Personal Growth Interpretation of Goal Attainment as a New Construct Relevant to Well-being

AbstractPersonal growth interpretation (PGI) of attained goals is one kind of positive cognition that contributes to well-being. We identify five facets of PGI: Concordance Competence, Specific Competence, Efficacy Competence, Cumulative Competence, and Facilitated Competence. We report on the development of a tool, the Personal Growth Interpretation Scale (PGI Scale), which measures these five facets. Analyses provided initial descriptive statistics and indicated adequate construct validity. It is recommended that the PGI Scale is utilized in future research investigating the relationship between PGI, need satisfaction and well-being

A Preliminary Study of Psychometric Properties of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) on an Iranian Sample

The objective of this practical study is to evaluate the validity and reliability of Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (luyten et al. 2017). The participants of this study were 244 mothers from Tehran (in 2019) with 1 to 5 year-old children (106 boys and 138 girls) who answered the translated version of Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire. The structural validity was obtained by exploratory factor analysis with principal component analysis and varimax rotation the three-factors including prementalizing modes, certainty, and curiosity about mental state and 48.43 percent of the variance was extracted. The Cronbach Alpha obtained in the three factors was respectively 0.68, 0.72, and 0.68, and in the whole scale was 0.70. The structural exploratory factor was the same as the structural parental reflective function. Considering the results of the exploratory factor analysis and the obtained reliability, it seems that there is preliminary evidence converging with the results from the original scale, meaning that this scale can assess the parental reflective function in Iran

WordCommentsAnalyzer: A windows software tool for qualitative research [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

There is a lack of free software that provides a professional and smooth experience in text editing and markup for qualitative data analysis. Word processing software like Microsoft Word provides a good editing experience, allowing the researcher to effortlessly add comments to text portions. However, organizing the keywords and categories in the comments can become a more difficult task when the amount of data increases. We present WordCommentsAnalyzer, a software tool that is written in C# using .NET Framework and OpenXml, which helps a qualitative researcher to organize codes when using Microsoft Word as the primary text markup software. WordCommentsAnalyzer provides an effective user interface to count codes, to organize codes in a code hierarchy, and to see various data extracts belonging to each code. It also offers basic visualization tools. We illustrate how to use this software by conducting a preliminary content analysis on Tweets with the #successfulaging hashtag. We also demonstrate that the software has satisfactory performance on a large dataset of Iranian journals abstracts. We hope this open-source software will facilitate qualitative data analysis by researchers who are interested in using Word for this purpose

The Efficacy of Chronic Disease Self Management Programs and Tele-Health on Psychosocial Adjustment by Increasing Self-efficacy in Patients with CABG

AbstractAim: Coronary Artery Disease is a chronic and debilitating condition that seriously affects the lives of patients and their families. Despite advances in medical treatment, CAD is still associated with high morbidity and mortality, high hospitalization rates. It is well known that rehabilitation is an integral component of the care of people with chronic disease. Despite the expense associated with rehabilitation following chronic disease, dissatisfaction with psychosocial outcomes is common. The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of The Chronic ِ Disease Self Management Rehabilitation Program and Telehealth in cardiac patients undergone Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABGS), in order to improve, enhance and maintain their psychosocial adjustment to illness through increasing self efficacy.Method: A total of 300 patients, were recruited through Tehran Heart Center's cardiac rehabilitation clinic. They were randomly assigned to intervention group which received 6 sessions (each session 150minutes in a week) of psycho-educational intervention (N=150), or to a control group which received no intervention (N=150). The patients in both groups completed pretest measures consisting of Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (PAIS) and Cardiac Self Efficacy Questionnaire (CSEQ). Participants were reassessed 2-months and 3- months later.Results: Multiple regression analysis of the collected data, revealed that both after 2 and 3 months, by enrolling the CDSMRP and Tele-health in the intervention group, enhanced significantly Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness through enhanced self efficacy.Conclusion: The Chronic Disease Self management Rehabilitation Program and Tele-health improved the self efficacy of cardiac patients which then enhanced and maintained their Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness

The Relationship between Psychological and Social Capital and Types of Well Being: Mediating Role of the Meaning of Life

This paper was to investigate the mediating role of the meaning of life in relation to psychological capital and social capital with types of well-being. The descriptive research method was correlational and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population was made up of all the students of the Islamic Azad University of Qom in the second semester of the academic year 2021-2022, from which available 234 male and female students (with an average age of 24.47 and a standard deviation of 7.189) of various faculties. The tools of the current research included the Onyx and Bullen Social Capital Questionnaire (SCQ), Luthans Psychological Capital (PCQ), Keys Comprehensive Well-being Scale (CSM), and Schnell’s Sources of Meaning in Life (SoMe). The data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method and AMOS-24 software. The results showed that the initial hypothetical model had a good fit with the observed data. The findings of the research demonstrated that psychological capital and social capital had a significant positive relationship through meaningfulness of life with types of well-being, and also psychological capital has a significant negative relationship through meaning crisis with types of well-being, but it was not detected for social capital with types of well-being the mediator of meaning crisis. Considering the importance of constructs such as psychological capital, social capital, meaningfulness of life and crisis of meaning in the types of well-being of people in the society, planning should be done to optimize these dimensions

The Efficacy of Chronic Disease Self Management Program and Tele- Health on Adherence by Increasing Self Efficacy in Patients with CABG

AbstractAimCoronary Artery disease as a chronic disease is the single largest killer of people in the worldwide. Despite advances in medical treatment, CAD is still associated with high morbidity, mortality, high hospitalization rates. Patients with CAD require comprehensive rehabilitation to control symptoms, slow the progressive nature of condition, decrease re hospitalization, and improve survival. To achieve these outcomes, patient adherence to prescribed medications is vital whereas Poor adherence to the long-term treatment of chronic diseases has been a growing problem and a major challenge for health care professionals. The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of The Chronic ِ Disease Self Management Rehabilitation Programs and Tele- health in cardiac patients undergone Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABGS), in order to improve, enhance and maintain their adherence by increasing the efficacy during intervention sessions.MethodA total of 300 patients, were recruited through Tehran Heart Center's cardiac rehabilitation clinic. They were randomly assigned to intervention group which received 6 sessions (each session 150 minutes in a week) of psycho-educational intervention (N=150), or to a control group which received no intervention (N=150). The patients in both groups completed pretest measures consisting of General Adherence Scale (GAS), Specific Adherence Scale (SAS) and Cardiac Self Efficacy Questionnaire (CSEQ). Participants were reassessed 2-months and 3- months later.ResultMultiple regression analysis of the collected data, revealed that both after 2 and 3 months, by enrolling the CDSMRP and Tele-health in the intervention group, enhanced significantly adherence through enhanced self efficacy.ConclusionThe CDSMRP and Tele-health, improved the self efficacy of cardiac patients which then enhanced and maintained their adherence

Improvement of Selective Attention Using rTMS in Healthy Individuals

Previous research have shown that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) enhances individuals’ cognitive performance. Executive function, particularly selective attention, is one of the fundamental parts of cognitive performances. Neuro-imaging studies indicated proved the role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in selective attention. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of rTMS on healthy individuals’ performance executing stroop task. Thirty healthy subjects received one session of high-frequency rTMS on their left DLPFC. They were instructed to perform stroop task before and after stimulation. The results showed that response time to congruent stimuli decreased significantly in active group. No significant change was observed in incongruent trials. The findings verified the role of left DLPFC on top-down attentional control. It could be concluded that administering rTMS on individuals’ left DLPFC can result in positive effect on selective attention