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Zeynab Maleki, Phd Javad Kavousian, Phd Parvin Kadivar, Phd Mehdi Arabzadeh,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (6-2025)
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The present study aimed to present a structural model of academic identity, family communication patterns, and parents'perceived educational expectations with the mediating role of basic psychological needs. The research method was descriptive-correlational and structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all tenth and eleventh grade students in Yazd in the academic year 2021-2022. The statistical sample included 400 tenth and eleventh grade students who were randomly selected as clusters. To collect data, the Basic Psychological Needs Questionnaire, the Academic Identity Status Questionnaire, Family Communication Patterns Questionnaire, and the Parents' Perceived Educational Expectations Questionnaire were used. In order to examine the paths of the research model, structural equation modeling was used using PLS3 software. The results showed that parents' educational expectations, conformity pattern, and conversation pattern have a direct, positive, and significant effect on basic psychological needs. The results also showed that basic psychological needs have a direct, negative, and significant effect on the follower identity and the confused identity and a direct, positive, and significant effect on the latecomer identity and the successful identity. Finally, the results showed that basic psychological needs play a mediating role in the relationship between academic identity and family communication patterns and parents'perceived educational expectations.
Miss Parirokh Mamaghani Miandoab, Dr Javad Kavousian, Dr Mehdi Arabzadeh, Dr Balal Izanloo,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (6-2025)
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The present study aimed to identify the factors influencing online gaming addiction among adolescents using a qualitative research design and semi-structured interviews method based on grounded theory. The participants of this study included 20 boy adolescent aged 13 to 18 years in Tehran who were selected using a theoretical sampling method. Based on the findings, the causes of online gaming addiction were found to be filling leisure time, personal, communication, fame, and wealth acquisition. Also, personal, work, marketing, and perceived social support factors in individual, social, and family dimensions play an important role in the occurrence of this phenomenon. Improving accuracy and concentration, controlling anger, cheerfulness, and relieving depression in the individual dimension, and making friends, becoming professional, and becoming famous in the social dimension, were positive consequences of online gaming addiction. Finally, lack of time for daily activities and academic and personal failure, damage to physical health in the individual dimension, and not being understood by the family in the family dimension were the negative consequences of online game addiction. It is suggested that education planners focus their counseling programs on how to fill leisure time usefully, create enjoyable personalized entertainment, Deal with stress and Satisfy individual needs.
Ali Yousefi Rudpish, Roya Tavakoli, Fatemeh Mohammadifar, Ziba Poursadegh Gavgani,
Volume 19, Issue 3 (12-2025)
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The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of integrative family therapy (cognitive-behavioral and emotion-focused) on improving metacognitions and reducing depression in couples. This study employed a quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design with a control group and was applied in nature. The statistical population consisted of couples who referred to the Andisheh Sabz Counseling Center in Qom in 2025 to receive treatment for depression and to improve their metacognitive skills. The sample was selected using available and purposive sampling methods. Based on Krejcie and Morgan’s formula, a total of 30 participants (15 in the experimental group and 15 in the control group) were selected. Data were collected using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Metacognitions Questionnaire developed by Wells and Cartwright-Hatton (1997). The integrative family therapy intervention was implemented using protocols from cognitive-behavioral family therapy and emotion-focused family therapy during a series of structured sessions. Data were analyzed using appropriate statistical methods, including analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The results indicated that integrative family therapy significantly reduced depression and improved metacognitions in the experimental group compared to the control group.
Zahra Kavousian, Faezeh Ziaei, Parisa Pakari, Parisa Hosseinzadeh Yazdi, Zeinab Hassani Asl,
Volume 19, Issue 3 (12-2025)
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Depression is one of the most prevalent psychological disorders, shaped by the complex interplay of cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors. Recent empirical evidence suggests that negative attentional bias and deficits in emotional working memory are key cognitive–emotional constructs contributing to the maintenance and exacerbation of depressive symptoms. The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of emotional working memory in the relationship between attentional bias and depressive symptoms within the context of family interactions.
This research employed a descriptive–correlational design with a causal–mediational approach. The statistical population consisted of adults engaged in active family relationships in Tehran, among whom 350 participants were selected using a stratified convenience sampling method. The instruments included the Depression Attentional Bias Questionnaire, the Emotional Working Memory Scale, and the Family Interaction Quality Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and path analysis.
The results indicated a significant positive relationship between attentional bias and depressive symptoms within family interactions, with emotional working memory playing a significant mediating role in this association. These findings suggest that impairments in emotional working memory may serve as a cognitive mechanism underlying the impact of attentional bias on depressive symptoms. Overall, understanding this mediating pathway can contribute to refining theoretical models of depression and developing preventive and therapeutic interventions focused on enhancing cognitive and emotional functioning at both individual and family levels.
