[Comparison of general health in adolescent boys and girls and its relationship with personality characteristics]

The importance of the mental processes and their role in people's health and disease have been demonstrated by several studies. Although diverse affect people's health, for the realization of their general health, and the role of personality factors that determine the individuals' rules of conduct, further studies are required. Exploration and comparison of general health in adolescent girls and boys and its relationship with personality characteristics. We selected for this cross-sectional study, 4342 male and female students in high schools and pre-university across 11 provinces of Iran through multistage cluster sampling. General Health Questionnaire [GHQ] and Five- factor Personality Traits[NEO] were filled. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics parameters such as frequency, mean and standard deviation and for inferential analysis, Correlation Coefficient, Regression Analysis and multivariate analysis of variance [MANOVA] were used. According to the results, there was a significant difference between adolescent girls and boys in terms of general health. The results also showed that there was a significant positive correlation between neuroticism and general health and a significant negative correlation between extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness and general health [p<0/01]. Also it was shown that neuroticism, extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience can be considered respectively as the predictors for measuring the probability of adolescents' general health status. Considering the results, it seems that by examining the personality characteristics of adolescents we can measure the likelihood of changes in various aspects of their general health conditions. Also, as the results demonstrated, we can conclude that the general health of the girls are more at risk than the boys

[ efficacy examination of healthy relationship instructing with social learning perspective instructing on increasing awareness about boys and abusive relationships among girls]

Purpose of this research was to eaxamine the healthy relashionship instructing efficacy on increasing awarness about abusive relationships among girls and boys. The research was quassi-exprimental. The population sample of research consisted of all girls in dormitory of Isfahan University [3000]. For sampling, at first Awarness about Abusive Relationships Scale was randomly administered among 100 of them, then 30 persons were selected who their awarness about abusive relationship were low. Finally, they were randomly assigned in control and expreimental groups. Both groups were evaluated with Awarness about Abusive Relationships Scale by meams of pre and post test. The experimental group was recieved-instructing intervention while control group was in waiting list. the results of Man cova showed healthy relationship instructing are effective on increasing awareness about abusive relationships and different aspects of it. [p<0.5]. the results showed the insrtructing format could use as instructing model for healthy and abusive relationship for increasing awareness and knowledge among girls in this field