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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Aim and Background: In our society, main pillar of life consist of religion and religious beliefs. and effort for religious training, specially in children, are principal solicitude’s administrators . also, base of child’s religious upbringing effect by their parent’s interaction. The purpose of the present research was to examine The relationship   between   children's perception   of parents violence in child rearing   and children's religious beliefs. Method and Materials: in a field-descriptive research   A sample of 122 elementry school students ages 6 to 11, ( 67 boys and 55 girls) was selected through cluster sampling by using a individual semi-structured interview and analyzing children's paitings gather necessary informations for attain the goals research. Frequency, frequency percent and chi- square were used for daita analysis. Findings: Results show that abused children (physical and verbal) painting god's image used symbol more than human images. In addithion to, abused children prefer to prayed on special time and in time of need and for their families. While children without abuse experiences attend to prayed regularly for their acquaintance , other people and spiritual objectives. Their priorites for praying were "Prayer for health and forgiveness of quilts for themselves and their relatives" and the lowest rank in children' prayers was "prayer for Emam zaman( redeemer )". Conclusions: results suggested to important role of parents and scholastic training. And they expand information about religious psychology in children to our present knowledge. Then they could be useful     for religious training in children.

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Aim and Background: Considering the verbal limitation in children, their low cooperation with therapist and lack of awareness of their emotions and actions have made their psychological assessment limited to the rating child behavior by parents or teachers or the use of behavioral observations. There is an urgent need to identify and apply diagnostic tools that can assess the child’s emotions from their perspective. Drawing a story is able to respond to these needs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate reliability, validity and standardization of drawing a story (DAS) among the children in elementary school of Shiraz, Iran. Methods and Materials: 500 primary school students from Shiraz were selected through multistage stratified random sampling. Subjects performed DAS and child behavior checklist (CBCL) was filled out by their parents. Data was analyzed using Spearman correlation coefficient, Kappa’s agreement coefficient, Cronbach's alpha and one way ANOVA. Findings: Cronbach's alpha was 0.82 for emotional scale, and reliability was 0.69, 0.64 and 0.58 for emotional content, self-image and using humor, respectively. Convergent validity was calculated by determining the correlation coefficient with child behavior checklist (CBCL). It was used in the comparison of the validity of the differential scores of children in three groups (depressed, aggressive and normal). Conclusions: Results of this study showed that drawing a story has psychometric properties for utilizing in psychological research and clinical diagnosis.