Background: In the 20th century, especially over the last decades, there have been new interpretations of beauty; and beauty is defined to include a set of components such as fitness, using cosmetics, clothing, attractiveness, and physical perfection. Objectives: The present study was aimed to examine the effect of acceptance-based and commitment-based therapy on body image in women between the ages of thirty and forty after beauty surgeries. Methods: This research was semi-experimental, using a pre-test post-test design, with a control group. The statistical population consisted of all individuals who visited Sepita Skin and Health Care Clinic, from whom 15 women were considered for a control group and 15 women were considered for an experiment group. Data collection tools included a body image questionnaire. Data were analyzed using a single-variable covariance analysis method. Results:The results of body image covariance analysis (ANCOVA) show that there is a significant difference between body image mean values in control and experiment groups, in terms of post-test scores. The women of the experiment group had a better condition than the women of the control group in terms of body image. Conclusions: Based on findings, it can be stated that commitment-based and acceptance-based therapy affects body image in women between the ages of thirty and forty after beauty surgeries.

Background: Self-adjustment-based learning is an important educational, scholarly, and experimental approach in educative, cognitive, and clinical psychology. Objectives: The present study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of teaching self-adjustment-based learning strategies in understanding of Islamic Azad University's (Research and Science Unit in Tehran) students' competencies and motivational beliefs. Methods: Research method was practical in terms of objective; and in terms of data collection method, it was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test type. The statistical population of the study consisted of all psychology students in Islamic Azad University, from whom 30 individuals were selected for a control group (15 individuals) and an experimental group (15 individuals), using a convenience sampling method. Data were collected using a self-made questionnaire for competency comprehension and Pintrich and DeGroot's motivational strategies for learning questionnaire. The analysis of the obtained data was done through SPSS software in two sections: descriptive (frequency, percentile frequency, mean, standard deviation, and variations) and inferential (covariance analysis). Results: Results showed that teaching self-adjustment-based learning strategies affects Islamic Azad University's psychology students' understanding of competencies and motivational beliefs. In addition, findings showed that due to self-adjustment-based learning strategies, students' understanding of competencies increased. Conclusions: Teaching self-adjustment-based learning strategies helps to enhance motivational beliefs.

Background: Adolescence is a sensitive stage of life, where adolescents experience considerable emotional, physical, and intellectual changes. Hence, any delay in emotional maturity might be followed by serious problems in interpersonal relationships of adolescents as well as social challenges; the criterion for determination of social growth is the ability to adapt to others. Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the relationships between life expectancy as well as social intelligence and adaptability to the mediating role of resistance in high school boys in Tehran. Methods: It was a correlational descriptive study; the statistical population consisted of all high school boys in Tehran, from whom 250 students were selected by cluster sampling method. Data collection was based on Snyder's et al. Results:The results showed that there is a significant relationship between life expectancy as well as social intelligence and the mediating role of resistance in high school boys in Tehran. It also showed that there is a significant relationship between life expectancy as well as adaptability dimensions (emotional, educational, and social) and the mediating role of resistance in high school boys in Tehran. Finally, it showed that there is a significant relationship between social intelligence well as adaptability dimensions (emotional, educational, and social) and the mediating role of resistance in high school boys. Conclusions: Based on the results, it can be stated that resistance plays an intermediary role in life expectancy and social intelligence with social adjustment.