Journal of Research in Educational Systems

Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on students' academic resilience and self-esteem in the academic year 96-97. The research was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of method, experimental and pretest-posttest with control group. The study population consisted of all female first and second grade high school students in Bam and Safi Abad region of Esfarayen. The sample consisted of all students whose scores on resiliency and self-esteem questionnaires were lower than average, among which 40 students were randomly selected and divided into experimental and control groups (20 each). Research instruments were the Samuels Academic Resiliency Questionnaire (2004) and Cooper Smith Self-Esteem Questionnaire (1967). The mindfulness-based stress reduction program was administered only to the experimental group during eight ninety-minute sessions. Data were analyzed using multivariate covariance test. Results showed that mindfulness-based stress reduction program had a positive effect on academic resilience and its components as well as on self-esteem and its components (except for family self-esteem component) (P <0.001). As a result, mindfulness-based stress reduction program was effective in increasing self-esteem and academic resiliency.

Abstract The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between organizational support, self-esteem and job satisfaction in Zabol University staff. The covariate method was used to determine 3 samples from the Zabul University staff, and 217 individuals were selected using simple random sampling method. Were. Data were collected from standard organizational support programs of Alan et al. (2008), Cooper Smith Self-esteem (1990) and Minnesota Job Satisfaction (2009), which assess the relevance of job placement and validity. Also by using the combined Mr Cronbach's equation 0.96, 0.77 and 0.95 were calculated respectively. For both data, SpSS23 and SmartPLS3 statistical software was developed. There was a significant relationship (P <0.05) between organizational support and employees 'self-esteem and job satisfaction, and job characteristics and organizational activity had a positive and significant relationship and job stress had a negative and significant relationship with employees' self-esteem. And it's their job satisfaction. . .

Abstract The study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of communication skills training on the increase of self-esteem and decrease of parent-child conflicts among female high school students. The method used quasi-experimental pre-post testing on the control group. The study population included female students in the first academic semester of 1393-94 of public high schools in district 13 of Tehran. A total of 30 individuals, who had earned the lowest score in Copper-smith Self- Esteem Inventory (CSEI) (1967) and the highest score in Strauss parent-child conflicts test (1990) were randomly selected as the sample group. Communication skills were presented to the experimental group in ten 90-minute weekly sessions as an independent variable. After the training, both the control and experimental groups were post-tested. Data analysis was performed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The results showed that communication skills training has an impact on the increase of self-esteem and decrease of parent-child conflicts.

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