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Objective: Resilience indicates a characteristic within an individual that enables them to flourish despite challenges and limitations, not only overcoming obstacles but thriving in the face of them. The aim of this study is to present a resilience model based on individual factors and the mediating role of emotion-focused coping strategy. Methods and Materials: This research is descriptive-correlational, with the statistical population comprising all male and female students studying at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels at Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, during the 2022-2023 academic year. Samples were selected using stratified random sampling and, based on the Morgan table and accounting for subject dropout, a sample size of 420 individuals was chosen. The instruments used to measure the research variables included the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Attachment to God Questionnaire, Lazarus and Folkman's Coping Strategies, Garnefski et al.'s (2001) Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale. Data analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling with SPSS 22 and Smart PLS4 software. Of the distributed questionnaires, 400 were evaluable and scorable. Findings: Data analysis results indicated that in all pathways, the significance level was less than the error level of 0.05, thus, at a 95% confidence level and an error level of 0.05, the total effect in the research model pathways is significant. The GOF criterion value was 0.513, indicating a moderate to high goodness of fit for the overall research model. Conclusion: The findings highlight the critical roles of self-esteem, emotional regulation, and attachment to God in enhancing resilience through emotion-focused coping strategies among students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: With the beginning of the 21st century, the necessity of transformation in education has become clear to everyone, and technology is the starting point of this transformation. The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship of e-learning with the perception of a constructive environment with the mediating role of learner and teacher abilities in high schools of Kerman city. Methods: This correlational study was performed using structural equation model between from 2021 to July 2020. The samples were 150 high school principals, experts, teachers, and students of Kerman city high schools in 2021 who were selected via convenience sampling. of these, 30 were experts and school teachers, and 120 subjects were high school students. The research tool was a 45-questions researcher-made questionnaire of the factors related to the enrichment of online education and a questionnaire of the perception of the constructivist learning environment based on the facts and Karsheki (2014). The face validity of the researchermade questionnaire was confirmed based on the experts' opinions, and the exploratory factor analysis confirmed the 4-factor structure of the questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed based on the calculation of Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data analysis was done using structural equation modeling method in AMOS software. Results: Using structural equation modeling, the relationship between family structure, educational system, learner ability, teacher ability, and perception of constructivist learning environment was investigated. The values of path coefficients and indirect effects showed that family structure with path coefficient (0.45) and educational system with path coefficient (0.18) indirectly influenced the perception of constructivist environment through the ability of the students. Also, the educational system with path coefficient (0.26) indirectly influenced the perception of constructivist environment through the teacher's ability. The mean and standard deviation of the sample group's scores in the variables of learner ability, teacher ability, and perception of constructivist learning environment were 27.39 and 4.10, 21.37 and 4.08, and 79.05 and 7.79, respectively. These variables included different dimensions that had a score range between 2 to 10, 2 to 4, and 10 to 50. Conclusion: Designing and managing various processes of the online learning system, keeping in mind the empowerment of various dimensions related to this system, namely knowledge, learner, teacher, and family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given that academic procrastination originates from various factors, two of the most important factors in this field are cyberspace addiction and executive functions. Therefore, this research aims to model structural equations for predicting academic procrastination based on cyberspace addiction and executive functions. The research method is a descriptive-correlation type of structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this research includes 8150 female first-secondary school students in the city of Kerman in the academic year 2022-2023; according to Morgan's table, 384 people have been selected as a sample using stratified random sampling. Widyanto and McMorran's (2004) cyberspace dependence, Brief's (2000) executive functions, and Solomon and Rothbloom's (1984) academic procrastination questionnaires were used to collect data. Data analysis was done with SPSS25 and AMOS24 software, and descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean, standard deviation, and structural equation modeling were used. The research results showed that the model for predicting academic procrastination based on dependence on cyberspace and executive functions has an acceptable fit. There is a significant relationship between cyberspace addiction, executive functions, and academic procrastination (p<0.05), so cyberspace addiction and executive functions simultaneously explain 0.70 of the variance of academic procrastination. Therefore, it can be concluded that the high dependence on cyberspace and spending much time aimlessly in this space cause students to procrastinate in doing their homework and to suffer from a kind of procrastination in academic subjects. Also, defects in executive functions aggravate the academic procrastination of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Objectives: Validating the suicide behavior scale can provide a better assessment of the quality and nature of behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the factor structure and validity of the Suicide Behavior Assessment Scale in female high school students in Kerman City in 2021. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, statistical population included all female high school students in Kerman city in 2021. A sample size of 682 was selected using cluster random sampling method. Data were collected through two suicide behavior assessment scales and the Cull and Gill’s Suicide Probability Scale. Content validity, convergent validity, structural validity, and internal consistency methods were used to examine the validity and reliability of the scale. Results: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Suicide Behavior Assessment Scale consists of three factors that explain 62.88% of the variance of suicide behavior. The content validity ratio and content validity index were acceptable for all questions. This questionnaire, along with the Cull and Gill’s Suicide Probability Scale, with 16 items, had appropriate concurrent validity (p<0.001). The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the entire scale was 0.84 and for subscales ranged from 0.87 to 0.95. Conclusion: The 16-item Suicide Behavior Assessment Scale has appropriate reliability and validity for female high school students. Therefore, this scale can be used to evaluate the status of suicide behavior in female high school students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Objectives: Hemodialysis patients are exposed to psychological risks related to health. Cognitive behavioral therapy can play an effective role in improving psychological characteristics related to health. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on self-awareness, emotional regulation, and quality of life of hemodialysis patients in Kerman. Materials and Methods: The present study is a quasi-experimental one with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design and a control group. The statistical population of this research was the patients of Shafa Hospital and Javad Al-Aima Clinic in Kerman in 2022. For this research 30 hemodialysis patients were selected using convenience sampling based on inclusion criteria, and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups of 15 subjects. The experimental group went under 8 sessions of 75 minutes twice a week, while the control group was held back on training. The evaluations of the participants were conducted using questionnaires of self-awareness, emotion regulation, and quality of life. The collected data were analyzed using two-way repeated measures ANOVA. Results: The mean scores of coherent self-knowledge, emotion regulation, and quality of life before the intervention were 26.68, 37.93, 60.27 in the cognitive behavioral therapy group and 26.67, 37.95, 59.60 in the control group (p>0.05), respectively. After the intervention, a significant increase was observed in the mean score of the investigated psychological characteristics in the cognitive behavioral therapy group compared to the control group (p<0.001). Conclusion: The results of the study showed the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy intervention in the improvement of psychological characteristics in the experimental group. Therefore, this intervention can be used as a complementary treatment in hemodialysis patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Good governance is an unavoidable requirement to improve the health of the administrative system in a society. Thus, the purpose of this study is to design an effective model of good governance based on the proposed criteria of Muslim thinkers for organizational health in governmental organizations in Kerman province. Regarding the purpose, this research is applied, it is descriptive of correlational type in terms of nature, and is survey considering method. The statistical population includes all employees and managers working in governmental organizations and offices in Kerman (2310 people). The sample size was estimated to be 321 based on Morgan's table, and were chosen by simple random sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to gather data. The validity of the good governance questionnaire was 94% based on the proposed criteria of Muslim thinkers and the validity of the organization's health questionnaire was 93%. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaires was calculated to be 0.91 and 0.88; respectively. Spearman correlation test through SPSS software was used to analyze the data. Based on the results at a significant level of less than 0.05, the correlation coefficients of Spearman between the components of: accountability and the right to express good governance (0.156), political stability and the absence of good governance violence (0.154), the effectiveness of government Good governance (0.122), regulatory quality of good governance (0.238), the authority of good governance law (0.342), and the inhibition of good governance corruption (0.178) and organizational health were positive and significant. Considering that the capacity of a governing system to support the country's macro-strategies and policies for public welfare is increasingly recognized as the basis for the progress and development of society, government officials should double their efforts to solve the problems in the field of health system for achieving the goals of the upstream documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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