Journal of Counseling Research

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Abstract The purpose of this research was to investigate the efficacy of group logo therapy on resilience and loneliness of female students with love trauma syndrome.The semi- experimental design: pre-post test with control group was used in this study. Populations were all female students of Kurdestan Univesity and were selected through voluntary sampling method. Sample numbers were 24 students that gained high scores on Love Trauma Inventory (1999) and randomly assigned to control and experiment groups (each group included 12 students).Also the Connor-Davidson Resiliency Surveys (2003) (CD-RISC) and loneliness scale Univarsity of California (1998) was completed by both groups. The experiment group exposed to 10 instruction sessions of group logo therapy .By ending the therapeutic period, both groups were examined by means of the mentioned inventory. Result analyzed with SPSS 21 software .Statistical methods included descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum scores) and inferential statistics (Analysis of covariance). Findings: The results showed that there is significant difference between posttest scores of resilience and loneliness at experimental and control groups (P<0/05). Also ,there was significant differences between posttest scores of love trauma syndrome in both experimental and control groups (P<0/05).The overall results indicate that group logo therapy can be used as an effective treatment on the reduce of loneliness and love trauma syndrome. It also increases the resilience level.

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The purpose of the present study was the prediction of general health based on the components of self-compassion (self-kindness, self-judgment, common humanity, isolation, mindfulness and over-identification) among students who have experienced love break up in Ahwaz universities. The present research method was correlation. The participants of the study were 190 girls who have experienced love break up over a year ago. The selection of sample population was purposive sampling. The instruments for data gathering include Goldberg General Health Questionnaire and Neff Self-Compassion Inventory. For the analysis of the data, discriminate analysis method was used. Results showed that linear combination of the variables of the study can predict general health among girls of universities of Ahwaz. With the usage of step by step method of discriminate analysis, it has been also identified that order of the most efficient variables in prediction of general health were 1- over-identification and 2- common humanity. Investigation of the variables separately showed that all variables including self-kindness, self-judgment, common humanity, isolation, mindfulness and over-identification were significant predictive for general health among girls of Ahwaz city.

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Seyyedeh Faeze Sajjadi - Rasool Rowshan The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of communication skills on improving the perspective on love and marital disenchantment. The current research was semi-experiential and involved pretest and posttest with control group. The target population included all female marriage students at Mashad Medical University who were present at campus dormitory at the beginning of summer 2014. Forty individuals were selected through purposeful sampling. Selected individuals participated in ten 90-minute (twice weekly) supervised training. Research tools included Paynz Marital Disenchantment and Hendrik and Hendrik attitutes towards love. Data from single-variable and multi-variable covariance analysis were analyzed. Results showed a meaningful difference between the behavior of the two groups (p<0.0001). Additionally, communication skills seemed to improve perspective towards love and marital disenchantment.

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This research was  aimed finding the predictive role of irrational communicative beliefs and love components with marital disenchantment among women referring to counseling centers in Shiraz, Iran. Statistical population of this study consisted of all women who referred to these centers due to marital disenchantment and the sample comprised 203 women, who were selected by random sampling method. The instruments used in this research are Relational Beliefs Questionnaire, Love Components Questionnaire and Marital Disenchantment Questionnaire. Results of multiple regressions as synchronous method showed that relationship beliefs predict marital disenchantment positively as well as love components predict marital disenchantment of women negatively. Pearson correlation test showed that there is relationship between the field variables (age, marriage duration, education and number of children) and marital disenchantment as well as field variables and relational beliefs as the age of participants does not affect on the beliefs. Also, the results of Pearson correlation coefficients showed that there is relationship between field variables and love components in women as the education level does not affect on their love components. And the regression test results as synchronous method showed the anticipated components of love (especially, Intimacy) of the relational beliefs.

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Aim: The aim of present research was making a test of perception of lovemaking between single students and survey of psychometric features of this tool. Methods: The research method was mixed. For this purpose, first during a qualitative study based on data-driven theory using a semi-structured interview technique, 32 students (18 girls and 14 boys) were interviewed. The sampling method was purposeful and based on theoretical saturation. The text of the interviews were identified using MAXQDA10 qualitative data analysis software. Students' coding and perception of lovemaking were identified in three categories: ethics of logical obedience, emotional self-obsession and immoral self-obsession. In the next step, based on the codes obtained from the qualitative part of the research, a questionnaire appropriate to the cultural and educational context of Iranian society was developed to measure the perception of lovemaking of single students and then 560 single students ranging in age from 19 to 33 years. (314 girls and 246 boys) Bachelor's and Master's degrees from 5 governmental and Islamic Azad universities in Tehran (Allameh Tabatabai, Shahid Beheshti, Imam Sadegh (AS), Research Sciences and Amirkabir Universities), which are in a multi-stage cluster method Were selected and answered the test. Results: The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scale of love perception contains 18 questions and includes three confirmed categories of ethics of logical obedience (questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), emotional self-obedience (questions 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) and immoral self-obsession (questions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) of lovemaking. Model fit indices in confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the validity of this scale. Conclusion: Therefore, based on the findings, the students' love perception test can be used as a valid and valid tool to measure and evaluate the love perception of single Iranian students.

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Aim: Blindness can drastically change the life of the person, and can create some problems in psychological and social adaptation. The purpose of the present study was to examine the love experience and the criteria for choosing a spouse among blind female students. The method used in this study was interpretative phenomenological analysis. Methods: This research uses deep, exhaustive, and semi-structured interviews to assess 18 students. All interviews were recorded digitally, and were transcribed. The data were analyzed using van Manen’s‌ method. Findings: Six primary themes were emerged from the nature of participants’ lived experience, including ‘romantic assumptions and believes’, ‘romantic behaviors’, ‘the impact of love-making on life’, ‘attractive factor’ in the perception of love, and ‘intrapersonal criteria’, ‘interpersonal criteria’ in spouse selection. Conclusion: Sign and body language’ factor was among the most important communicative ways through which a blind girl makes a romantic relationship. ‘Commitment and fidelity’ were the most important criteria for spouse selection, and ‘health and beauty’ were the most important intrapersonal criteria.