This article deals with the recent developments in health psychology. In the last two decades, cooperation between psychology and medicine has increased. This cooperation has encouraged research activities and provided further support for the bio-psycho-social approach to physical illness. This approach concerns the health and its impairments. There are many publications in this field, along wi...

Introduction: Smoking is considered as the first preventable cause of mortality worldwide. Smoking cessation is influenced by many factors including social, familial and individual aspects. High nicotine dependency is a remarkable cause that makes cessation laborious for the smoker. There are many modalities to estimate the rate of nicotine dependency in practice among which Fagerstrom test is ...

Introduction: Since the past few decades, the concentration of researches on drug abuse and drugs dependency have shift from risk factor to protective factors. In the past two decades, the concept of resiliency was increasingly considered by developmental psychology. The concentration shifted from risk to resiliency originates from disadvantage in emphasizing on identification of risk factors. ...

Addiction is a chronic and recurrent disease, which has always been the focus of various psychological perspectives. Psychoanalysis theories are fundamental in the modern treatment of addiction. As we have seen changes in the structure and process of methods during the time, they have changed in defining the concept of addiction. According to classic theories, addiction is an equivalent to mast...

Based on the importance of sustainability of the relationship between couples, the purpose of this research was conducted to investigate the effect of spouse-specific dependency and gender on entrapment and couple burnout in married students of Islamic Azad University of Qom. Participants included 350 students of Azad University of Qom. Married men and women were enrolled in the years 2015-2016...

The concept of development in general and rural development in particular has very wide dimensions. Hence, investigation of these different dimensions requires different views and fields. Social psychology as one of these fields is ignored in rural debates. Social psychology as an applied science could be used in rural studies. Therefore, the aim of this review study was to investigate capacity...

Background and purpose: Çancer patients are usually suffering from severe pain and disrupted life style and using a proper analgesic seems to be the best option. Pain management failure or improper dosages of analgesics may lead to drug abuse or substance dependency in cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of drug abuse and substance dependency among cance...