Stress and Coping Strategies in Women With and Without Intimate-Partner Violence Experiences Background: Intimate-Partner Violence (IPV) is considered a disastrous social phenomenon. Apparently, women are more likely to suffer from the negative impacts of this problem. This study aimed to study and compare vulnerability to stress and coping strategies in women with and without IPV. Methods: This study was a descriptive and cross-sectional research. The study sample was recruited by convenience sampling method. A total of 70 women with IPV and 70 women without IPV were matched by age and educational level. The relevant data were collected by Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and analyzed using 1-way ANOVA in SPSS V. 22. Results: The findings revealed a significant difference between coping strategies used by the two groups; women with IPV employed more emotional-focused coping strategies compared to women without IPV (P<0.001). Moreover, vulnerability to stress in women without IPV was less than the women with IPV experiences (P<0.001). Conclusion: According to the findings, it is recommended that the coping strategy skills of women experiencing IPV be enhanced and their marital conflicts be resolved.

Background:Few studies indicate that most behavioral problems are due to family dysfunction and inappropriate family environment. It seems that the family of the delinquent adolescent is unbalanced in the power structure and parenting style.Objectives:The present study compares the family power structure and parent-child relationship quality in delinquent and non-delinquent young subjects in Tehran.Patients and Methods:Eighty students of secondary schools aged between 15 and 18 in Tehran were enrolled with cluster sampling method and 80 delinquent adolescents of the Correction and Rehabilitation Centers aged between 15 and 18 were chosen with a convenience sampling method. They responded to an instrument of family power structure (Child–parents relationship inventory). Data was compared between these two groups by utilizing the independent and dependent t-test and Levene’s test.Results:The findings indicated there is a significant difference between delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents in family power structure and its subscales (P < 0.001) and father-child relationship quality (P < 0.005). Also, there is no statistically significant difference between these two groups in mother-child relationship quality (P < 0.005). Besides, the results revealed that delinquent adolescents were significantly different regarding the quality of parent-child relationship (P < 0.001).Conclusions:These results emphasize that an inappropriate decision making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior in adolescents. The fathers’ parenting is more strongly linked to their sons’ delinquency. So, family power structure and parent-child relationship can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescents’ delinquency.

The comparison between perceived body image and sexual assertiveness in athletic and non-athletic married women Anahita khodabakhshi Koolaee (1) Hamid Rastak (2) Ebrahim Nemati (3) Masoumeh Rahmatizadeh (4)

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching emotional intelligence on assertiveness and self-esteem in female students. This research was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control group. The participants were allocated to two matched groups based on their pre-test scores. They were assigned randomly to the control and experimental groups. The used tools in this research were Coopersmith's self-esteem inventory and the assertiveness scale of adolescent (ASA). Unilateral and multivariate analyses of covariance were employed to analyse the data. Result: The findings indicated there is not a significant difference between mother with or without children with speech disorder in positive, negative and expressed emotion (p<0.05). Also, there is a statistically significant difference between these two groups in caregiver burden (p<0.05). Besides, the results revealed that there is a significant association between caregiver burden and expressed emotion (p<0.005). Conclusion: According to these findings, it seems that emotional intelligence in students can be one of the preventing factors in behavioral problems.

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