurship and organizational policies of entrepreneurship, the strategies dimension were included 11 sub categories in the 4 main categories of having strategic thinking, forward-looking actions, improving work processes and using of education and knowledge management and the consequences dimension were included 8 sub categories in the 2 main categories of prosperity and flourishing of economy and targeted community development. Also, the findings of the quantitative part showed that there were 32 missing questionnaires and the quantitative section analyzes were performed for 178 people. Based on the analysis, all the dimensions had a factor load and average variance extracted of higher than 0.50 and reliability of higher than 0.70. In addition to that, the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology had an acceptable fit, and in the mentioned model, the causal conditions on central phenomenon; the central phenomenon, background conditions and intervening conditions on strategies and strategies on outcomes had a direct and significant effect (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of the current research about the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology have many practical implications for experts and planners of knowledge-based companies, especially in the field of information technology, and they based on the results of this research can take an effective step towards job creation and establishing an entrepreneurial in the metaverse era.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Hadi Abedzadeh; Amineh Ahmadi; mojtaba moazzami
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management in the youth of Zanjan province.Methodology: The qualitative research method is applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the analysis method, it was implemented ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management in the youth of Zanjan province.Methodology: The qualitative research method is applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the analysis method, it was implemented with the paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin (1990-1998). The statistical population includes 15 experts in the field of university education and university elites who were selected by targeted and accessible sampling method. The data collection tool includes two parts, library method and interview (text review and semi-structured interview with experts). For data analysis, open, central and selective coding based on foundational data theory and MAXQDA 2020 software was used.Findings: The results showed that the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management among the youth of Zanjan province were identified and extracted in 5 main categories of foundation data and 15 components, which include causal conditions (family factors, individual factors, attractions of cyberspace and lack of media literacy), contextual conditions (social conditions, cultural environment), intervening conditions (social policies, unemployment and poverty), strategies (social participation, family education, life skills training and cultural and sports facilities) and consequences (improving mental health , increasing the number of employees, management of virtual space).Conclusion: Internet not only has many uses in daily life; Rather, it has special and unique features that increase its attractiveness a hundredfold, and it leads to addiction to the Internet, tolerance, withdrawal, emotional disturbances, and cutting off social relations by keeping people away from social relations, causing depression and loneliness in them, as a result, with Establishing courses in order to educate families with the culture of optimal use of smart phones and equipment, in order to prevent disappointment, depression and loneliness in order to prevent cyber addiction in young people.
Research Article (Mixed)
Social Sciences
Moosa Moghadas; Parivash Jafari; Mohammad Noor Rahmani; Nader Gholi Ghoorchian
Abstract
Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was ...
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The statistical population of this study was all 950 school principals in Fars province, which based on Cochran's formula 365 principals by stratified random sampling method were selected as a sample. The data were collected with a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire for promoting positive leadership among school principals (30 items), which its validity and reliability of were assessed as suitable, and for their analysis were used from exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and AMOS software.Findings: The findings showed that promoting positive leadership among school principals had 30 items in 3 dimensions of individual (11 items), organizational (13 items) and environmental (6 items); So that the factor loading of all 30 items and all dimensions was higher than 0.40, their average extracted variance was higher than 0.50, and their Cronbach's alpha and combination were higher than 0.70. Also, the fit indices of the promoting positive leadership model among school principals indicated the acceptable fit of the mentioned model and this model had a direct significant effect on all three dimensions of individual, organizational and environmental (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, educational systems and schools in order to achieve goals and achieve competitive advantage can provide the basis for improving individual, organizational and environmental of positive leadership among school principals through the items of each of them.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Zahra Sadr; Fatemeh Sadat Hosseini; Mojtaba Hemayatkhah; Mohamadreza Masjedi
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of awareness training on the harms of smoking based on the cognitivism theory on raising the awareness of female health activists about smoking and its negative consequences.Methodology: The present study was a semi-experimental ...
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Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of awareness training on the harms of smoking based on the cognitivism theory on raising the awareness of female health activists about smoking and its negative consequences.Methodology: The present study was a semi-experimental project with a pre-test/post-test design on a group of subjects. The statistical population included women active in the field of health in 22 districts of the Tehran Municipality during 2018 and 2019 (with a total of 862 people). The sample size included 456 women who were selected by purposive sampling from among the participants in a workshop, which was held in one session in each district for three hours. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire to evaluate the awareness of the harms of tobacco products, which was adjusted using face validity, and the reliability of the questionnaire was determined through Cronbach’s alpha, which was at an acceptable rate of 0.755. Due to the non-normality of the distribution of the statistical population according to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the pre-test and post-test changes by the SPSS software (SPSS Inc., SPSS version 26).Findings: Findings showed that after the educational intervention, there were significant differences between the following indicators: awareness of the effects of second-hand smoke on fetuses, infants, children, and pregnant women, the harms of smoking for men and women, hookah compared to cigarettes, tobacco-induced cancers, and the average awareness of second- and third-hand tobacco smoke (p < 0.05). No significant difference was observed in the index of awareness of hookah and cigarette second-hand smoke (p = 0.621).Conclusion: The educational intervention about tobacco use and its harms improved women’s awareness of the harms of tobacco, and health professionals can use the mentioned intervention method.
Research Article (Qualitative)
Psychology
Manouchehr Lerni; Mohammad Reza Beliad; Parisa Iran Nejad; Alireza Mohammadi Nejad Ganji
Abstract
Purpose: To face with natural hazards needed to crisis management and organizational resilience in this field. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identifying the dimensions and components of organizational resilience of crisis management in the university centers to face with natural hazards.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: To face with natural hazards needed to crisis management and organizational resilience in this field. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identifying the dimensions and components of organizational resilience of crisis management in the university centers to face with natural hazards.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was exploratory from type of qualitative. The population of this study were all faculty members of university centers of Karaj city, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 12 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposive sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured interview, which its validity was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was obtained by the agreement coefficient method between two coders 0.89. Data were analyzed by thematic analysis method in MAXQDA software.Findings: The findings showed that for the organizational resilience of crisis management in the university centers to face with natural hazards were identified 12 minor categories, 12 sub categories and 3 main categories. In this study, the main categories were include the individual dimension (with 2 sub categories of the psychological component of resilience and creativity and innovation), the structural dimension (with 6 sub categories of the resilience planning component, adaptive component, commitment and management, crisis culture, learning culture and leadership and decision-making), and the operational dimension (with 4 sub categories of knowledge use, communication, public effective participation and operational cognition of resources and equipment). In the end, the pattern of dimensions and components of organizational resilience of crisis management in the university centers to face with natural hazards were drawn.Conclusion: According to the results of the present research about the dimensions and components of organizational resilience of crisis management in the university, centers to face with natural hazards can prepare the ground for the realization of the identified categories to improve the organizational resilience of crisis management to face with natural hazards.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Ali Esmaeli; Seyyed Olia Emadian; Galin Mahdinejad Gorji; Fatemeh Soghra Sina
Abstract
Purpose: Aggression in male adolescent is a common phenomenon and addiction to electronic games can increase their aggression. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determine the effectiveness of short-term cognitive behavioral therapy on aggression in male adolescent with PUBG ...
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Purpose: Aggression in male adolescent is a common phenomenon and addiction to electronic games can increase their aggression. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determine the effectiveness of short-term cognitive behavioral therapy on aggression in male adolescent with PUBG game addiction.
Methodology: This research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The research population was male adolescent referred to the computer game clubs of Sari city in 2021 year, who among them number of 30 people after checking the inclusion criteria were selected as a sample with the purposive sampling method and by simple random method with the help of lottery were assigned into two equal groups (each group 15 people). The experimental group received eight sessions of 90 minute for two months (one session per week) the short-term cognitive behavioral therapy based on Stark and Kendall's model (1996), and during this period the control group did not receive any training. The research tools were included the D'Souza et al's PUBG addiction test (2019) and the Buss and Perry's aggression questionnaire (1992), which their psychometric indicators were appropriate and desirable. Data were analyzed by univariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS version 26 software.
Findings: The findings of the present research showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of aggression in male adolescent with PUBG game addiction. In the other words, short-term cognitive behavioral therapy reduced aggression in male adolescent with PUBG game addiction (P<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the results of the present research, i.e., the effectiveness of short-term cognitive behavioral therapy on reducing aggression in male adolescent with PUBG game addiction, to reduce emotional problems of adolescents such as aggression can be used short-term cognitive behavioral therapy along with other treatment methods.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Reza Manzari Tavakoli; Zahra Mahdavi Nasab Barfe; Fahimeh Dehghan Dolati; Fatemeh Moslehi
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching the basics of choice theory on enthusiasm for school and psychological toughness of elementary school boys.
Methodology: The purpose of this research was applied, and in terms of the method of implementation, it ...
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Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching the basics of choice theory on enthusiasm for school and psychological toughness of elementary school boys.
Methodology: The purpose of this research was applied, and in terms of the method of implementation, it was a semi-experimental pre-test and post-test with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all the male students of the elementary school in Kerman city in the academic year of 2021. 30 people were selected as available samples and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (15 people) and control group (15 people) by lottery method. The research tools included Glaser's choice theory basics training intervention (2015), Viga School Enthusiasm Questionnaire (2016) and Kubasa's stubbornness questionnaire (1979). The intervention sessions of training the basics of selection theory (during 2 and a half months and 10 sessions) were implemented for the experimental group, and no training was provided to the control group during this period. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and covariance analysis with SPSS-24 software were used for data analysis.
Findings: The findings showed that after teaching the basics of selection theory, the enthusiasm for school and the psychological toughness of the experimental group increased significantly compared to the control group (p <0.01). The results of univariate covariance analysis also showed that teaching the basics of choice theory had an effect of 0.47 on enthusiasm for school and 0.53 on psychological toughness.
Conclusion: According to the results of this research, teaching the basics of selection theory can be used to increase the enthusiasm for school and the psychological toughness of elementary school boys.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Zahra Ghasemzadeh; Hosein Bigdeli; Mohammad Bagher Hobbi
Abstract
Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the difference in the effectiveness of perceptual-motor training and working memory on listening processing and reading comprehension in children with learning disabilities.
Methodology: The present research method is semi-experimental ...
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the difference in the effectiveness of perceptual-motor training and working memory on listening processing and reading comprehension in children with learning disabilities.
Methodology: The present research method is semi-experimental and the design used in this research (two-group pre-test-post-test design) is two experimental groups. The statistical population of this research included all fifth and sixth grade children with learning disabilities who referred to counseling centers in 2022. 30 children with learning disabilities who met the criteria for entering the research were selected by available sampling method and were equally and randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group. The first experimental group underwent active memory training including 16 training sessions and the second experimental group underwent perceptual-motor training in 16 sessions and the control group remained waiting without any intervention during this period. The research tools include Fisher's list of hearing problems and Cloze's test. The data analysis of this research was done in two descriptive and inferential parts (covariance analysis) using SPSS-23 software.
Findings: The results showed that both perceptual-motor training and active memory interventions are effective on auditory processing and reading comprehension in children with learning disabilities, and there is a significant difference between the effectiveness of these two treatments in the components of discrimination and auditory acuity. Based on this, it can be said that the rate of increase in the perceptual-motor training group in the components of discrimination and listening acuity was higher than that of the working memory training group. Also, the results indicated that there is no significant difference between the components of auditory processing and reading comprehension in the post-test stage compared to the follow-up stage, which means that the effectiveness of these two treatments in the follow-up stage has been permanent.
Conclusion: perceptual-motor training and active memory played a significant role on auditory processing and reading comprehension in children with learning disabilities and led to improvement in these children.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Mahdi Falahi; Ali Mohammad Rezaei; Mohammadagha Delavarpour
Abstract
Purpose: Adult participation in the learning and have motivation to learn are among the main elements of andragogy theory in adult education. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the necessity and how to employees’ participation in the pre-training processes ...
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Purpose: Adult participation in the learning and have motivation to learn are among the main elements of andragogy theory in adult education. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the necessity and how to employees’ participation in the pre-training processes in the andragogy model.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was the employees of Petrochemical Company of Asaluyeh Pardis of Bushehr province, which number of 15 people of its middle managers and experts were selected as a sample according to the principle of theoretical saturation with the purposive sampling method. The data were collected by semi-structured interview and analyzed by the method of coding based on grounded theory in MAXQDA version 18 software.Findings: The findings showed that the employees’ participation in the pre-training processes in the andragogy model has 556 open codes in 8 categories including the current and continuousness of the needs assessment process, creativity of educational planning processes, attractiveness of pre-training activities, involvement and participation of learners in planning and compiling content, regular and continuous informing of training process, aligning the needs of learners with the needs of organization, educational planning based on the career development and collaborative organizational culture. Also, based on the grounded theory, the motivation to participate in learning were identified as a central category, the current and continuousness of the needs assessment process, educational planning based on the career development and involvement and participation of learners in planning and compiling content were identified as a causal category, the collaborative organizational culture, attractiveness of pre-training activities and creativity of educational planning processes were identified as a background category, the regular and continuous informing of training process were identified as a mediating category, the aligning the needs of learners with the needs of organization were identified as a strategy category and participation in training were identified as a consequence category.Conclusion: According to the identified categories for employees’ participation in the pre-training processes in the andragogy model it is possible to provide the basis for improving employee participation in training.
Research Article (Mixed)
Psychology
Hava Motamedi barabadi; Masoumeh Samadi; Mohammad Reza Sarmadi; Mahdi Mahmoudi
Abstract
Purpose: Moral education is an important topic that has been studied in many PhD theses of education philosophy field. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to exploration the PhD theses of education philosophy field of government universities in the field of moral education.
Methodology: This study ...
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Purpose: Moral education is an important topic that has been studied in many PhD theses of education philosophy field. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to exploration the PhD theses of education philosophy field of government universities in the field of moral education.
Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was the PhD theses of education philosophy field of government universities in the 1991 to 2020 years with number 263 cases, which 31 cases were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method and based on the abstract and keywords related to the field of moral education. The data were collected by taking notes from PhD theses of education philosophy field and were analyzed by inductive method.
Findings: The findings showed that the exploration the PhD theses of education philosophy field of government universities in the field of moral education indicated that the theses were located in the 6 areas include comparing the views of Muslim thinkers with the views of Western thinkers, moral education based on the opinion of Islam, moral education based on the opinions of Muslim thinkers, moral education based on the opinion of western thinkers, designing the pattern of moral education in the schools and other subjects which most of them compared the views of Muslim thinkers with the views of Western thinkers. All theses had a dual nature and numbers of 17 theses were examined moral education with a theoretical and abstract view and numbers of 14 theses were examined moral education with a functional and practical view.
Conclusion: Examining PhD theses of education philosophy field of government universities in the field of moral education helps to better understand of moral education and clearly shows the existing gaps. Also, the theses did not have the necessary and sufficient compliance with the needs and issues of society and educational needs, and no theses were found on the pathology of moral education in the society and educational system. These results can have many practical implications for specialists, planners and university professors in the education philosophy field and provide the basis for further research and application of the results.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Farshad Ferdosi; Najmeh Vakili
Abstract
Purpose: Absolutism is rooted in naturalistic thinking and absolutists believe that certain principles and concepts are fixed in different cultures. The self-esteem and differentiation can impact on the beliefs of absolutism in order to educational cultural pathology of adolescents, therefore, the present ...
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Purpose: Absolutism is rooted in naturalistic thinking and absolutists believe that certain principles and concepts are fixed in different cultures. The self-esteem and differentiation can impact on the beliefs of absolutism in order to educational cultural pathology of adolescents, therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of modeling self-esteem and differentiation with the mediation of responsibility on absolutism in order to educational cultural pathology of adolescents.Methodology: The current research was descriptive from type of correlation. The research population was secondary high school students of Tehran, which 385 people of them were selected as a sample by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tools were researcher-made questionnaires of self-esteem, differentiation, responsibility and absolutism, which their face validity was confirmed by experts' opinion and their reliability was obtained above 0.80 by Cronbach's alpha method. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling in SPSS and AMOS software.Findings: The findings showed that the model of self-esteem and differentiation with the mediation of responsibility on absolutism had a good fit. In the mentioned model, self-esteem and differentiation had a direct and significant effect on responsibility, self-esteem, differentiation and responsibility had a direct and significant effect on absolutism, and self-esteem and differentiation with the mediation of responsibility had an indirect and significant effect on absolutism (P<0.05).Conclusion: The results indicated the effective role of self-esteem and differentiation with the mediation of responsibility on absolutism. Therefore, planners and specialists of adolescent educational cultural activities in order to reduce absolutism can seek to design and implement programs to improve self-esteem, differentiation and responsibility.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Mahsa Tajali; Ahmad Basabri; Hassan Asadzadeh
Abstract
Purpose: There are many intervention methods to improve children's psychological characteristics, which in this study attempt to compare the two methods of play therapy and problem solving training. As a result, the aim of this study was to comparing the effectiveness of play therapy and problem solving ...
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Purpose: There are many intervention methods to improve children's psychological characteristics, which in this study attempt to compare the two methods of play therapy and problem solving training. As a result, the aim of this study was to comparing the effectiveness of play therapy and problem solving training on responsibility, distress tolerance and adjustment of 5-7-year-old children.Methodology: This study was a semi-experimental with a pretest, posttest and two-month follow-up design with experimental and control groups. The research population was 5-7-year-old children who referred to counseling and psychological services centers and clinics of Tehran city in 2021 year. Among the members of the population, 45 people were selected by available sampling method and replaced by simple random with the help of lottery in three equal groups including play therapy, problem solving training and control groups. The first experimental group trained 10 sessions with the play therapy method and the second experimental group trained 10 sessions with the problem solving training method and the control group during this period did not receive any training. The data were collected with the California responsibility inventory (Gough, 1951), distress tolerance scale (Simons and Gaher, 2005) and adjustment scale (Matson et al, 1983) and were analyzed with the methods of analysis variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS software.Findings: The findings showed that both methods of play therapy and problem solving training in compared to the control group improved responsibility, distress tolerance and adjustment of 5-7-year-old children and the results remained in the follow-up phase (P<0.001). Also, there was no significant difference between the two methods of play therapy and problem solving training in improving responsibility, distress tolerance and adjustment of 5-7-year-old children in the posttest and follow-up phases (P>0.05).Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the effectiveness of both methods of play therapy and problem solving training on improving responsibility, distress tolerance and adjustment of 5-7-year-old children. Therefore, therapists, psychologists and counselors along with other treatment methods can use both methods of play therapy and problem solving training for their interventions.
Research Article (Qualitative)
Social Sciences
Hamed Derakhshani; Nader Soleimani; Hamid Shafizadeh
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers in Semnan province and to provide a model.
Methodology: Research in terms of applied purpose; In terms of data type, it was qualitative and in terms of implementation method, it was thematic analysis. ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers in Semnan province and to provide a model.
Methodology: Research in terms of applied purpose; In terms of data type, it was qualitative and in terms of implementation method, it was thematic analysis. The statistical population included school teachers, senior education directors and university professors who were sampled by snowball method. The instrument used was a semi-structured interview which was analyzed by data analysis method. To determine the internal cheerfulness of the findings, the data were matched with theoretical and background bases and interviews with experts were used. To confirm the accuracy of the data, the study method was used by the research members to determine the external validity of the findings.
Findings: Theoretical saturation and triangulation techniques were used. Data analysis resulted in identifying 91 basic themes, 15 organizing themes and 5 comprehensive themes that were divided into two main categories of main and secondary themes. Together, these themes formed a coherent model for reducing the cheerfulness of teachers in Semnan province. Finally, the reasons for the decrease in teachers' cheerfulness, including 5 categories of comprehensive themes, including individual factors, organizational factors, cultural factors, extra-organizational factors and job factors were obtained.
Conclusion: Paying special attention to the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers and addressing them in order to eliminate the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers, can restore some cheerfulness to the teacher community.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Hamid Teheri; Davoud Kiakojuri; Mehran Mokhtari; Behzad Farrokh Seresht
Abstract
Purpose: Effective team building helps to promote cooperation, communication and trust between team members and is critical to the success of any organization, especially in multinational organizations. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of qualitatively designing and explaining ...
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Purpose: Effective team building helps to promote cooperation, communication and trust between team members and is critical to the success of any organization, especially in multinational organizations. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of qualitatively designing and explaining of effective team building in active multinational organizations in Iran.
Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The statistical population of this research included experts in the field of public administration and organizational behavior in the field of team building and had work experience in multinational organizations. According to the principle of theoretical saturation, the sample size was estimated to be 15 people, who were selected by targeted and snowball sampling methods. The tool of the current research was a semi-structured interview, which its validity was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was calculated by the Cohen's kappa coefficient method 0.719. The data were analyzed by the coding method based on the grounded theory in MAXQDA 2020 software.
Findings: The findings of the current research showed that effective team building in active multinational organizations in Iran in the causal factors section there were 12 indicators in 3 concepts of learning capabilities, team knowledge and identification of effective teams, in the background factors section there were 11 indicators in 3 concepts of team thinking, effective competitive processes and competitive effectiveness in the organization team, in the intervening factors section there were 14 indicators in 3 concepts of technical structure of effective teams, environmental uncertainty and organizational risks, in the central factors section there were 15 indicators in 3 concepts of value chain in team building, capabilities of effective teams and team building intelligence and export, in the strategic factors section there were 12 indicators in 3 concepts of team value creation, development of team competition and team competitive agility and in the consequence factors section there were 11 indicators in 3 concepts of organizational team effectiveness, promotion of dynamic capabilities of effective teams and development of team competitiveness. According to the aforementioned findings, the pattern of effective team building in active multinational organizations in Iran was designed and drawn in the MAXQDA 2020 software.
Conclusion: According to the identified codes in the current research for effective team building in active multinational organizations in Iran according to the grounded theory, it is suggested to improve the situation of effective team building, especially in multinational organizations provide the basis for improving the identified indicators and concepts.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Hadis Parhizgari; Gholamreza Talischi; Zeinab Toolabi
Abstract
Purpose: The main goal of this research is to identify the environmental factors that influence the formation of creative ability of 7-11-year-old students in Ilam city.
Methodology: The present research is of a mixed exploratory type (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of its practical purpose. ...
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Purpose: The main goal of this research is to identify the environmental factors that influence the formation of creative ability of 7-11-year-old students in Ilam city.
Methodology: The present research is of a mixed exploratory type (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of its practical purpose. In the qualitative stage, using the qualitative method of theme analysis based on the opinions of research experts (selected in a purposeful way), the evaluation and identification of environmental patterns effective on the formation of creative ability in students have been evaluated, and the results of the theme analysis are four patterns of natural and artificial elements of the environment. , the natural structural characteristics of the environment, the determining factors of environmental behavior and the physical dimensions of the space were presented for the proposed qualitative model. In line with the results of the theme analysis, a researcher-made scenario regarding the influence and influence of the identified patterns on the formation of students' creative ability has been used using the fuzzy Dimetal technique.
Findings: The findings showed that the adaptability component that has the highest amount of D+R is the most interactive. It has the same relationship with other indicators as well as the heat and humidity component which has the highest D-R value; It has the greatest influence on other indicators. Also, in the same dimensions, the dimension of physical-spatial factors) has the most interaction with other dimensions, and also the dimension (determining factors of environmental behavior) that has the most influence on other dimensions.
Conclusion: The environment is considered as an important factor in creating the fields of learning and creativity.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Parisa Safamanesh; Kourosh Parsa Moein; Soghra Afkaneh
Abstract
Purpose: The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying and evaluating the dimensions of the research system in higher education.
Methodology: In terms of the purpose, this research is fundamental-applied and also, in terms of the type of data, it is mixed (qualitative-quantitative) ...
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Purpose: The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying and evaluating the dimensions of the research system in higher education.
Methodology: In terms of the purpose, this research is fundamental-applied and also, in terms of the type of data, it is mixed (qualitative-quantitative) of the exploratory type, which was thematic analysis in the qualitative part and descriptive-survey in the quantitative part. The population studied in the qualitative section included academic (faculty members) and organizational (responsible for Islamic Azad Universities) experts, and in the quantitative section it included all academic faculty members of Islamic Azad Universities. The sample size in the qualitative section was 19 interviewees according to the principle of saturation and the purposeful sampling method, and in the quantitative section, 272 people were selected based on the calculation of the sample size in structural equations and the stepwise cluster random sampling method. To collect information, two documentary (library) and field methods were used: semi-structured interviews and a researcher-made questionnaire. Also, the answer was taken from a closed questionnaire from the model presented in the qualitative section, which was designed to measure the opinion of experts regarding the validity of the model (external validity). The method of data analysis in the qualitative part of theoretical coding was derived from thematic analysis method with Maxqda software. In the quantitative part, also, in the inferential part to answer the research questions from tests such as Pearson correlation, sample t-test, hierarchical analysis process and confirmatory factor analysis using SPSS-v23, Smart Pls-v3 software. and Lisrel V8.8 and Expertchoice-V11 were used.
Findings: The data collection tools were semi-structured interviews in the qualitative part and researcher-made questionnaires in the quantitative part. The validity and reliability of the instruments were examined and confirmed. The method of data analysis in the qualitative part was theoretical coding (open, central and selective) and in the quantitative part included descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation, sample t-test and structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis).
Conclusion: The findings of the qualitative section showed that the research system includes the dimensions of individual factors, infrastructural factors, and policy making. Also, the results showed that the components in the existing condition have a favorable condition.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Maryam Reyhani; Davoud Manavipour; Mojtaba Sedaghati Fard
Abstract
Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of Network data analysis application in drawing the communication network to measure evolution in middle childhood.
Methodology: The present horoscope was a descriptive-analytical psychometric study. The socio-statistics of the present study were ...
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of Network data analysis application in drawing the communication network to measure evolution in middle childhood.
Methodology: The present horoscope was a descriptive-analytical psychometric study. The socio-statistics of the present study were all students of Tehran city in elementary school (6 to 12 years old) in the academic year of 2019-2020. The sample was 585 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Middle childhood development questionnaire was used to collect data. The data was analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis of the five-factor structure (flexibility, intimacy and friendship, separation times, physical health and empathy). The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient.
Findings: In this research, 585 people were selected as a sample group in the form of multi-stage clusters. The research tool was measuring the transformation in middle childhood. The methods of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, criterion validity, convergent-divergent validity were used to check the validity of the scale, and reliability was checked with two methods of internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) and stability of results (retest) with a two-week interval. Exploratory factor analysis using principal component analysis and varimax rotation led to the extraction of 5 factors (empathy, flexibility, intimacy and friendship, physical health and leisure time).
Conclusion: The results of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the results of exploratory factor analysis. The reliability analysis of the test showed that the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the subscales is higher than 0.7. Also, in all subscales, the Pearson correlation coefficient between the two implementations was higher than 0.85. The correlation between the subscales of measuring the development in the middle childhood period confirmed the convergent evidence of the questionnaire. Based on the results of the research, research evidence supports the simultaneous examination and consideration of all five subscales of the Persian version of the Middle Childhood Development Assessment.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Azar Jozan; Mohammad Ali Fardin; Gholamreza Sanagooe Moharer
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of coping skills training on resilience of students who have recovered from the Corona epidemic.
Methodology: The study method was semi-experimental in the form of pre-test-post-test and follow-up design with two experimental ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of coping skills training on resilience of students who have recovered from the Corona epidemic.
Methodology: The study method was semi-experimental in the form of pre-test-post-test and follow-up design with two experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all female students between the ages of 12 and 17 who had recovered from corona disease and were studying in the academic year of 2020-2021 in Bam city. The sampling method was available, and with this method, 30 students who went to the hospital because of the corona disease and their recovery was confirmed by the tests and the doctor, were selected as a sample and randomly divided into two groups of 15 people, the test and were controlled. The tools used was in this research include Connor & Davidson-Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). The data were analyzed in the SPSS software environment using the analysis of covariance test.
Findings: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the pre-test, post-test and follow-up in resilience variables.
Conclusion: Based on the findings, coping skills training can be used as an effective intervention method to improve the problems of people who have been freed from or involved in various diseases and can reduce their psychological problems.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Amin Akbarpour; Narges Saeidian Khorasgani; Mohammad Ali Nadi Khorasgani
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to present and validate the model of prevention of procrastination among employees of Islamic Azad University
Methodology: The present research was conducted with the qualitative method of phenomenology, in order to identify the procrastination employees ...
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Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to present and validate the model of prevention of procrastination among employees of Islamic Azad University
Methodology: The present research was conducted with the qualitative method of phenomenology, in order to identify the procrastination employees of Islamic Azad University, first all employees of Islamic Azad University in the year (2019-20) were considered, then using the multi-stage cluster random sampling method, A total of 384 people were selected as a sample for the initial investigation, and by implementing Takman's procrastination questionnaire (1991) on these people, finally, 25 qualified people were identified for this research. The research tool was a semi-structured interview, and the data reached theoretical saturation up to the number of 15 people. Data analysis was done based on the 7-step method of Claisey. To measure the validity of the data, two methods of review of participants and review of non-participating experts were used in the research.
Findings: The revealed findings were 179 extracted key terms (primary concepts), 292 secondary concepts (first category), 32 secondary concepts (second category) and 3 main concepts (dimensions). In order to confirm the reliability of the qualitative findings, a scale with a 3-option spectrum was used to measure the content validity ratio (Lavache coefficient estimation) and in order to ensure the reliability of the qualitative findings, the Holstein reliability coefficient was estimated at 0.97. The findings showed that the employee procrastination prevention model consists of 3 main dimensions including organizational dimension (with 14 components), individual dimension (with 15 components) and social dimension (with 3 components).
Conclusion: The findings showed that, according to the prevention model, the components of the organizational dimension include carrying out planning in affairs, promoting empowering training, strengthening the management system, improving financial affairs, improving the implementation of affairs, a healthy and appropriate organizational atmosphere, and promoting culture. Participation, the presence of motivational leadership, improvement of monitoring and evaluation, improvement of organization in the organization, appropriate legislation, appropriate software support, and healthy and appropriate communication in the organization.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Maryam Souri; Mohammad Mojtabizadeh; Rasoul Davoudi
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the current research was to identify and validate the explanatory components of support in Iran's secondary education system.
Methodology: The research method was qualitative-quantitative, the statistical population of the qualitative section was experts and specialists in the ...
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Purpose: The purpose of the current research was to identify and validate the explanatory components of support in Iran's secondary education system.
Methodology: The research method was qualitative-quantitative, the statistical population of the qualitative section was experts and specialists in the field of learning-teaching, teaching methods and building support and written documents related to the subject, including articles and scientific researches and related books authored and in the quantitative part, the teachers of the first and second year of high school were all over the country. In the qualitative part, using the snowball sampling method until reaching theoretical saturation, an in-depth interview was conducted with 13 experts, and 18 documents (texts) were examined with a targeted method for documents, and in the quantitative part, to evaluate the model, a researcher-made questionnaire with 134 Likert scale items was distributed among 384 people with a multi-stage relative cluster sampling method. To determine the validity and reliability in the qualitative phase of the necessary checks including acceptability (review by experts) and verifiability (re-review by experts) and in the quantitative phase, the validity of the questionnaires was verified by three methods: formal, content and structural. The method of determining factor loadings of items, Cronbach's alpha of components (between 0.749 and 0.864) and composite reliability (between 0.827 and 0.916) were confirmed. Qualitative data were analyzed through theoretical background and quantitative data with structural equation modeling technique and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis tests in Smart PLS software and Friedman test in SPSS software.
Findings: The results of the qualitative part indicated that the pattern of support in Iran's secondary education system includes 10 categories (development of human and non-human resources, improvement and development of the educational system, teaching-learning methods, culture and communication, laws and supportive behaviors, performance monitoring, strategies based on cognition and metacognition, strategies based on motivation, mental progress and scientific progress), 21 subcategories (development of human resources, empowerment of students, development of hardware and software facilities, cooperative and interactive teaching , task simplification, virtual learning, teaching based on scientific theories, culture building between parents and teachers, effective communication, supportive behaviors, internal and external strategies and instructions, mental and academic engagement, continuous assessment, metacognitive strategies, cognitive strategies , cognitive and metacognitive strategies, motivational strategies, mental well-being, actualization of potential talents, improvement of learning process and academic progress) and 134 indicators that are in the form of causal, contextual, interventional conditions, strategies and consequences in the research paradigm model. took place The results of the quantitative part showed that all the components of the research model were confirmed.
Conclusion: Based on the obtained data and based on the results of the research, suggestions are presented as follows: - strengthening the causal conditions, - strengthening the environmental conditions, strengthening the intervention conditions, strengthening the strategy (solution).
Research Article (Mixed)
Davood Hosseini; Bahareh Naseri; Ali Payan
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this research was to explain the factors affecting the establishment of a knowledge-based city in less developed areas (case study: Zahedan city).Methodology: The mixed research method (qualitative-quantitative) was exploratory. In the qualitative part, the method was grounded ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research was to explain the factors affecting the establishment of a knowledge-based city in less developed areas (case study: Zahedan city).Methodology: The mixed research method (qualitative-quantitative) was exploratory. In the qualitative part, the method was grounded theory and in the quantitative part, it was descriptive-survey. In the qualitative section, the community consisted of academic experts in the field of management, managers of knowledge-based companies, managers of the Sistan and Baluchistan Governorate and Zahedan Municipality, and in the quantitative section, there were employees of the Sistan and Baluchistan Governorate and Zahedan City Municipality. The sample size in the qualitative section was based on the principles of theoretical saturation of 17 people using the snowball method and in the quantitative section according to Morgan's table, 248 people were selected using the stratified sampling method. In order to collect data, a semi-structured interview method was used in the qualitative part, and a researcher-made questionnaire was used in the quantitative part. The content analysis of the interviews was done using the coding method (open, central and selective coding) and structural equations. The interviews continued until the theoretical data saturation stage. Qualitative content analysis was done with MAXQDA12 software. Smart pls4 software was used for confirmatory factor analysis and SPSS25 software was used to determine model validityFindings: The results of the research showed that the factors affecting the establishment of knowledge-based cities in less developed areas were identified with 6 main factors, 15 components and 69 indicators. Finally, the factors affecting the establishment of knowledge-based cities in less developed areas were designed and validated with a questionnaire.Conclusion: Also, according to the findings, the effective factors were evaluated with structural equations, which finally showed that the relationship between the variable causal factors and the main phenomenon with a factor loading of 0.806 was considered the most important factors.
Research Article (Qualitative)
Psychology
Fateme Baharlou; Hossein Mahdian; Abolfazl Bakhshi Pour
Abstract
Purpose: People with social anxiety have many interpersonal problems. As a result, the aim of this study was to comparison the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy and transactional behavior analysis on the interpersonal problems of students with social anxiety.
Methodology: This research was ...
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Purpose: People with social anxiety have many interpersonal problems. As a result, the aim of this study was to comparison the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy and transactional behavior analysis on the interpersonal problems of students with social anxiety.
Methodology: This research was a semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test and one-month follow-up design with a control group. The research population was female senior high school with social anxiety in governmental schools of Ashkhane city in the academic years of 2022-2023. In this study, 45 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in three equal groups. Each of the experimental groups was trained in 10 sessions of 90 minute separately and as a group with dialectical behavior therapy and transactional behavior analysis methods, and the control group remained on the waiting list for training. The research tool was Connor et al.'s social anxiety inventory (2000) and Barkham et al.'s interpersonal problems inventory (1996), and the data obtained from their implementation were analyzed by methods of analysis variance with repeated measure and Bonferroni's post hoc test in SPSS version 25 software.
Findings: The findings of this study showed that there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of reduction of interpersonal problems of students with social anxiety (P>0.05). In addition, both intervention methods of dialectical behavior therapy and transactional behavior analysis led to reduce the interpersonal problems of students with social anxiety in the post-test and follow-up phases (P<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, therapists, counselors, and psychologists can use dialectical behavior therapy and transactional behavior analysis along with other treatment methods to reduce the interpersonal problems of students with social anxiety.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Soheila Jafari ghale Beig; Masoumeh Eslami; Tayebeh Rahimi Pordanjani
Abstract
Purpose: Socially disadvantaged people have many psychological problems, especially in the field of increasing dark personality traits and decreasing psychological adjustment. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness training and compassion ...
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Purpose: Socially disadvantaged people have many psychological problems, especially in the field of increasing dark personality traits and decreasing psychological adjustment. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness training and compassion therapy on dark personality traits and psychological adaptation in socially disadvantaged girls.Methodology: This research in terms of purpose was practical and in terms of implementation, method was semi-experimental with a pretest, posttest and one-month follow-up design with a control group. The research population was socially disadvantaged teenage girls in health homes under the supervision of the welfare organization of North Khorasan province in the second half of 2021 year. The research sample was considered 45 people who were selected by available sampling method and were replaced by simple random method in three equal groups including two experimental groups and one control group. Each of the experimental groups received 8 sessions of 60 minutes (one session per week) separately with methods of mindfulness training and compassion therapy, and the control group did not receive any training during this period. The research tools were dark personality traits questionnaire (Jonason and Webster, 2010) and psychological adaptation scale (Biesecker et al., 2013) and the data obtained from their implementation were analyzed by analysis variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS software.Findings: The findings showed that both methods of mindfulness training and compassion therapy in compared to the control group caused a significant decrease in dark personality traits (and its three components including narcissism, machiavellism and psychopathy) and a significant increase in psychological adaptation (and its three components including experience, deliberation and social integration) in the posttest and one month follow-up stages in socially disadvantaged girls (P<0.001). Other findings showed that there was no significant difference between the two methods of mindfulness training and compassion therapy in reducing dark personality traits and psychological adaptation and the components of each of them in the posttest and one month follow-up stages in socially disadvantaged girls (P>0.05).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, health professionals and therapists can use both mindfulness training and compassion therapy methods in their psychological interventions to improve health-related characteristics, including reducing dark personality traits and increasing psychological adaptation.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Ziba Nik Mohammadi; Nahid shafiei; Alireza Araghieh
Abstract
Purpose: Curriculum plays an important role in the success of educational systems. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of the heutagogical curriculum of the secondary high school.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was ...
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Purpose: Curriculum plays an important role in the success of educational systems. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of the heutagogical curriculum of the secondary high school.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative from type of exploratory. The population of this research was articles related to the research field in the years 2019 to 2023 and experts familiar with the research field and having PhD degrees in the fields of curriculum planning and educational psychology, which numbered of 9 articles and 6 experts were selected according to the principle of theoretical saturation and with targeted and snowball sampling methods. The data was collected by taking notes from articles and semi-structured interviews with experts, which whose content validity was calculated by 5 experts 0.995 and its reliability was calculated by Cohen's kappa coefficient 0.979, and to analyze the data were used from thematic analysis.Findings: The findings from taking notes from articles and semi-structured interviews with experts showed that for the heutagogical curriculum of the secondary high school in the comprehensive theme of the flexibility were identified 8 basic themes in 3 organizing themes including the flexibility in goals, flexibility in programs and flexibility in management, in the comprehensive theme of the goal were identified 8 basic themes in 2 organizing themes including the heutagogical goal setting platform and comprehensiveness in goal setting, in the comprehensive theme of the content were identified 16 basic themes in 4 organizing themes including the extent of, content production, applied content and skill content, in the comprehensive theme of the learner were identified 15 basic themes in the 4 organizing themes including the self-determining recipient, creative cooperative, learner agency and internal motivation, in the comprehensive theme of the facilitation were identified 24 basic themes in 5 organizing themes including the heutagogical class, heutagogical teachers skills, authentic teaching, creating opportunities for students and teaching of heutagogical skills, in the comprehensive theme of educational technology were identified 12 basic themes in 3 organizing themes including the technological class, technological educational tools and social networks, in the comprehensive theme of thinking were identified 8 basic themes in 3 organizing themes including the systemic thinking, critical thinking and group thinking and in the comprehensive theme of evaluation were identified 19 basic themes in 4 organizing themes including the heutagogical assessment, teacher's role in assessment, student's role in assessment and choice in assessment.Conclusion: According to the identified themes from taking notes from articles and semi-structured interviews with experts for the heutagogical curriculum of the secondary high school, to improve the heutagogical curriculum must prepare the ground for the realization of the identified themes.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Zhila Shahbazi; Soheila Hosseinpour; Ayatolah Karimi Bagh Malek; Abotaleb Saadati Shamir
Abstract
Receive: 2023/10/01Accept: 2023/01/23Published: 2023/01/23 Purpose: Moral education is an important factor in improving the state of educational systems. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigating the affecting scientific ...
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Receive: 2023/10/01Accept: 2023/01/23Published: 2023/01/23 Purpose: Moral education is an important factor in improving the state of educational systems. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigating the affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students and to presenting a pattern.Methodology: The current research is among mixed exploratory research (qualitative-quantitative). The qualitative population was university experts of Tehran city, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 15 people of them were selected through purposive and snowball sampling methods and were subjected to semi-structured interviews. The quantitative population was the senior school female students of five district of Tehran city, which according to Krejcie and Morgan's table and due to possible spills number of 384 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method and answered the researcher-made questionnaire. The qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed with open, central and selective coding methods in MAXQDA software and exploratory factor analysis in SPSS and LISREL software, respectively.Findings: The findings showed that the affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students were included 87 indicators, 21 concepts in 10 categories of social maturity, social, cultural, economic, family and educational infrastructures, personality and moral characteristics and learning and parenting styles, economic factors, critical thinking, social mission, life priorities, valid moral resources, self-awareness and social damages. Other findings showed that validity was confirmed because the average variance extracted for all 10 categories was higher than 0.50 and reliability was confirmed because the Cronbach's alpha and combined was higher than 0.70 for all of them. In addition, the pattern of affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students had a good fit and I the said pattern the factor load of all 10 categories was significant (P<0.05).Conclusion: The pattern of affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students has practical implications for education officials and supervisors. According to the results of this study, they can take an effective step towards improving the moral education of students.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Fariba Ghalenovy; Seyed Amir Amin Yazdi; Hossein Karsheki; Maryam Bordbar
Abstract
Purpose: One of the most important dimensions of thinking is scientific thinking, which can play an effective role in improving the academic conditions of students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was normalization and validation a tool for measuring scientific thinking in Iranian students.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: One of the most important dimensions of thinking is scientific thinking, which can play an effective role in improving the academic conditions of students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was normalization and validation a tool for measuring scientific thinking in Iranian students.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The research population was all high school students in Mashhad city in the 2020-21 academic years. The sample size based on Cochran's formula and with 10% attrition was calculated 648 people, which this number were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tool was a Liang et al scientific thinking questionnaire (2006), and the resulting data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis in SPSS 26 software.Findings: The findings showed that among the 24 items of the scientific thinking questionnaire, the content validity index of all items was approved because it was higher than 0.70, and only the content validity ratio of 4 items was inappropriate because it was lower than 0.50, and these items were revised and modified. Also, the scientific thinking questionnaire had 24 items in 6 components of using from scientific methods, using from scientific theories and laws, social contexts and culture, creativity and visualization, observation and inference, and practice; So that the factor load of all items was higher than 0.60, the average extracted variance of all components was higher than 0.50, and the Cronbach and combined reliability of all components was higher than 0.70. In addition, the reliability of the total scientific thinking questionnaire was obtained with the Cronbach's alpha method 0.86 and with the combined method 0.93.Conclusion: The results showed that the a tool for measuring scientific thinking in students has a good validity and experts and educational planners can use this tool to measure the level of scientific thinking of students and based on its components design and implement programs to improve and promote scientific thinking.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Ali Doosti; Mohammad Mohammadipour; Abdollah Mafakheri
Abstract
Purpose: Considering the decreasing age of addiction and the many problems faced by addicts, the present research was conducted with the aim of presenting a causal model of bias towards drugs in students based on the academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating role of ...
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Purpose: Considering the decreasing age of addiction and the many problems faced by addicts, the present research was conducted with the aim of presenting a causal model of bias towards drugs in students based on the academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating role of hopelessness feelings.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of correlation. The research population was all the junior and senior high school students of one district of Mashhad city in the 2020-2021 academic years, which number of 310 people of them were selected as a sample by cluster random sampling method. The tools of the current research were the questionnaires of addiction potential, academic failure, hyperactivity and attention deficit and hopelessness, which whose psychometric indicators were confirmed in previous researches and in this study. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling method in SPSS version 24 and AMOS version 24 software.Findings: The findings of the present study showed that the causal model of bias towards drugs in students based on the academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating role of hopelessness feelings had a good fit. Also, the variable of academic failure on the hopelessness feelings and bias towards drugs, the variable of hyperactivity and attention deficit on the hopelessness feelings and the variable of hopelessness feelings on the bias towards drugs had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05), but the variable of hyperactivity and attention deficit on the bias towards drugs hadn’t a direct and significant effect (P>0.05). In addition, academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit had an indirect and significant effect on the bias towards drugs with the mediating of hopelessness feelings (P<0.05).Conclusion: The results indicated the effective role of academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating of hopelessness feeling on bias towards drugs. Therefore, the planners and specialists of cultural and educational activities of adolescents in order reduce to bias towards drugs can seek to design and implement programs to reduce academic failure, hyperactivity and attention deficit and hopelessness feelings.
Research Article (Qualitative)
Social Sciences
Abbas Razaghi; Mostafa Ghaderi; Kambiz Poushaneh; Alireza Assareh
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Purpose: Today, due to the growth of information and communication technology, the importance of using online curriculum has increased. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identifying the elements and indicators and validation of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern.Methodology: This was ...
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Purpose: Today, due to the growth of information and communication technology, the importance of using online curriculum has increased. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identifying the elements and indicators and validation of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern.Methodology: This was an applied study from type of qualitative that was done with the synthesis research method. In the current research, among the researches related to the research area number of 75 cases were selected with a purposeful method and taking notes on them was done in order to achieve a suitable summary about the comprehensive online curriculum pattern. Also, 32 experts were used to check the validation of the mentioned model, which they commented on the importance of each of the 31 questions about the validity of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern. Finally, the data were analyzed by synthesis research and fuzzy Delphi methods.Findings: The findings of synthesis research showed that for the online curriculum was identified 174 indicators in 13 elements including goals (with 10 indicators), student (with 12 indicators), teacher (with 14 indicators), content (with 15 indicators), support (with 12 indicators), grouping (with 17 indicators), presence (with 11 indicators), technology (with 11 indicators), time (with 11 indicators), learning environment (with 12 indicators), interaction (with 23 indicators), materials and resources (with 8 indicators) and evaluation (with 18 indicators). The findings of the fuzzy Delphi in the second round showed that out of 31 questions about the validation of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern the said model had adequate validity.Conclusion: The comprehensive and valid online curriculum pattern of this study can be used by experts and curriculum planners to improve online education.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Fatemeh Esmaeelpour Darimi; Esmaeel Jafari; Amirreza Asnafi
Abstract
Purpose: Examining the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system can help to improve it. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying and leveling the effective factors on the social role of the university system based on interpretive structural equations.
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Purpose: Examining the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system can help to improve it. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying and leveling the effective factors on the social role of the university system based on interpretive structural equations.
Methodology: This study was in terms of purpose applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population in the qualitative section was documents and texts related to research and experts in this field. The numbers of 50 documents and texts were selected by purposive sampling method and numbers of 10 experts were selected as samples by purposive sampling method. The data were collected by taking notes from documents and texts and a survey from experts about the researcher-made questionnaire and were analyzed by the interpretive structural equation method in PLS software.
Findings: The findings showed that the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system were included 11 factors of challenging the university curriculum, promoting forms of social participation, preparing students for public jobs, active citizenship curriculum, teaching and learning social responsibility, research-oriented, social projects, cultivating competent people, eligible citizens development, attention to the views of social stakeholders in the university system and social sensitivity education. The results of interpretive structural equations showed that the factor of promoting forms of social participation was on the first level, the factors of research-oriented and cultivating competent people was on the second level, the factor of teaching and learning social responsibility was on the third level, the factors of challenging the university curriculum and preparing students for public jobs was on the fourth level, the factors of active citizenship curriculum, attention to the views of social stakeholders in the university system and social sensitivity education was on the fifth level, the factor eligible citizens development was on the sixth level and the factor of social projects was on the seventh level, and based on the interpretive structural model of the effective factors on the social role of the university system was designed.
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, higher education planners and specialists can use the results of this study and use the identified effective factors on the social role of the university system to improve the state of the university and gain a competitive advantage.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Kamalaldin Yarali; Tayebeh Tajari; Maryam Safari
Abstract
Purpose: Paying attention to entrepreneurial teaching is very important in curriculum elements, and accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyzing the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education.Methodology: This study in terms ...
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Purpose: Paying attention to entrepreneurial teaching is very important in curriculum elements, and accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyzing the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of execution method was qualitative. The population of this study includes six groups of business startups and establishment of knowledge-based companies, cooperation with entrepreneurial intermediary institutions, entrepreneurship education and teaching, authoring articles, books and guidance or counseling of dissertations and thesis in the field of entrepreneurship, specialist of curriculum and managers of planning higher education in Iranian universities in the academic years of 2020-21. The samples were selected according to the principle of theoretical saturation and with the purposeful sampling method, which their number was 25 people. The tool of the current research was a semi-structured interview which whose validity and reliability were checked and confirmed. The data were analyzed by the coding method based on the grounded theory in MAXQDA software.Findings: The findings of the present research showed that the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education had 216 concepts in 47 components and 6 categories. The category of causal conditions includes 8 components and 33 concepts, the category of background conditions includes 8 components and 36 concepts, the category of intervening conditions includes 9 components and 28 concepts, the core category includes 5 components and 39 concepts, the category of strategies includes 12 components and 54 concepts, and the category of consequences includes 5 components and 26 concepts.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, experts and planners curriculum can take an effective step towards improving the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences of higher education.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Niloufar Aghaei Kamakeli; Reza Ghorban Jahromi; Mansoureh Karimzadeh; Seyyed Rouhollah Shahabi
Abstract
Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of mediating the role of self-differentiation in the relationship between basic psychological needs and addiction to online games in secondary school students.Methodology: The cross-sectional research method is correlational. The statistical population ...
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of mediating the role of self-differentiation in the relationship between basic psychological needs and addiction to online games in secondary school students.Methodology: The cross-sectional research method is correlational. The statistical population of this research was made up of all students of the second level of high school in Tehran in 1402-1401, among whom 400 students (200 girls and 200 boys) were selected based on Cain's formula as a staged cluster sampling. In this research, online game addiction tools (Wang and Chang, 2002), basic psychological needs (LaGuardia et al., 2000) and self-differentiation (Skorn and Friedlander, 1998) were used, all of which had acceptable validity and reliability. In order to analyze the data, SPSS-V23 and Lisrel-V24 software were used. Also, in order to test research hypotheses, structural equation modeling was used.Findings: Also, in order to respond to the research hypotheses, structural equation modeling was used. The results showed that basic psychological needs have a direct effect on addiction to online games. Self-differentiation has a direct effect on addiction to online games. Basic psychological needs have an indirect effect on addiction to online games. The modified structural model of the research also had a favorable fit with the data (RMSEA=0.055, GFI=.088) and this is an important step towards knowing the factors affecting the addiction to online games in students.Conclusion: The results showed that basic psychological needs have an indirect effect on addiction to online games.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Zhila Sarmasti; Marjan Kian; Yusuf Mahdavi Nasab; Majid Ali Asgari
Abstract
Objective: Digital literacy in any job plays an effective role in the level of professional competence. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the platforms, obstacles and strategies of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers.Method: ...
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Objective: Digital literacy in any job plays an effective role in the level of professional competence. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the platforms, obstacles and strategies of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers.Method: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The current study population was university and education experts in the 2021-2022 academic years. The sample size of this research according to the principle of theoretical saturation was determined of 24 people, and these people were selected as a sample by purposive non-random sampling method. The only tool of the current research was a semi-structured interview, which whose content validity based on the opinion of experts was confirmed, and its reliability was obtained using the intra-subject agreement coefficient method 0.84. The data of this study were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA-10 software.Results: The results of open, axial and selective coding of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers showed that the said structure had 25 indicators, 8 components in 3 dimensions of platforms, obstacles and strategies. In this study, platforms were included three educational, organizational, and individual components, obstacles were included two educational and managerial components and strategies were included three managerial, organizational, and educational components. Finally, the pattern of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers was designed.Conclusion: The results of this study have practical implications for managers and officials of the education system. According to the results of this study, they can take an effective step towards promoting the level of professional competence through improving digital literacy. Therefore, the results showed that digital literacy is one of the factors that equip teachers with different skills.
