BACKGROUND Parental substance abuse confronts children with a variety of psychological, social, and behavioral problems. Children of substance abusing parents show higher levels of psychiatric disorders including anxiety and depression and exert lower levels of communication skills. Weak social skills in this group of adolescents put them at a higher risk for substance abuse. Many studies showe...

conclusions the results of the current study show that conducting assertive training in high school students decreases their anxiety, stress, and depression. given that high school years are among the most sensitive stages of one’s life plus the fact that conducting such training programs besides their safe and low cost nature are effective and practical, it is highly recommended that such prog...

this paper examined disagreement in two sets of data in the context of service encounters: problem-solving interactions (doctor-patient communication) and purchase-oriented encounters (pharmacies) from a cross-cultural perspective (spanish-british english). we proposed assertiveness, a term that refers to both socio-psychological and linguistic features of communication, as a concept that may h...

The present research studies the association between traits, values, and life satisfaction. While values should influence the direction of an individual's goals and behavior, his/her traits impact effort-expenditure, efficiency, and persistence in goal-pursuit. We apply the framework of the "Big Two" of agency and communion (Bakan, 1966) for distinguishing the content of values and traits. Whil...

Objectives: Sexual dysfunction is a major health problem and orgasmic one of the common sexual complaints reported by women. The aim this study was to determine effect assertiveness-focused cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT) on women’s orgasm. Methods: This randomized controlled clinical trial included 24 women with secondary anorgasmia referring centers in Tehran, Iran. After randomly a...