Investigation of job satisfaction amongst voluntary, counseling and testing centers and health centers in Iran.

BACKGROUND: Job satisfaction is the persons' feeling about their job and if personnel have not good feel to his work, can destroy all plans, intentionally or unintentionally. The present research aims to investigate and compare job satisfaction in the employees and therapists of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers versus Health centers in 9 provinces of Iran. METHODS: All employees of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers were included from Fars, Bushehr, Tehran, Isfahan, South Khorasan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Kerman, and Yazd provinces as case group and 103 staffs of similar Health centers selected with the same ratio as the staffs of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers as control samples and answered to Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). RESULTS: 50.5% of Health centers employees and 54% of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers employees had high job satisfaction. The highest satisfaction levels were reported in Fars and Kurdistan provinces and the lowest satisfaction levels were reported in Kermanshah and Bushehr. CONCLUSION: According to the findings, in the Iranian treatment centers, the employees' satisfaction were at the same level regardless of their position and workplace. Also, the eastern and western regions of the country reported higher satisfaction score than the southern and central regions.

Posttraumatic growth in women with breast cancer: emotional regulation mediates satisfaction with basic needs and maladaptive schemas.

Background: Despite the negative consequences of breast cancer, many women experience positive changes after diagnosis. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of emotion regulation between post-traumatic growth (PTG), satisfaction of basic needs and maladaptive schemas. Method: A total of 210 female patients diagnosed with breast cancer for at least six months were assessed using measures of the PTG Inventory, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Scale, Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. The collected data was analysed using structural equation modelling by SPSS and Amos 23.0. Results: Basic needs and maladaptive schema paths to emotion regulation and PTG, and emotion regulation path to PTG were significant. In addition, maladaptive schemas path to emotion regulation was insignificant. Conclusion: The current results show that focusing on satisfaction of basic needs and using positive emotion regulation strategies positively affect PTG. Additionally, activating maladaptive schemas and using negative emotion regulation strategies have a negative effect on PTG.

Antecedentes: A pesar de las consecuencias negativas del cáncer de mama, muchas mujeres experimentan cambios positivos después del diagnóstico.Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio fue examinar el rol mediador de la regulación emocional entre el crecimiento postraumático (PTG, por sus siglas en ingles), la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas y los esquemas desadaptativos.Método: Fueron evaluadas un total de 210 pacientes mujeres con un diagnóstico de cáncer de mama de al menos 6 meses empleándose las medidas del Inventario del PTG, la Escala de Satisfacción de Necesidades Psicológicas Básicas, la forma abreviada del Cuestionario de Esquema de Young y el Cuestionario de Regulación Emocional. Los datos recolectados se analizaron usando modelos de ecuaciones estructurales mediante el SPSS y Amos 23.0.Resultados: Tanto las redes de las necesidades básicas y de los esquemas desadaptativos hacia la regulación emocional y el PTG, como la red de la regulación emocional hacia el PTG fueron significativas. Además, la red de los esquemas desadaptativos hacia la regulación emocional fue insignificante.Conclusión: Los resultados actuales muestran que focalizarse en la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas y en el uso de estrategias de regulación emocional positivas afecta positivamente al PTG. Adicionalmente, la activación de esquemas desadaptativos y el uso de estrategias de regulación emocional negativas tienen un efecto negativo en el PTG.

Coping styles in HIV positives and HIV negatives.

BACKGROUND: Choosing the most useful and versatile way to solve one's personal and social problems is one of the most important choices in individual life. The aim of this study was to compare the coping styles of people living with Human immunodeficiency virus positive and negative. METHODS: This is a Cross-sectional study that accomplished in Shiraz Behavioural Disease Counselling Centre in 2019 and 2020. For this purpose, in the first phase, 40 HIV+ and 40 HIV- patients were randomly selected to answer the questionnaire of dealing with the stressful conditions of Andler and Parker. In the second phase, the same questionnaire was filled out along with a reality distortion questionnaire from similar individuals (40 HIV+ and 40 HIV-). RESULTS: 92% of the HIV population in this study was between 15 and 55 years and 8% was upper than 55 years. 90% of them had no university degree. Among all, 47.5% of them were, 48.5% were self-employed and 49% of them were infected sexually. The results showed that in the first stage there was a significant relationship between marital status and the chances of getting the disease in people, and after controlling the demographic factors, coping styles did not show a significant effect on the disease. In the second stage, the factors of age, sex, education, and marital status had significant effects on people living with HIV, but the effect of coping styles on people with HIV was not significant (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Therefore, it can be concluded that demographic factors more than coping styles can affect the chances of high-risk behaviours; so, what is identified and measured as a coping style in people in the process that leads to the manifestation of high-risk behaviours or healthy behaviour does not matter much. It should be noted that the reason for rejecting the hypotheses of this study could be the effect of cultural and social factors of Iranian society.