Psychology
,mahnaz Hasheminezhad; Akbar Mohammadi; sara Haghighat
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Purpose: Mental health plays an important role in the academic and non-academic life of students. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of providing a structural model of predicting mental health based on personality traits with the mediating role of resilience in Islamic Azad University ...
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Purpose: Mental health plays an important role in the academic and non-academic life of students. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of providing a structural model of predicting mental health based on personality traits with the mediating role of resilience in Islamic Azad University students.Methodology: This study was a cross-sectional from type of correlational. The research population was all the students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran city in the academic years of 2022-2023, which the sample size was estimated to be 685 people. The samples of this study were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method and responded to the research tools including mental health questionnaire (Goldberg and Hillier, 1979), personality traits questionnaire (Costa and McCrae, 1985) and resilience scale (Connor and Davidson, 2003). The data of this study were analyzed by structural equation modeling method in SPSS and Amos software.Findings: The findings showed that the structural model of predicting mental health based on personality traits with the mediating role of resilience in Islamic Azad University students had a good fit. Also, in this model, neuroticism, extraversion, openness, adaptability and conscientiousness on students' resilience and neuroticism, openness, adaptability and conscientiousness on students' mental health had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05), but extroversion on their mental health did not have a direct and significant effect (P>0.05). In addition, neuroticism, extroversion, adaptability and conscientiousness with the mediating of resilience on students' mental health had an indirect and significant effect (P<0.05), but openness with the mediating of resilience on their mental health did not have an indirect and significant effect (P>0.05).Conclusion: In general, the results of this study indicated the direct and indirect effects of personality traits and resilience on students' mental health. Therefore, in order to improve their mental health can provide interventions in the field of personality traits and resilience.
Erfan Atarod; Badri Abasi
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of comparison the academic performance and mental health of gifted and normal female students.Methodology: This research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was causal-comparative. The research population was gifted and ...
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of comparison the academic performance and mental health of gifted and normal female students.Methodology: This research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was causal-comparative. The research population was gifted and normal female students of Talesh township in the academic years of 2018-19. The population of gifted female students was 104 people, which according to Krejcie and Morgan table number of 82 people were selected as a sample by simple random sampling method and accordingly, 82 normal female students who were matched with them were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. The research tools were included the academic performance questionnaire (Pham & Taylor, 1999) and symptom checklist revised of mental disorders (Drogatis, Lipman & Covi, 1973). Data were analyzed by dependent t-test in SPSS-20 software.Findings: The findings showed that gifted and normal female students were significantly different in terms of academic performance and all five components including self-efficacy, emotional effects, planning, lack of outcome control and motivation (P<0.05). In the other words, gifted female students were better off in terms of academic performance and its components. Other findings showed that gifted and normal female students were significantly different only in terms of two components of mental health including somatization and obsessive-compulsive (P<0.05), but in terms of overall mental health and other components including interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, aggression, phobia, paranoid ideation and psychoticism were not significantly different (P>0.05). In the other words, gifted female students were worse off only in terms of the two components of somatization and obsessive-compulsive, but there was no significant difference in terms of overall mental health and other components.Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, planning is necessary to improve the academic performance of normal female students and reduce somatization and obsessive-compulsive of gifted female students.
Fariborz Asl Marz; Shirin Eidi
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting stress, anxiety and Ruling depression between elementary schools teachers in district 2 of city Hamadan and its effect on student’s mental health. Methodology: The method of this study was causal, comparative and statistical, ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting stress, anxiety and Ruling depression between elementary schools teachers in district 2 of city Hamadan and its effect on student’s mental health. Methodology: The method of this study was causal, comparative and statistical, including all male and female teachers working in boys' primary schools in District 2 of Hamadan city in the academic year of 2018-19, which using multi-stage cluster sampling method, A sample of 100 people was selected. Data were obtained using the DASS standard questionnaire tool (Leibund and Leibund, 1995). Data analysis was performed using independent t-test at a significance level of 0.005 using SPSS.22 software. Results: Research results showed that: there was no significant difference between depression rate of male and female teachers (sig=0/61) and their stress and anxiety (sig=0/70). Also, there was no significant difference between the level of teachers teaching and anxiety (sig=0/08) and teachers depression (sig=0/09) in different age groups. Conclusion: According to the research findings, stress and depression are among the important and fundamental factors that affect the behavior, teaching method, and mental health of teachers, the output of which will deliver anxious, discouraged, illiterate and passive students to society, the future guarantee of the society needs capable, healthy and lively teachers and active, hard-working and serious students. This requires that each community pay special attention to the mental health of teachers and students in order to advance its goals.
Zahra Hadidchi; Faezeh Nateghi; Mohammad Seifi
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Purpose: The aim of this researcher was to investigate the current status of mental health education in the curricula of the first secondary school. Methodology: Research method in terms of purpose, applied; In terms of data type, the quality was exploratory and in terms of data collection time was descriptive. ...
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Purpose: The aim of this researcher was to investigate the current status of mental health education in the curricula of the first secondary school. Methodology: Research method in terms of purpose, applied; In terms of data type, the quality was exploratory and in terms of data collection time was descriptive. In this study, data collection by library method and content analysis method to examine the current status of textbook content in heavenly gifts, experimental sciences and thinking and lifestyle in four dimensions of mental health, namely physical and behavioral health, anxiety and personal mood, action Social exercise, depression and despair were used. Results: The results showed that the curriculum of the first secondary school was not in a good condition in terms of mental health education in the studied subjects. Conclusion: Mental health is equal to physical, mental, social, contentment and happy living in which students are able to develop their abilities, face daily psychological pressures and overcome them.
Masoume Hassanpour; Negin Jabbari; Kambiz Ismail Nia Shirvani
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to predict mental health based on the components of artistic intelligence in junior high school students in Mazandaran province. Methodology: This research was applied and descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was all 124796 students in the first secondary ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to predict mental health based on the components of artistic intelligence in junior high school students in Mazandaran province. Methodology: This research was applied and descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was all 124796 students in the first secondary school of Mazandaran province in the academic year 2019-20, which according to Krejcie and Morgan table, 375 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The measurement tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of art intelligence with 55 items and mental health of Omidian and Alavi Langroudi with 46 items whose construct validity, using factor analysis and reliability through Cronbach's alpha coefficient, respectively, were equal. 0.94 and 0.92 were calculated. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis using SPSS23 software. Result: The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between artistic intelligence and its components (artistic talent, artistic attitude, artistic taste, artistic activity, artistic skills and art economics) with students' mental health. Artistic intelligence components explain (predict) 61% of students' mental health. Also, the artistic taste component has the largest share in predicting students' mental health. Conclusion: Artistic intelligence and art therapy as one of the tools to strengthen and discharge psychological emotions and an important factor in preventing mental illness and students' health.
Mahnaz Asad; Seyed Ali Hosseini Almadani
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the use of virtual networks with mental health and isolation among high school girl students in Tehran.
Methodology: This research is descriptive-survey and correlation research. The statistical population of the study included ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the use of virtual networks with mental health and isolation among high school girl students in Tehran.
Methodology: This research is descriptive-survey and correlation research. The statistical population of the study included high school female students in District 1 of Tehran in the academic year of 1995-96 and a multistage cluster sampling method was used for selecting the sample. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire using virtual networks, and questionnaires (Goldberg's General Health, GHQ-28) and (Social Justice deductibility), whose validity was verified through face validity, and their reliability through coefficient Cronbach's alpha was calculated (0.86), (0.88) and (0.90), respectively. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation test was used through "SPSS 21" software. Findings: The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between the use of virtual networks with isolation and all four components of mental health (physical symptoms, sleep disturbance, anxiety, social function and depression) in female students (p<01/0), The relationship was also significant for use of virtual networks and physical symptoms at 5% (p<05/0) level, and for the other three variables at 1% level (p<01/0).conclusion: Based on these results, it can be said that since the use of virtual networks is effective in mental health and isolation of students, it can be used to identify students with problems in this field, to train related to this field in order to increase Mental health and prevent their isolation.
Volume 4, Issue 2 , March 2019, , Pages 99-112
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AbstractOver the past few years, virtual social networks have become increasingly popular worldwide, and many young people have become members of these virtualized social networks. Virtual social networks play a crucial role in the acceptance and access of people, especially young people, to attitudes ...
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AbstractOver the past few years, virtual social networks have become increasingly popular worldwide, and many young people have become members of these virtualized social networks. Virtual social networks play a crucial role in the acceptance and access of people, especially young people, to attitudes and behaviors, and are considered as one of the main agents of social change. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between virtual social networks with national and religious identity and mental health of secondary school students in District 1 of Kerman. The research method is correlation and using a questionnaire tool. The statistical population includes all high school students in district 2 of Kerman. The sample size was chosen based on the Morgan formula of 364 people and collected using the information classification method. Findings of the research show that there is a significant relationship between the underlying variables; age, gender, educational level and ethnicity variables with social identity and social health. Research findings also show that membership variables in virtual social networks, Internet usage, use of virtual social networks, membership in groups and news types with dimensions of national and religious identity, and mental health, from the point of view of anxiety and depression and symptoms Physical and social work have a meaningful relationship.
