Applied Research in Consulting

Abstract The aim of this study was to review the role of attachment styles on social anxiety. Social anxiety as one of the most common anxiety disorders is associated with impaired social functioning at school, work and private life. In this article, by reviewing the texts by referring to specialized articles to collect information from psychological sources, the relationship androle of safe and insecure attachment styles on social anxiety were described and explained. According to the review of the results, the variable of attachment style can be used in the discussion of prevention of harmful behaviors caused by social anxiety by counselors and psychologists

Abstract The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of education based on lifestyle change on the quality of marital relationships of couples with marital conflict. The current research was of a quasi-experimental type with pre-test, post-test and control group. The statistical population of the study was made up of women with marital conflicts with their husbands in Ardabil city who had been referred to counseling centers in 1402. The sample size was equal to 30 people who were placed in two experimental (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. A pre-test was taken from both groups, then training based on changing the lifestyle of the Van Pay model (2018) was given to the experimental group, and then a post-test was taken from both groups. The data were collected using the Sanai Marital Conflict Questionnaire (1379), and the Marital Relationship Quality Questionnaire (Busby et al., 1995) and analyzed by SPSS software (version 26) using the analysis of covariance method. they got. The results of the research showed that the quality of the marital relationship of couples with marital conflict in the post-test stage increased significantly in the experimental group compared to the control group (P<0.01). Therefore, education based on lifestyle change can be used by couples therapists as an effective intervention for conflicted couples in order to increase the quality of marital relationships.

Abstract The aim of the current research was to investigate the effectiveness of training to facilitate the experience of emotion and regulate it on the resilience and adaptive behaviors of adolescents. The research design was experimental. The statistical population of the present study included the first year high school students of Allameh Tabatabai boys' school in district 10 of Tehran province in the academic year of 1402-1401, who were selected from among the statistical population using available sampling method. The experimental group participated in 10 sessions in the training program to facilitate emotion and regulate it. The control group did not receive any training in this field. At the end of the sessions, Connor and Davidson's resilience questionnaire and Bell's adaptability questionnaire were completed by them. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. The results showed that training to facilitate the experience of emotion and regulate it has significant effects on increasing resilience indicators and adaptation dimensions of teenagers, and by teaching teenagers to facilitate the experience of emotion and regulate it, it increased their resilience and adaptability

Abstract The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between self-compassion and attitude towards marital infidelity with the mediating role of emotional self-regulation. The present research was a descriptive-correlational one that was carried out in the form of structural equation modeling. The research community consisted of all married students of Islamic Azad University, Ilam branch in the academic year 1402-03, from which 280 people were selected as a statistical sample. The research tools included Whiteley's marital infidelity attitude questionnaire, Neff et al.'s self-compassion questionnaire, and Hoffman and Kashdan's emotional self-regulation questionnaire. Data were analyzed based on structural equation modeling and using AMOS version 24 software. The findings showed that there is a significant negative relationship between self-compassion and attitude towards marital infidelity and a significant positive relationship between self-compassion and emotional self-regulation at the 0.01 level. In addition, a significant negative relationship was obtained between emotional self-regulation and attitude towards marital infidelity. Finally, self-compassion through emotional self-regulation had an indirect effect on students' attitude towards marital infidelity. Based on the above results, the emotional self-regulation model had a favorable fit in the relationship between self-compassion and attitude towards marital infidelity.