ObjectivesThis study aimed at studying the effect of teaching spiritual intelligence principles on death anxiety among senior citizens living in retirement homes of Sanandaj City. Methods & Materials This study was a practical and quasi-experimental research performed by pre-and posttesting the control and experimental groups. The statistical population comprised all elderly residents of retirement homes in Sanandaj City. Twenty subjects were selected by convenient sampling from among the individuals who were willing to participate in the study and who received a high score in the death anxiety scale. They were then equally divided into two groups (10 subjects per group). The fear of death scale devised by Collet-Lester (1969) was used for pre-testing the subjects. The members of the experimental group received Spiritual Intelligence-based intervention in eight 90-minute sessions. The control group received no such intervention during this period. After the intervention, all the subjects were post-tested. The collected data were analyzed by the one-way and multi-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the SPSS-22 software. Results The mean and standard deviation of the age of the experimental group was 62.5±5.68 years and control group was 63.1±4.33 years. The results of covariance analysis showed a significant difference in post-test between the experimental group (120.9±4.81) and the control group (131.3±8.65) (P≤0.01). So, the results indicate that educating the subjects about spiritual intelligence components reduced their death anxiety (P≤0.01). The intervention also reduced the death of others and dying of others dimensions in the subjects (P≤0.01), but no significant impact was observed for the death of self and dying of self dimensions. Conclusion According to the findings, teaching spiritual intelligence principles reduces death anxiety. Therefore, it is recommended that more attention should be paid to teaching spiritual aspects in retirement centers. . Therefore, it is necessary to identify the factors responsible for reducing death anxiety. Given this background, this study aimed to investigate the effect of teaching the components of spiritual intelligence on the amount of death anxiety in the elderly living in Sanandaj's nursing homes. To achieve this goal, two questions were considered and examined: 1) A B S T R A C T 111Is the training of spiritual intelligence components effective in reducing death anxiety?; and 2) Does learning the components of spiritual intelligence reduce the dimensions of death anxiety (death of yourself, seeing you are dying, death of your neighbors, seeing dying relatives)? Methods and MaterialsThis study is applied research in terms of purpose, and it is semi-pilot with pre-test-post-test and control group in terms of implementation method. The statistical population of the research was all people living in nursing homes in Sanandaj in the first half of 2016. The sample selection process was as follows. After obtaining the necessary legal permissions, 100 Death Anxiety In...

Background & objectives: Considering the prevalence of psychological problems in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), some reports have recognized the effectiveness of emotional self-regulation model prior to conventional therapies in these patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotional self-regulation model to improve the components of life quality in MS patients. Methods: This study was a semi-experimental with pre-and post-test, and control group. The quality of life test was performed on 220 MS patients in Tabriz, 2018.40 patients who had unsatisfactory scores were selected and divided randomly into experiment and control groups. The intervention was conducted in the form of emotional self-regulation training in twelve 90 min sessions per week. Quality of life test was performed again in each group 10 days and three months after the end of the intervention. Data were analyzed using covariance analysis. Results: Analyzed data showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of post-test in the experiment and control groups (p<0.01), indicating that emotional self-regulation training improves the components of quality of life in the experimental group. Also, the emotional self-regulation model had a lasting effect on the quality of life of MS patients after a three-month follow-up. Conclusion: Taking into consideration the positive psychiatric effects of emotional selfregulation it is recommended to conduct such training programs for MS patients to improve their mental health.

Introduction: Death anxiety can be one of the important psychological diagnoses in cancer patients.Aim: The peresent study aimed at predicting death anxiety based on emotional self-regulation and self-efficacy in cancer patients.Method: This is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population included all of cancer patients in Kermanshah city in the years 2019. A sample of 150 cancer patients were randomly selected. Measurement tools included death anxiety questionnaire, Gross and John emotional self-regulation questionnaire, Scherrer self-efficacy questionnaire. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient and Concurrent regression were used. Results:The results showed that there is no significant relationship between emotional selfregulation and death anxiety (P=0.29, R=-0.087). But there is a significant inverse relationship between self-efficacy and death anxiety (P<0.001). Although The results of regression analysis showed that emotional self-regulation and self-efficacy predict 15% of the variance of the death anxiety variable. Conclusion:Based on the findings in this study, it is necessary to emphasize these psychological characteristics in educational, prevention and treatment programs in hospitals.

Introduction: Distress intolerance, difficulty in emotion regulation, and marital conflicts affect the quality of the couples life. Aim: The present study investigated the effectiveness of marital adjustment training on couples distress intolerance, difficulty in emotion regulation, and marital conflict. Method: The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a control and experimental group. The study sample included 30 couples referring to counseling centers in 2019-2020 that were divided randomly in two experimental and control groups. Afterward, marital adjustment training was provided to the experimental group during eight sessions, and the control group did not receive any intervention. Simmons and Gaher distress tolerance questionnaires, Grotz and Roemer difficulty in emotion regulation, and Sanai and Barati marital conflicts were used in this study. The data were analyzed by covariance using SPSS software version 22. Results: The results showed marital adjustment training was effective on reducing distress intolerance (f=142.76 and P<0.01), the level of difficulty in emotion regulation (f=146.94 and P<0.01), and marital conflicts (P<0.01 and f=426.21). Accordingly, distress intolerance, difficulty in emotion regulation, and marital conflict were significantly reduced in the treatment group compared with the control group who did not receive any intervention. Conclusion: The findings indicated that marital adjustment training could be an effective intervention in counseling centers for couples with communicative problems.

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