While it is clear that parenting behaviors impact adolescent adjustment in a number of ways (Steinberg, 2001), less is known about how parenting changes over time as children develop across adolescence. The current study has two goals: first, to examine longitudinal measurement invariance of a parenting behavior measure assessing acceptance, rejection, and consistent discipline by mother and fa...

objective: substance abuse is a socio-psychological disorder. the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy with 12-steps narcotics anonymous on psychological well-being of opiate dependent individuals in addiction treatment centers in shiraz, iran. method: this was a randomized controlled trial. data were collected at entry into the study and at po...

aim and background: the aim of the present study was to investigatethe psychometric properties of the trait hope scale and its relation with psychological well-being of iranian university students. methods and materials: in this descriptivesurvey, 191 students of hamadan islamic azad university (mean age: 24.17 ± 4.30 years; range: 18-45 years) were selected through stratified randomsampling.th...

objective: diabetes is a chronic disease causing not only somatic complications like hyperglycemia, but also increased psychological consequences and impaired psychological well-being in diabetics. various psychological treatments have been applied so far to reduce the mental symptoms and promote the mental well-being of these patients. this study aimed at determining the efficiency of dialecti...

to study the effect of positive psychology intervention on psychological well-being of drugs inmates.the subjects were 30 male drugs inmates in semnan prison. the participants were selected through random sampling and randomly placed in experimental (15 person) and control groups (15 person). one person in control group was absent in post-test. experimental and control group answered to psychol...

background: lack of health will prevent the progress and promotion of people and psychological well-being is defined as the development of real talents of each individual; are therefore considered to be an important topic worth studying. this study examined the relationship of forgiveness with health and psychological well-being. method s: a sample of 243 university students (113 males, 130 fem...