Aim and Background: Today, children's aggression is one of the most common and one of the important reasons for their referral to psychotherapists. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of story therapy and music therapy on the executive functions of aggressive female students. Methods and Materials: In this quasi-experimental study, 45 aggressive students were randomly selected from among elementary school female students in Karaj in the academic year 2020-2021 and were randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group. The research instruments included primary school children aggression questionnaires, Wisconsin test, continuous performance test and Stroop test. The experimental groups underwent story therapy in 11 sessions and music therapy in 8 sessions. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance. Findings: There was a significant difference between the effectiveness of story therapy and music therapy on executive functions (p <0.001) of aggressive female students. The mean scores of executive functions in the post-test of music therapy were significantly higher than the mean scores of the story therapy group and the control group (p <0.001). Conclusions: Story therapy and music therapy have an effective role in improving the executive functions of aggressive female students. Also, music therapy has a greater effect on increasing performance indicators (cognitive flexibility, sustained attention and inhibition) of aggressive female students than story therapy. Therefore, it is suggested that these treatments be performed by specialists in these fields to help aggressive students in educational and therapeutic environments. The results of this research can have many educational implications.
Aim and Background:The aim of this research was to investigate the structural model of self-care based on disease perception, social support and collaborative decision-making with the mediating role of self-efficacy in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods and Materials:In a cross-sectional study, the number of 800 patients with type 2 diabetes (331 men and 469 women) in the hospitals of Qom province, they were selected by random sampling method. The data were collected using the questionnaire of cognitive population and disease perception, family social support questionnaire, self-efficacy in diabetic patients, diabetes self-care questionnaire and patient participation in treatment decision making questionnaire and by the model. Finding the structural equation (SEM) with AMOS24 and SPSS26 software were analyzed. Also, correlation, t-test and chi-square were used at the descriptive level and to compare the data. After evaluating the fit of the model, the coefficients between the variables were examined. Most of the paths with significant coefficients were kept in the final model, and the paths with non-significant coefficients or some path coefficients with weak significance were deleted from the final model for theoretical reasons. Findings: The findings were as follows 1- The measurement model of research variables has a good fit. 2- Disease perception has a direct and indirect effect on the self-care of type 2 diabetic patients. 3-Social support has a direct and indirect effect on the self-care of type 2 diabetic patients. 4- Participatory decision-making has a direct and indirect effect on the self-care of type 2 diabetic patients. Conclusions:Most of the relationships between these variables in this research were consistent with previous studies and existing theories
