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Aim and Background: Psychological climate perceptions have received considerable attention in the organizational literature and have been used to predict a variety of important individual and organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction, burnout, job involvement, organizational citizenship behavior, psychological empowerment, job control and job performance. The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between perceived psychological climate with job control. Method and Materials: In a cross-sectional correlative study, a sample of 459 employees were selected through simple random sampling from the Snowa industrial factory whole staff. The instruments used in the study included psychological climate questionnaire and job control questionnaire. The validities of both questionnaires were confirmed by confirmatory factor analyses and the reliabilities of the two questionnaires were confirmed measuring the Cronbach&rsquo;s Alpha. Data were analyzed using pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis. Findings: The results showed significant relationships (P < 0.01) between all of the psychological climate components (autonomy, cohesion, trust, pressure, support, recognition, fairness and innovation) with job control. The results of the stepwise regression analyses showed that the components of autonomy, support, cohesion and innovation have significant predictive power for predicting job control and its domains. Conclusions: This study describes a process through which employees&rsquo; perceptions of work environment (psychological climate) can predict their job control. This research shows how an environment that is perceived as psychologically safe and meaningful by employees is related to greater job control in the organization.

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Aim and Background: Cognitive emotion regulation is a kind of coping strategy that helps individuals in coping with trauma. The aim of this study was the investigation of the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation and posttraumatic growth in men and women with hepatitis B. Methods and Materials: The statistical population of this study consisted of all men and women with hepatitis B in Hepatitis Research Center of Namazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran. The study subjects were 250 patients with hepatitis B (125 men and 125 women). The participants were randomly selected and completed the Garnefski&rsquo;s Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and Tedeschi&rsquo;s and Calhon&rsquo;s Posttraumatic Growth Inventory. Data analysis was performed in SPSS software using the Pearson correlation and MANOVA. Findings: Posttraumatic growth had positive significant relationships with acceptance, refocusing on planning, positive reappraisal, and coping with perspective (r = 0.47 and P < 0.001, r = 0.21 and P = 0.001, r = 0.25 and P < 0001, and r = 0.38 and P < 0001, respectively). In addition, it had negative significant relationships with self-blame, blaming others, catastrophizing, and rumination (r = -0.38 and P < 0.001, r = -0.42 and P < 0.001, r = -0.60 and P < 0.001, and r = -0.14 and P = 0.021, respectively). Moreover, men used the strategies of positive refocusing, refocusing on planning, and positive reappraisal more than women. Women used the strategies of rumination, catastrophizing, and blaming others more than men (P < 0001). Conclusions: The results of the present study showed that using adjusted cognitive emotion regulation increases posttraumatic growth in individuals with hepatitis B. Moreover, women with hepatitis B use maladjusted cognitive emotional regulation more than men. Therefore, the results of this research can be useful in the evaluation and improvement of the level of use of adaptive cognitive emotional regulation strategies. In future studies, emotional regulation strategies can be compared between patients with other chronic illnesses.

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Aim and Background: Chronic pain is one of the most common and expensive medical problems. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion focused therapy and cognitive analytic therapy on anxiety sensitivity, pain catastrophizing, experiential avoidance and cognitive emotion regulation in patients with chronic pain and alexithymia.
Methods and Materials: This research was experiential study with pre, post-test and follow-up with control group. Among patients suffering from chronic in Isfahan, using available and voluntary sampling method, 36 patients that had top point in alexithymia questionnaire were selected and then  were assigned in two groups randomly (each group n=12). Members of first experimental group, received online emotion-focused group therapy and members of second experimental group received online cognitive-analytic group therapy. In this period control group didn’t received any intervention. Instruments were Karnfeskesʼs Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2001), Solivanʼs Pain Catastrophizing Scale (1995), Taylor and Koksʼes Anxiety Sensitinty Inventort (1998), Acceptance and Action Questionaire (2011) that were completed in 3 stages of pre, post-rest and follow up. Data were analyzed using repeated measure analysis.
Findings: Reults showed that the emotion focused therapy has been more effective than the cognitive analytic therapy in improving pain catastrophizing, experiential avoidance and the negative aspect of cognitive emotion regulation (P<0.05).
Conclusions: With respect to the effectiveness of these two therapeutic methods on the research variables, these two therapeutic methods can be sought so as to improve the conditions of the patients with chronic pain and alexithymia.