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Background & aim: Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most important health problems of people with undesirable consequences on family councils. The aim of the present study was to compare the executive function and difficulties in emotion regulation in addicted with upper and lower borderline personality traits.

Methods: The present causal-comparative study included all male drug abusers who had been referred to addiction treatment centers. 80 addicts were selected by accessible sampling method and using a borderline personality traits (STB). Then, they were divided into two groups of 40 people for drug addicts in high and low. Using The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and the scale of difficulty in the emotional regulation was conducted on two groups. Statistical data using multivariate analysis of variance MANOVA and LSD test were analyzed.

 

Results: The results indicated that compared to drug addicts with high borderline traits, the ones with low borderline traits had lower performance in Wisconsin Card Sorting Test  and the number of perseveration errors (p = 0.018) and total error (p = 0.002) was higher. Moreover, addicts with high borderline traits varied significantly higher scores in difficulty in emotional regulation (p=0.002) of the drug with low borderline personality traits.

 

Conclusion: The results indicated that addicts with high borderline traits, had weaker performance in executive function and higher levels of difficulty with emotional regulation. This may be due to neurological effects of drug addiction on their performance which leads to poorer performance compared with drug people with low borderline traits.

 

 

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Background and aim: Psychological well-being has been raised in the field of positive psychology and has focused on mental health from an individual's growth and efficiency angle rather than being patient. Identifying the personality building of individuals and adopting appropriate patterns is also of considerable importance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being with mediation as the role of forgiveness.

Methods: The present research was a descriptive and causal correlation study. The statistical population consisted of all students of Yasuj University, among which 301 students (171 girls, 130 boys) were selected by multi-stage random sampling. The instruments used were Reiff Psychological Well-being Questionnaire (PVBS), NEO Personality Questionnaire (NEO) and Hartland Forgiveness Questionnaire (HFS). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling (SEM).

Results: The results showed that there was a significant relationship between personality traits (extraversion = p <0.01, r = 0.32), agreement (p <0.01), r = 0.33, openness to experience (p <0.01), and conscientiousness There was a positive and significant relationship between psychological well-being and psychological well-being (r = 0.41, r = 0.41, r = 0.41, r = 0.41). Also, the results showed that the relationship between forgiveness (forgiveness R = 0.27, r = 0.27, r = 0.27), forgiveness in position (r = 0.20, r = 0.23) was positive and significant with psychological well-being. The results obtained from structural equation modeling also indicated that the path coefficient of features Personality to psychological well-being (β = 0.33) and forgiveness for psychological well-being Β = 258/0 is significant at the level of p≤0.01. Also, the results of indirect relations, the role of forgiveness mediators and the significance of these relationships have been confirmed.

Conclusion: Personality traits were directly and indirectly related to forgiveness with psychological well-being. The results of this study have been discussed with respect to previous studies and some of its applications have been discussed.

 

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Background & aim: Extramarital affairs is a shocking issue for couples and families that play a major role in marital conflicts and couples' tendency towards divorce. The purpose of this study was to determine and predict marital satisfaction based on personality traits and coping styles in married people with extramarital relationships in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.
 
Methods: The research method adopted was correlational in nature. The study population consisted of all married people who due to extramarital affairs in the years 2016-2017 had referred to the welfare divorce reduction centers of K.B province, counseling centers of K.B provinces, as well as courts and other related cases. The sample group consisted of 234 people who were selected by the available sampling and according to the satisfaction of individuals to participate in the research. For the purpose of data collection, use was made of three questionnaires, namely NEO Personality Inventory, Marital Satisfaction Scale Enrich Questionnaire and Indler and Parker Coping Styles.
 
Results: The findings indicated that Personality Traits and Coping Styles had a significant correlation with Marital Satisfaction. The results correspondingly revealed that the characteristics of extraversion, agreementability, problem-oriented and emotion-oriented explain a total of 29% of the variance of marital satisfaction. In addition, the variables of extraversion, agreementability, problem-oriented and emotion-oriented with beta of 0.21, 0.10, and -0.09, respectively, had a significant contribution in predicting marital satisfaction.
 
Conclusion: Generally speaking, the findings of the present study indicated that extraversion was the strongest predictor of marital satisfaction. Moreover, personality traits and coping styles were the psychological foundation of people's stable relationships with others and were therefore a key predictor of marital satisfaction.
 
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Background & aim: Divorce brings emotional separation and psychological pressures for most women, which requires the most changes for re-adaptation in these people. Therefore, the purpose of the present research was to determine and develop a structural model of adjustment after divorce based on social and psychological factors in divorced women in Shiraz.

Methods: The present descriptive correlational study was conducted in Shiraz city in 2018. The statistical population of the study included all divorced women who were divorced for at least two years and were not remarried. 416 samples were selected through available sampling from fifteen psychological clinics under the supervision of welfare and family courts. Moreover, they were evaluated through Fisher's post-divorce adjustment questionnaires, Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Questionnaire, Bell's Social Adjustment Questionnaire, Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire, Neo Short Form Five-Factor Personality Questionnaire, and Emotion Cognitive Regulation Strategies Questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation, multiple regression and Fisher's statistical tests.

Results: The results indicated that the variables of perceived support, attachment styles and personality traits through the variables of cognitive regulation of emotion and social adjustment had a significant effect on adjustment after divorce (p<.05). Unreconciled emotion regulation had a negative and significant effect on post-divorce adjustment (p<.05). The adjusted emotion regulation variable had a positive and significant effect on post-divorce adjustment directly and indirectly through social adjustment (p<.05). Finally, the social adjustment variable had a positive and significant effect on post-divorce adjustment (p<.05). Social adjustment was the strongest predictor of adjustment after divorce (0.63) than personality traits (0.59). Secure attachment style had the greatest effect on post-divorce adjustment through compromised emotion regulation (0.26). Furthermore, the personality trait of neuroticism had the greatest impact on post-divorce adjustment through compromised emotion regulation (0.52). Friends' support through social adjustment had the greatest effect on post-divorce adjustment (0.43). Planning strategy through social adjustment had the greatest impact on post-divorce adjustment (0.34). The mentioned variables explain a total of 65% of the variance of adjustment after divorce.

Conclusion: The structural model revealed that some social and psychological factors were able to predict adjustment after divorce, and the results of the present study can be studied and be useful for counseling clinics, psychology and other institutions that are responsible for the health of society.