Objectives : The present study was carried out to evaluate the predictive value of parental quality of life on abusive behavior with children. Method: This study investigated the life quality of the parents of 38 abused boys detected in the second grade of secondary schools of selected areas of Tehran. The results were compared with students matched for age and area of residency, without recent suffering of child abuse. Results: The findings revealed a lower quality of life of the parents of abused subjects at significant level in contrast to the control group. Comparison of the profiles of the two groups revealed lower physical health, individuation, marital discourse , parent-child relationship, job satisfaction, artistic-creative behavior and leisure time activity in the parents of abused children. Stepwise regression analysis revealed that the scores of marital discourse and artistic-creative behavior scales can successfully predict the variations of abusive scores. The mentioned scales showed significant effect on abusive scores in multivariate analysis. Conclusion: The quality of parents marital discourse and artistic-creative behavior have the greatest predictive value for parents' abusive behavior .

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Objectives: Current study is investigating the effects of teaching emotional intelligence factors on the enhancement of mental health.

Method: In this experimental design, 30 male and female clients within the 20-25 years of age who had presented to the counseling centres were first selected and randomly put into two study and control groups. After pre-testing the two groups by the 133-item Bar-on Emotional Intelligence Test and SCL-90-R, the study group was provided with 12 weekly 2-hours training sessions on the emotional intelligence factors. Post-testing of the two groups was then conducted.

Results: Treated data through co-variance analysis and one-way multivariate analysis of variance showed that training on the emotional intelligence factors was significantly effective in the improvement of mental health (p<0.001) and has reduced symptoms in mental health disorders.

Conclusion: Training on the emotional intelligence factors promotes mental health and the individual will score higher in the personal reports of internal situations and in feeling capable of facing the problems.

Objectives: The aim of this research was to investigate the predictive role of emotional intelligence and religious coping in relapse or recovery from substance abuse. Method: 62 male subjects who had presented to two addiction detoxification centers in the city of Nafajabad, Iran, and who were selected using convenience sampling, were divided into an abstinent (31 individuals with a history of at least one year abstinence) and relapsed (31 individuals with an abstinence history less than one year) groups. Data were gathered using Religious Coping Scale and Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and were analyzed using discriminate analysis test and independent t-test. Results: The relapsed and non-relapsed individuals were significantly different in Internal/Private Religious Coping (p<0.001), External/Social Religious Coping (p<0.05), and Emotional Intelligence (0.001). Also, discriminate analysis test showed that 79% of relapsed and non-relapsed individuals can be distinguished based on internal/private coping and emotional intelligence.  Conclusion: Internal private religious coping is the most important factor in distinguishing and categorizing the individuals presenting to addiction abstinence centers into abstinent and relapsed groups.