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Background: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing cognitive emotion regulation in two male groups, one suffering from cancer and the others cancer free
Materials and methods: The sample included 100 hospitalized men suffering from cancer, and 100 individuals without cancer who were selected through purposive sampling. The samples filled out Garnefski's cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire [CERQ-P]. Data analyzed by independent t-test
Results: The results showed that the cognitive emotion regulation index was significantly different between the two groups concerning five factors of blaming oneself, blaming others, acceptance, positive assessment, learning perspective and negative approaches of cognitive emotion regulation [p<0.05]
Conclusion: Efforts of patients with cancer for usage of positive approaches of cognitive emotion regulation determines the effect of these approaches on their physical and psychological welfare. In such a manner, a specific method that an individual uses for his/her emotion regulation may make him/her more adaptable to stressful situations, such as cancer, compared with other people
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Background: ADHD [attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder] is a developmental disorder that has been attracting the attention of psychologists and psychiatrists for a long time. The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of training in improving attention and working memory on continuous performance in ADHD children
Materials and methods: This was a semi-expremental study performed on 44 ADHD children referred to psychiatric clinics in Babol city. They were equally divided into the experimental and the control groups. The performance of the members belonging to both groups was assessed using the continuous performance test in the pretest stage. Each member of the experimental group was then individually trained for 20 half-hour sessions [three half-hour sessions per week for a period of seven weeks] using attention and working memory improvement software. After the training period, post-test was conducted on members of both groups using the mentioned software
Results: Results of ANCOVA indicated that despite increased continuous performance in both the experimental and the control groups in the post-test stage, the increased continuous performance in the experimental group was greater compared to the control group. Therefore, training in improving attention and working memory was effective in increasing continuous performance in ADHA children
Conclusion: Training in improving attention and working memory, and similar trainings, can be considered as complementary treatment method, or a substitute method for medicines
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Biological personality Gary, as a psychological- neural theory, refers to brain systems of behaviors explaining psychological and social factors. Aim of the present study was to investigate relationship between behavioral inhibition and activation systems with adjustment of students. Among high school students of Tehran province in years of 2011-2012, 332 individuals [166 males, 166 females] were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling. White scale brain systems and behavior [Carver and White, 1994] and scale adjustment of students [Sinha and Syg, 1993] were used. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and stepwise regression analyzes and t test. There was significant correlation between behavioral activation system and white adjustment emotional, academic and inhibition system whit social adjustment deterrent system. There was no significant sex difference between brain behavior system and adjustment. It seems that important components of biological models of personality can be effective in explaining many psychological and social behaviors