per Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 1735-4315 2228-7515 1996-02 2 3 6 12 article Fereidoon Mehrabi 1 Department of Psychiatry. Iran University of Medical Sciences The study investigated the relation between psychosocial factors and the etiology of Iranian transsexualists in a retrospective design. Records of 68 patients, between the years 1989 to 1995 who had been visited in one clinic were studied (11 records were not analyzed, because of the lack of required information, lack of diagnostic criteria and concomitant other mental disorders). Results showed that the chief referral source was psychiatrists, males were twice as frequent as females, the patients were gaed between 20 to 30 years old. Most of the patients didn't seek treatment, instead sought legal consent to change their gender. Although, we cannot point to a certain psychosocial factor but in all cases, there were a disruption in inter – personal relationships and in their family relations. http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1686-en.pdf per Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 1735-4315 2228-7515 1996-02 2 3 13 19 article Hosein Molavy 1 Department of Educational Sciences Despite the fact that the contents of items on the Raven's Progressive Matrices have little similarity to the content of subjects taught in school, the correlation coefficients between IQ scores and achievement test scores have been estimated to be about 0.5. Six groups of 20 students were randomly selected from the first, second, and third grades of urban and rural guidance schools in Shahrebabak, one of Kerman province cities. Raven's progresive matrices intelligence test was administerred. The data on the child's grade point average, his father's occupation and education were also obtained. The results showed that there are significant correlations among the child's IQ, his grade point average, and his father's occuparion was not significant. The analysis of regression showed that the child's IQ is the best predictor of his grade point average and that the addition of father's level of education to the regression equation does not signifiacntly increase the power of prediction. An expectancy table was obtained, according to which the probability of grade point average being below 15 can be predicted from the child's IQ score. http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1687-en.pdf per Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 1735-4315 2228-7515 1996-02 2 3 20 29 article Ali akbar Haghdoust 1 Koroush Rouas 2 Jafar Kameli 3 Nour ahmad Latifi 4 Iran University of Iran University of Medical sciences Member of Student's Research Committee Iran University of Medical sciences Member of Student's Research Committee Iran University of Medical sciences Member of Student's Research Committee Iran University of Medical Sciences This article studied cultural factors influencing the choice of spouse in a samlpe of 300 students of Iran University of medical Sciences, 59.1% being medical students and the rest nonmedical. The average age of the sample was 21.6. Results showed that there was a significant difference between the two sesex regarding the age of marriage, and all of them agreed that engagement s essential. Temporar marriage, characteristics of ideal spouse, marriage motives factrs inhibiting marriage were explored and recommendations were made for improvement of students' atttude towards marriage http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1692-en.pdf per Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 1735-4315 2228-7515 1996-02 2 3 30 37 article Abbas Attari 1 Nazal Sarrafzadegan 2 Gholamreza Ghassemi 3 Department of Psychiatry, Isfahan University Department of Psychiatry, Isfahan University Department of Psychiatry This paper reports the preliminary findings of a large scale study on stressful life events, conducted in Isfahan city-in center of Iran. The purpose of this study was to explore the positive and negative stressful events experienced by some of the inhabitants of this city over the past 5 years. 422 randomly selected individuals belonging to 100 families were interviewed. The interview schedule contained open-ended and multiple-choice questions. Results showed that divorce, husband's unfaithfullness, difficulty in finding living accomodations, homelessness, social insecurity, shortage of drugs, and job dismissal were preceived by them as the most severe and negative stressful events. On the other hand, birth of a new baby, engagement, (nikah), marriagem edcational achievement, and Haj pilgrimage were perceived by them as good omens. The most common stressful events were prices rise, low income, serious sickness and loss of a family member. Financial economic problems turned out to be the most crucial events that a sizeable number of respondents showed serious concern about them. http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1693-en.pdf per Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 1735-4315 2228-7515 1996-02 2 3 32 38 article Ayoub Malek 1 Saeed Dastgiri 2 Department of Psychiatry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences – Razi, psychiatric Center Department of Epidemiology, Tabriz University of Sciences, Razi Psychiatric Center The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of moon phases on suicides, car accidents, and psychic crises. The data were obtained from archives of Imam Khomeini Hospital, Traffic Office, and Razi Psychiatric Hospital in Tabriz. The sample consisted of 808 suicide cases and 6301 cases of city car accidents in 1989, and 3632 cases admitted to psychiatric hospital during the years 1989-1991 and the first half of 1992. The dates of all these events were converted from solar calendor to the relevant lunar calendar. The data from solar calendar were analyzed and the following results were obtained: 1- There was a significant increase (P<0.05) in the frequency of suicides per day around full moon days as compared with similar figures for other lunar days. 2- Frequency of car accidents during different lunar days showed significant differences (P<0.01), the maximum being observed around full moon days. 3- Frequency of psychiatric patients admitted to the hospital in different lunar days showed significances (P<0.05) again the maximum occuring around ful moon days. The results of this study provide evidence for the existence of some monthly biological rhythms in human beings associated with lunar periodical changes. We suggest further studies on anatomical and physiological aspects of these montly rhythms. http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1704-en.pdf per Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 1735-4315 2228-7515 1996-02 2 3 38 44 article Badri Daneshamouz 1 2 DepartmeDepartment of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences Shaheed Navvab Safavi Psychiatric Center, Archives of 228 patients hospitalized at psychiatric centers of Iran University of Medical Sciences during the period 1994-1995. with the diagnosis of schizophernia were reviewed and data on birth order and family size were collected. Results showed that there was no significant relationship between disrtibution of illness and birth order. Most of patiennts were the last child – usually 9th or more. In small-size families, there was no significant difference between early and late born children, but in families with more than 4 children , patients belonged to late – born group. http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1703-en.pdf per Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 1735-4315 2228-7515 1996-02 2 3 53 54 article Ali Mohammad Mousavi 1 Moosa Kafi Masole 2 http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1705-en.pdf