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Introduction: One of the most important concerns in school psychology is understanding how students strive for academic success. Aim: The present study aimed to compare the family’s emotional climate, academic motivation, and academic buoyancy between excellent and average students. Method: In this causal-comparative research, the statistical population consisted of male students in the first year of middle school in districts 5, 18, and 22 of Tehran, Iran, during the academic year 2021-2022. A multistage cluster sampling method was used to recruit 300 students (n=150 per group) from these districts. Data were collected using the Family Emotional Climate Questionnaire by Hill (1964), Harter's Academic Motivation Scale (1980), and Martin and Marsh's (2008) Academic Buoyancy Scale. The collected data were analyzed using Chi-square test, regression analysis, and independent t-test in SPSS-21. Results: The results indicated a significant difference between the two groups in terms of the family’s emotional climate and its components, including love (P

Autism spectrum disorder is a persistent neurodevelopmental disability that persistent challenges in the development of social communication, speech, non-verbal communications also behavioral patterns of a child with this disorder can affect mother-child interaction. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the factors affecting mother's adaptation in order to promote mother's health and improve mother-child relations. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the role of patience and moral intelligence in predicting the action control components (action and state orientation) of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. The statistical population included about 300 mothers with children with autism spectrum disorder who were members of the male-manahad and self-organized group "Negar's Autism Experimental Question and Answer; Ilya's Mother" in Tehran, of which 169 people were selected by convenience sampling method.To measure the research variables, Hossein Sabet Patience Measurment Scale (PS), Lenick and Kiel Moral Intelligence Questionnaire (MIQ), Action Control Scale-Revised (ACS-R) were used in the internet implementation method. Data analysis was done using spss software and descriptive statistical techniques, Pearson correlation analysis and multivariables regression analysis. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between patience and moral intelligence with the components of disengagement, initiative and persistency and a negative and significant relationship with the components of preoccupation, hesitation and volatility. Therefore, the findings indicate the role of patience and moral intelligence in increasing action orientation and reducing state orientation in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder.

Dependent personality disorder is a chronic disorder which associated with the need to be taken care of. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on decreasing interpersonal dependency and increasing action control of individuals with dependent personality disorder. This study conducted semi-experimentally with pretest-posttest control group design and two-month follow up period. From all individuals with dependent personality disorder who attended to psychotherapy clinics of Shahre-Ghods and District 22 Municipality of Tehran, 18 individuals were selected via convenience sampling method and then randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups (with 9 members). Dependent Personality Disorder Inventory-Revised (2007), Interpersonal Dependency Inventory (1977), and Action Control Scale-Revised (2000) were applied to collect data. The members of experimental group were treated via the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy protocol in 11 sessions, each lasted 70 minutes. Eventually, data were analyzed through repeated measures analysis of variance. Findings showed that acceptance and commitment therapy has significant effect on decreasing interpersonal dependency and increasing action control of individuals with dependent personality disorder (P