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A social work study on family patterns and street children Pages 1167-1170 Download PDF

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Samaneh Salimi, Seyed Mohsen Khalifeh Soltani, Shahram Basity

Keywords: Family pattern, Social work study, Street children

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This paper presents a social work study on relationship between various family characteristics and street children in rural area as well as city of Esfahan, Iran. The proposed study selects a sample of 150 street children, 75 from city and 75 from rural area, and using some statistical tests verifies the effects of three factors including family income, place of residency and family size on street children. The results indicate that the city residence had more street children than rural residence did. In addition, there was a meaningful difference between the number of street children in low-income families and high-income families. Finally, the survey results indicate that big size families more likely suffered from street children than low size families did.

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A social work study on family patterns and child abuse Pages 1181-1184 Download PDF

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Hossein Ebrahimzadeh Asmin, Shahram Basity, Seyed Mohsen Khalifeh Soltani

Keywords: Child abuse, Family patterns, Social work study

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This paper presents a social work study on relationship between different family characteristics and child abuse in city of Jarghooye located in province of Esfahan, Iran. The proposed study selects a sample of 50 people and using some statistical tests verifies the effects of three factors including family income, family educational background and family size on child abuse. The results indicate that while there were some meaningful relationships between family income and family educational background, there was not any statistical evidence to believe on such relationship between family size and child abuse.

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Investigating the effects of counseling programs on runaway youth Pages 833-836 Download PDF

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Hossein Ebrhaimzadeh Asmin

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2014.1.035

Keywords: Counseling programs, Runaway, Youth

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This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of counseling programs on reducing the runaway youth in Iran. The study selects a sample of 30 students and divides them into two groups of control and experiment. The first group is kept under eight sessions of social skills training and a questionnaire consists of various questions including confidence items is distributed among both groups after the training ends. The implementation of Kolmogorov-Smirnov has revealed that both pre and post-test data are normally distributed. In addition, the result of ANOVA test has revealed that training program could significantly improve runaway youth’s confidence.

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Investigating different factors influencing job satisfaction: A case study of cement industry Pages 2619-2624 Download PDF

Authors: Mina Shirvani, Asghar Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza Iravani, Saeed Yousef Pour, Allahyar Arabmomeni, Shirin Mirhaj, Akram Fakhri Fakhramini

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2013.09.007

Keywords: Cement industry, Gender, Job satisfaction, Marital status

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Job satisfaction plays an important role on increasing business productivity and efficiency. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the relationship between job satisfaction and employees’ personal characteristics including gender, marital status, etc. The proposed study designs a questionnaire and distributes it among 244 out of 800 employees who worked for cement industry in Iran. The data are analyzed using different statistical tests such as t-student and analysis of variance. The results indicate that while there was not any meaningful relationship between gender and job satisfaction there was some meaningful relationship between marital status and job satisfaction.

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A social work study on the effect of gender and marital status on job satisfaction Pages 2285-2288 Download PDF

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseini, Mostafa Rajabi, Akram Fakhri Fakhramini, Shirin Mirhaj, Mina Shirvani

Keywords: Job satisfaction, Gender, Marital status

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Job satisfaction plays an essential role on having happy society since people may have better lives when they fully satisfied with their jobs. In this paper, we present an empirical study to investigate the effect of marital status as well as educational background on job satisfaction. The study performs the study among university employees of Khomeinishar branch located in province of Esfahan, Iran and all questions are designed in Likert scale of 1-5 based on Brayfield & Rothes Index of job satisfaction. Using a sample of 100 people, the study first uses Kolmogrov-Smirnov test and verifies that all data are normally distributed (?=5%). The survey also finds that there is no difference between female and male employees in terms of job satisfaction (?=5%). In addition, the study confirms that marital status has no significance on job satisfaction (?=5%).

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A social work study on public attitudes toward the role of arts and cultural institutions in the cultural development of the country Pages 2331-2334 Download PDF

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Mostafa Rajabi, Akram Fakhri Fakhramini, Mina Shirvani, Ome Leila Lashkari, Shirin Mirhaj

Keywords: Culture, Cultural development, Cultural organizations

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This paper presents an empirical investigation on the effect of public attitudes toward the role of arts and cultural institutions for the cultural development of the country. The study performs the study among urban and rural families in city of Esfahan, Iran and all questions are designed in Likert scale of 1-5. Using a sample of 700 people, the study finds that people generally have negative impression toward the role of arts and cultural institutions for the cultural development of the country. In their opinions, the nature and quality of the effects play the most important role, which must be improved. The study also finds the people’s style of living and place of residency are also important issues on the perception toward cultural development.

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A social work study on socio-economic and cultural factors influencing on community Pages 1993-1996 Download PDF

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Mostafa Rajabi, Allahyar Arabmomeni, Akram Fakhri Fakhramini, Mina Shirvani

Keywords: Arab tribes Jarghoyeh, Socio-economic, Welfare effect

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We present a study to investigate the impacts of four factors on contribution role on society among Arab tribes Jarghoyeh women who live in Iran. The study designs a questionnaire, distributes them among 400 women, and analyzes their feedbacks. There are four hypotheses, which study the effects of various factors on women’s contribution role on society. These factors include educational background, level of welfare, numbers of children and ties of kinship. The results show that while educational background, level of welfare and ties of kinship play important role on women’s contribution role on society, having more children do not statistically have any influence on juvenile delinquency.

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A social work study on family related issues influencing juvenile delinquency Pages 2085-2088 Download PDF

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Samaneh Salimi, Akram Fakhri Fakhramini, Ghasem Shahmoradi, Zakaria Eskandari, Mohsen Dadashi

Keywords: Economy and Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile delinquency, Religion and juvenile delinquency

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We present a study to investigate the impacts of various factors on juvenile delinquency. The study distributes 400 questionnaires among young people aged 19-26 who are involved with some sort of crime and analyzes their feedbacks. There are three hypotheses including family income, tendency to spirituality and religion and educational backgrounds of families and juvenile delinquency among these people. The results show that while family income and religious as well as spirituality characteristics play important role on juvenile delinquency, educational background of the parents do not statistically have any influence on juvenile delinquency. The study recommends that a better family condition could contribute society to reduce juvenile delinquency and people could guide their children through better consultations.

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A social work study on relationship between timidity, shyness and loneliness Pages 2167-2170 Download PDF

Authors: Aliasghar Rahimi Rezaee, Mohammad Reza Iravani, Zahra Mahmoudi Kataki, Zakaria Eskandari, Mohsen Dadashi

Keywords: Loneliness, Shyness, Timidity

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Loneliness is one of the primary issues, which harms social activities especially among young people who need to take part in work force, actively. This paper presents an empirical investigation on the effects of timidity and loneliness among female students who attend in one of Islamic Azad University, Shahreza unit. The proposed study selects 60 students out of 400 female students who were living university dormitory. The survey uses Pearson correlation ratio between timidity and loneliness and our survey indicates that the Pearson correlation ratio is equal to r=0.11 with P-value=0.33. Therefore, we can conclude that there is no meaningful relationship between timidity and loneliness when the level of significance is five percent.

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