mental health
mohamad reza tamasoki
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Disorganized and invalidating psychological and environmental conditions are the main factors in using non-suicidal self-harm to convey social messages. The aim of this research was the phenomenological study of this phenomenon in female students of the first secondary school of education in Qom city ...
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Disorganized and invalidating psychological and environmental conditions are the main factors in using non-suicidal self-harm to convey social messages. The aim of this research was the phenomenological study of this phenomenon in female students of the first secondary school of education in Qom city (1402-1401). Its "research method" is "Seven-step Colizzian descriptive phenomenology"; which has been evaluated with the criteria of believability, transferability, reliability and verifiability. The final result of this phenomenological study from semi-structured interviews with 13 participants; In total, there are 6 main themes, 26 sub-themes and 135 concepts. Its agents were mainly messages "indicating chaos" to achieve "negative social reinforcement" (relief from tension and extroverted behavior) or to achieve "positive social reinforcement" (reassurance and attention-seeking). The sexual orientation of the participants is mainly reported as either homosexual or heterosexual. Among the new concepts specific to this research, we can mention "conflict of home, school and media values", "not having freedom of choice", "problem of expressing opinion" and "meaninglessness".
Atyeh Soltan mohammadi; zahra sadat pour seyyed aghaei
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In addition to face-to-face social interaction, the structure of gender identity in teenagers is influenced by new communication technologies, especially the Internet and virtual networks. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the lived experiences of teenage girls ...
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In addition to face-to-face social interaction, the structure of gender identity in teenagers is influenced by new communication technologies, especially the Internet and virtual networks. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the lived experiences of teenage girls from being in the virtual space and its effect on their gender identity. This study is of qualitative type and using phenomenology method and was conducted by using purposeful sampling and analysis of semi-structured interviews with girls aged 13 to 18 years old in Tehran. Finally, after conducting 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews, the researcher reached data saturation. Interviews were analyzed using Smith's method. In this research, 4 main themes and 9 sub-themes and 52 meaning units were obtained, the main themes were: "girls' behavioral changes", "access to early sexual information", "decrease in self-confidence", "gender identity disorder" ». According to the results obtained from this research, being more than 5 hours a day on virtual networks such as Instagram causes damage to the gender identity of teenage girls.
Mojtaba haghani zemydani; fatemeh zameiri; fatemeh ghasemi niaei; samaneh Khazaei; farinaz emadi
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Human life represents a lifelong endeavor to seek and construct meaning. This basic dimension of existence is present every day in the process of working with people in auxiliary professions and challenges therapists to think seriously about the meaning of their lives. Accordingly, the present study ...
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Human life represents a lifelong endeavor to seek and construct meaning. This basic dimension of existence is present every day in the process of working with people in auxiliary professions and challenges therapists to think seriously about the meaning of their lives. Accordingly, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the components and sources of meaning of life in counseling students. This qualitative research was performed by interpretive phenomenological method. The study population included all postgraduate counseling students at Allameh Tabatabai University in the winter of 1399. Participants were selected using purposive sampling logic and snowball method and sampling was continued until information saturation. Finally, 14 subjects (11 girls and 3 boys) were studied through semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was performed using Van Mann's 6-step content analysis method. From the data analysis, 36 sub-themes, 7 main themes and one core theme were obtained. At the a sense of meaning in the lives of the participants. Also, some of them did not achieve significant coherence in the meaningful elements of life, which led to the emergeironmental factors in the context of "environmental determinants" expressedfe. According to the findings, the meaning of life includes many components and resources in counseling students, in which their helping profession has a lot of intervention. Also, sometimes contradictory concepts such as the lack of a stable value system and ing of life, indicate the evolving, fluid and dynamic meaning of life in this group, which is a growth task throughout their working life.
arezoo amini; Mahsima pourshahriyari; Abbas Abdollahi
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Purpose: This research aimed to analyze adolescents` motivational factors for using virtual social media. Method: This research was conducted using the qualitative approach of phenomenology type. For this purpose, 17 female adolescents aged 14 to 16 who were dysfunctional in the use of social media were ...
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Purpose: This research aimed to analyze adolescents` motivational factors for using virtual social media. Method: This research was conducted using the qualitative approach of phenomenology type. For this purpose, 17 female adolescents aged 14 to 16 who were dysfunctional in the use of social media were selected using a purposeful sampling method based on criteria. The research was conducted through semi-structured interviews. Finally, the data were coded and categorized and the results were expressed using the method of narrative reporting. Findings: The analysis of experiences led to the identification of 7 main themes, including the symbiotic relationship with peers, omnipresence, emotion regulation, idealization versus normalization, social comparison, function, and response to existential-humanistic issues. each of them included 5, 7, 8, 4, 5, 15, and 3 sub-themes respectively. Conclusion: The results show that adolescents' problematic use of social networks is not motivated by newness or fashion, but purposefully and motivated by the fulfillment of basic needs (autonomy, competence, and communication). Therefore, in addition to recognizing the needs and motivations of adolescents, the authorities must use the technological opportunities of social networks to respond to their neglected needs in the real world. Also, counselors can take preventive measures or design targeted technological content for them by considering the motivations of adolescents.
Parvin Banoo Azim Oghlui Oskooi; kiumars farahbakhsh; omid moradi
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Aim: Loss of an important family member is the biggest crisis that one has to face. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the experience of the research participants after mourning the death of a family member.Method: This study used a descriptive phenomenological research approach ...
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Aim: Loss of an important family member is the biggest crisis that one has to face. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the experience of the research participants after mourning the death of a family member.Method: This study used a descriptive phenomenological research approach to collect and analyze data.12 participants who had already experienced the death of a family member were selected using purposive sampling method. The participants attended in-depth interviews until data saturation was reached. Finding: Data analysis revealed 4 themes and 14 subthemes for the phenomenon, including: Effective family fields with sub-themes: Emotional support and family companionship, family functioning and restructuring, how family moves through grief stages, continuity of family subsystems functioning, and deceased person's status in the family; effective personal fields with sub-themes: moderator Personality traits, beneficial or inappropriate use of language, impact on one's past experiences and post-traumatic growth; Effective attitudinal contexts with sub-themes Non-religious and secular attitudes to death, Religious and religious attitudes to death, Accepting or rejecting the reality of death; Effective cultural fields with sub-themes extended family support, mourning cultures.Conclution: The findings of this study extend past literature on mourning in the family context. Also, the effective fields extracted from this study have a lot of practical implications for specialists and people involved in mourning.
Mani Rafii; hosein skandari; ahmad borjali; noorali farokhi
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Although loss is a common shared experience among human beings, the broad variety of loss and different meaning people give it, makes its definition a challenging problem for researchers and psychotherapists who work with this phenomenon. In the present study, based on a qualitative and phenomenological ...
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Although loss is a common shared experience among human beings, the broad variety of loss and different meaning people give it, makes its definition a challenging problem for researchers and psychotherapists who work with this phenomenon. In the present study, based on a qualitative and phenomenological approach, the definition and meanings of loss and the variety of experienced losses were examined in a sample of young people who live in Tehran. The sample consisted of 13 people who attended two focused groups and 8 people who were deep-interviewed individually. All sessions were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using Interpretive phenomenological analysis. Results revealed that young people’s definition of loss could be categorized in three major groups: losing something and/or someone that we had, emotional consequences of loss and losing the desired object. In addition, a variety of personal and interpersonal loss experiences such as death of a close person, family, romantic or friendship losses, economical losses, health-related losses and losses regarding to mental concepts were identified. Compared to the previous literature, the present study shows that losses have an even wider range and are strongly related to the culture and life experiences of the people who narrate them. The implications of these results has been discussed and suggestions for further research has been provided. it is essential that future research investigate the response to individual and social loss in terms of their similarity to the common reactions in grief.
