Showing 5 results for Youth
Dr Yasser Rezapour Mirsaleh, Mr Mahdi Shomali, Ms Atefeh Barkhordari, Ms Azam Mandegariyanخ, Roya Shafizadeh,
Volume 19, Issue 75 (12-2020)
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Aim: The purpose of present study was to qualitatively investigate the neccassary content for entrepreneurship training courses in the viewpoint of young entrepreneurs who lived in Yazd province, in order to providing more effective training courses. Method: This study was a qualitative research that using grounded theory. The population of the study consisted of men and women who participated in entrepreneurship courses held in Yazd province during 2011-2017 and are currently known as entrepreneur. Purposeful sampling was performed until the theoretical saturation of the interviews. Finally, 20 individuals (16 males and 4 females) were interviewed in a semi-structured manner and then the interviews were analyzed using three phases of open, axial and selective coding. Results: The results showed that in order to improve the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training courses, in intrapersonal dimension, several skills such as self-management, independence, social skills, motivational factors, control and orientation of problems, personality traits, emotional self-regulation and identifying and correcting of cognitive errors should be considered. In interpersonal dimension, coping with destructive behaviors, efficient interpersonal relationships, and social and organizational motivations are more important. In the occupational dimension, legal knowledge, economic, technology knowledge and networking knowledge should be considered. Finally, in the educational dimension, training prerequisites and structural and legal factors must be taken into account in order to have better entrepreneurship training courses. Finally, paradigm model of the content of entrepreneurship training courses was presented. Conclusion: Based on the findings, it can be concluded that educational content of the current entrepreneurship training courses should be revised.
Mrs Kowsar Dehdast,
Volume 21, Issue 81 (5-2022)
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Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate young people's metaphors of "marriage" based on the cognitive metaphorical theory of Lakoff and Johnson. Methods: In line with the goal of this research, and in order to obtain the lived experiences of individuals, phenomenological methodology in qualitative study was used. The study population was married youth who volunteered to be interviewed in this field and based on the principle of theoretical sampling and data saturation, 13 people were interviewed. Results: This study showed how the Iranian youth understand the concept of marriage in such a way that the nature of marriage is a purposeful journey that is created by spouses. The existence of origin, destination, purposefulness, human corridor and movement, and finally the necessities of a healthy and successful transition to this destination, is seen positively to explain "way" as my nickname "marriage". Conclusion: Findings indicate that in this regard, the approach of educational counseling should be resorted to, in addition to the purpose and destination of the couple in marriage, their goals in life in terms of value and semantic changes in society and discourses involving spouses around the concept of marriage was examined.
Youssef Habibi, Atousa Kalantarhormozi, Qiumars Farahbakhs, Hossein Salimibajestani, Mohammad Asgari,
Volume 21, Issue 81 (5-2022)
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Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the components of smoking tendency in youth from the perspective of addiction and smoking experts. Methods: in this study, a qualitative approach and thematic analysis method were used. Participants included experts in the fields of addictions and smoking and smokers (therapists, researchers, professors and teachers) in 1399 who were selected using purposive sampling. Sampling was done using interview tools (semi-structured) in order to receive the data until the saturation point and then the collected information was analyzed by coding method (main and secondary). Findings: The analysis of the research findings led to the extraction of 85 primary concepts, 38 subcategories and 15 main categories, according to which, the main categories of smoking tendency in youth were: 1. The effective role of relatives in consumption, 2. Inefficient atmosphere of the family predisposing to consumption, 3. Motivation of peer groups in consumption, 4. Media coverage of smoking, 5. Influence of famous personalities, 6. Facilitating society in consumption, 7. Favorable consumption conditions in public recreation area, 8. Easy access to cigarettes, 9. Cognitive distortions about smoking, 10. Inefficient psychological causes, 11. Reverse reaction to superficial inhibitors in consumption, 12. Weak adaptive skills, 13. Consideration of behavioral attractiveness, 14. Media’s superficial portrayal of the harms of consumption, and 15. Recreational consumption. Finally, the combination of the main categories led to the extraction of two core themes, including the interpersonal components, the extra-personal component, and the intrapersonal components of the tendency to smoke in youth. Conclusions: The present study showed that youth are affected by interpersonal and extra-personal factors such as the media, family, society and the atmosphere of peers with common interests or intrapersonal dimensions like psychological disorders, famous characters in movies, or skill weaknesses are more likely to tend to smoke and continue smoking.
Dr. Masoud Asadi, Dr. Mohsen Nazarifar, Mr. Hasan Ebrahimzadeh, Dr. Elham Fathi, Professor Manijeh Daneshpour,
Volume 21, Issue 82 (5-2022)
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Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of mental disorders and resilience against suicide in a suicide attempt. This research is applied, in terms of purpose, and post-event in terms of type. Methods: The statistical population of the study included all young men in Qazvin and the statistical sample included 80 of them who were purposefully selected and divided into two groups of suicide attempters and normal people. The Revised Mental Disorders Symptoms Checklist (SCL-90-R) and the Suicide Resilience Questionnaire (Osman et al., 2004) were utilized to collect data. Results: The results showed that the mean scores of those who attempted suicide were significantly high on aggression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, physical complaints, psychosis, paranoid delusions, depression, and morbid fear than normal individuals. Also, the mean scores of those who attempted suicide were significantly lower than the normal group in the overall score of resilience and internal protective subscales, emotional stability, and external protection (P<0.05). Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, it is suggested to increase the resilience against suicide with psychological training and with interventions based on psychotherapy theories, to address mental disorders which played an important role in a suicide attempt in the present study, and as such to reduce the risk of suicide.
Ebrahim Jahandar, Asieh Shariatmadar,
Volume 23, Issue 89 (6-2024)
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to study the phenomenological process of postponing marriage in young people in order to understand different aspects of this phenomenon and how young people perceive it. Methods: To achieve the research goal, a qualitative approach and a descriptive phenomenological method were utilized. The research population included single and never-married girls and boys living in Tehran between the ages of 28 to 34 years for girls, and 32 to 38 years for boys. Purposeful sampling was used with the convenient sampling and 13 individuals including 7 girls and 6 boys were selected as the sample.y. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed by Colaizzi method. Finding: Finally, the research findings reported falls into 12 main themes and 61 sub-themes. The main themes are: economic concerns, idealism, fear of future marriage, the impact of premarital relationships, motivational processes, immaturity and readiness for marriage, the role of family barriers, socio-cultural factors, selection constraints, preconceived notions of marriage, positive consequences and negative consequences. Conclusions: The results showed that postponing marriage is a complex phenomenon which is affected by objective constraints, limiting mental perceptions and insufficient maturity and has many negative consequences for young people. It seems that the efforts of the counseling and psychological community to produce content in the fields of creating a culture of easy marriage process, reviving the values of marriage, correcting the misconceptions of young people, and dissemination of successful marriages in the social media and networks, is an effective step to remove mental barriers of marriage.
