A B S T R A C T This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of encouragement education on reducing exam stress and increasing self-efficacy of ninth grade female high school students by pretest - posttest experimental method with control group. Sample group consisted of 20 female students of the high schools of Bandar Lengeh in 2015-16 academic years and were chosen by cluster random sampling method and were placed randomly into two groups of test and control (10 people in each group). The scale of exam stress and perfectionism of participants in this research was evaluated by Ahwaz exam anxiety form (1996) and Lowenthal academic self-efficacy scale (1996) in the pre-test and post-test respectively and the test group participated in 10 sessions of encouragement education. The covariance analysis running on data showed that the amount of exam anxiety and self-efficacy of experimental group has a significant decrease and increase (P <0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that encouragement education can cause a significant reduce in exam anxiety and significant increase in self-efficacy in the scores of ninth grade female high school students.

A B S T R A C T This study examines the relationship between emotional family atmosphere and tendency to consume alcoholic beverages in the city of Bandar Abbas in 2014-15 years. The statistical population of the study was all male residents of Bandar Abbas city. The sample consisted of 100 subjects: 50 healthy subjects and 50 alcoholic beverages consumer who were selected by simple random sampling method. Family atmosphere inventory of Mouse (1988) was used to collect information. The results showed that two variables of creating sensitivity and explicit expression are as the most influential family variables on the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

http://dx.doi.org/10.20286/ajps-0502148One of the important aspects of development is the understanding social values and the object of teaching moral values that create self-preservation and acquiring power opposing by discriminating the illogical inclination. It is therefore it is needed to recognize the moral balance and being equal the moral scale in action. Or the output of the result, moral or immoral. There are three stages of the moral growth in the different cultures that are firm and unchangeable. The present research work has the object to study the moral growth in young girls, whom cross road of secondary school stage. There administrative relation with their parents. This work is based on two stage, of middle school and senior secondary stage. For the moral growth of the youths, moral texts to make at the base of Kohlberg’s moral test; by looking at the administrative relations with the parents for that purpose a questionnaire to be prepared. The date collect on the base of that. The analysis to make on the base of statistics. The result living in the democratic atmosphere is lead to higher moral growth than living in Participatory administrative system. Also, the results of participatory leadership of parents are lead to growth in morality of adolescences.

Early onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder in childhood is bad news. That is why designing and testing various interventions that target this disorder at an early age is very important. In this regard, the present study aims to study the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy on children with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This quasi-experimental study consisted of pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages. Out of the population of children 6 to 12 years old with obsessive-compulsive disorder referring to psychological counseling centers in Isfahan, 30 individuals were selected. Then they were randomly divided into two groups of experimental group who received cognitive behavioral therapy and control group. The experimental group received 12 sessions of group therapy intervention based on cognitive-behavioral model on a weekly basis. Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale was filled by the subjects in pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages. Analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to analyze the data. The results showed that cognitive-behavioral group therapy in all areas of obsession and compulsion of time, interference, discomfort, resistance, and control had a significant impact (α˂ 0.01 ). The results obtained in this study show the effectiveness of group therapy and group interventions in addition to other privileges of them. Key words : obsessive-compulsive disorder, group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, child, mother

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of anger management and control training on the mental health promotion of male high school students of Bandar Abbas. The statistical population of the study was all the male students in secondary high schools in Bandar Abbas. The research sample consisted of 50 subjects (25 subjects in the control group and 25 in the test group) who were selected by purposive sampling (non-random) method and through matching and random replacement. Information gathering tool was Mental Health questionnaire GHQ-28 of Goldenberg and Hiller (1979). In order to conduct the survey, a cognitive-behavioral approach with emphasis on child-adult relationship presents a multiple training model regarding anger management which has been compatible with Islamic-Iranian culture in the review level and is been designed in twelve 2-hour sessions. Results in this study showed that the approach of cognitive-behavioral approach (anger management and control training) has a significant effect on mental health (F value= 1811.60 at p <0.001). Therefore, the approach of cognitive-behavioral approach (anger management and control training) is proper in the improvement of students’ mental health.

A B S T R A C T This study aimed to explore the relationship between happiness, self-efficacy and vocational capability of elementary school teachers of District 2 of Bandar Abbas. The research method was correlation-based and descriptive and the statistical population of the study consisted of 150 teachers of elementary school of District 2 of Bandar Abbas, and the volume of calculated sample was 108 students who were selected by available random sampling. In this study, three questionnaires were used: Schweitzer and Jerusalem’s General Self-Efficacy Scale (1995), Oxford happiness and capability of Spritzer. According to the research findings, a significant and positive correlation was observed between self-efficacy with happiness and capability and between happiness and capability. The teachers’ vocational capability has a strong and significant relationship with happiness and their self-efficacy.