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Volume 16, Issue 61 (3-2017)
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Aim: The aim of this reasarch was to grounded Employees's Boundaryless Career Attitudes. This reasarch was an explantory mixed  research of selecting participant.

Method: The statistic population of this research was the employees of Isfahan's engineered companies. In the quantitative process, the samples were 200 employees who were selected by cluster sampling method and in gualitative process 15 employees were selected by purposeful sampling. Boundaryless Career Attitudes Scale, Proactive Personality Scale and  deep survery were used for gathering data. In quantitative process for selecting boundaryless and traditional employees, psychometric properties and Factor structure of boundaryless career attitudes scale were analyzed by using confirmatory factor analysis. In gualitative process data were analyzed by using grounded theory and  in three stage: open coding, axial coding, selective codingtric.

Finding: The results of the confirmafory factor analysis, showed that confirmed the factor-second order model and revealed that the Boundaryless Mindset and Organizational Mobility Preference were two seprated and indepent component of boundaryless career. The qualitative's results revealed that "individual construction" is the most important construction of this attitudes. This construction consists of 28 categories in boundaryless employees and 5  categories in traditional employees.

Results: Individual constructions is the most important construction of boundaryless career attitudes and it investigat by three section: causes, strategy and result.


Helia Behrouznia, Dr. Keyvan Salehi, Dr. Yaser Madani, Dr. Somayeh Shahmoradi,
Volume 24, Issue 93 (3-2025)
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Aim: Single-session therapy is a method designed to address the client's issues in the shortest possible time and emphasizes efficiency and maximum use of time. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of single-session therapy on marital intimacy.
Method: This research employed a mixed-methods explanatory design. The statistical population included all couples who visited to the Behzist Clinic in Tehran in 2023 with marital problems with marital problems. A total of 30 couples were selected through convenience sampling and assigned to experimental and control groups. In the quantitative phase, the effect of this intervention was assessed using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a control group, and using and the Walker and Thompson Marital Intimacy Scale (1983). In the qualitative phase, data from semi-structured interviews were collected with the same participants from the experimental group and analyzed by descriptive phenomenology method following the Colaizzi method.
Findings: The quantitative results indicated that single-session therapy significantly improves marital intimacy (P ≤ 0.05). The qualitative findings also revealed improvements in marital intimacy, aligning with the subscales and questions of the Marital Intimacy Scale and supporting the quantitative results.
Conclusion: This study demonstrates that single-session therapy can be used as a practical, short-term, and effective approach to improve marital intimacy, and its results can be useful for therapists and future researchers and encourage couples to use this method to enhance intimacy in their marital life.


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