Shahla Ostovar

University of Malaya | UM · Department of Educational Psychology & Counseling

Purpose The present study investigated the contribution of internet addiction (IA) as a mediator in the relationships between time spent online on early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and life satisfaction (LS) among a sample of Iranian adults. Methods The sample comprised 489 Iranian adults aged 19 to 62 years who completed an online survey. The data...

The internet has become ubiquitous in many people's lives to an extent that necessitates the investigation of its impact on marital relationships. There has been a lack of such studies in the Iranian context and the present study investigated the relationship between internet addiction and couple burnout. A total of 377 married individuals particip...

Intimacy is a key factor contributing to marriage satisfaction, marriage quality, marriage stability, and marriage functioning. Despite significant attention on marital intimacy, the focus of most research has either centered on the functions of marital intimacy or aspects of the construct in marriage satisfaction. Factors that influence couple int...

Cognitive reactivity (CR) to the experimental induction of sad mood has been found to predict relapse in recovered depressed patients. The Leiden Index of Depression Sensitivity Revised (LEIDS-R) is a self-report measure of CR. The aim of the present study was to establish the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the LEIDS-R. The part...

Internet addiction has become an increasingly researched area in many Westernized countries. However, there has been little research in developing countries such as Iran, and when research has been conducted, it has typically utilized small samples. This study investigated the relationship of Internet addiction with stress, depression, anxiety, and...

This study aimed to translate MIDAS questionnaire from English into Persian and determine its content validity and reliability. MIDAS was translated and validated on a sample (N = 110) of Iranian adult population. The participants were both male and female with the age range of 17-57. They were at different educational levels and from different eth...

The study validated the English version of the "Teacher Self-Regulation Scale" (TSRS) developed by Capa-Aydin, Sungur and Uzuntiryaki (2009) in an EFL context. The scale includes 40 items and one filler and it assesses teachers' self-regulation via nine subscales, namely, goal setting, intrinsic interest, performance goal orientation, mastery goal...

Depression is a psychiatric disorder and the most common illness of present century which is known as psychiatric cold. In order to diagnose this disease, various tests have been developed. The purpose of this research is to study reliability, validity and composing norms of Goldberg's depression scale. This research is applied. Goldberg's depressi...