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In today's educational world, the importance of academic life skills and self-regulated motivation for students, especially in the senior high school, has been noted repeatedly. Thus, the purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching life skills and self-regulation of motivation on the academic motivation of female students of the senior high schools. This research is a quantitative applied study adopting a quasi-experimental design, with a pre-test/post-test and a control group. The statistical population included 31180 female students of the senior of high schools in Tabriz in the academic year of 2021-2022. From this population, 90 students were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method and were randomly divided into three groups with 30 participants. The control group received its traditional instruction while the first and second experimental groups received educational life skills and self-regulated motivation interventions respectively for eight sessions of two hours. The instruments included the academic motivation questionnaire (Vallerand et al., 1992). For data analysis, in addition to descriptive statistics, Shapiro-Wilk test, MANOVA, regression slope homogeneity test, Box's M Test, Leven test, MANCOVA, and Bonferroni post hoc test were used. The findings showed that the educational life skills and self-regulation of motivation training programs had a positive effect on the academic motivation of female students of the senior high schools. Also, motivational self-regulation training has a higher effectiveness in the academic motivation of the participants than teaching life skills. According to the results, it is concluded that the integration of educational self-regulation motivation and academic life skills training programs in the school environment can have positive effects on students. Schools and educational centers should look for ways to incorporate these skills into their curricula, so that students can develop the skills to manage their motivation and behaviors in a supportive and interactive environment. Also, it is important that teachers and trainers receive the necessary training to be able to effectively impart these skills to students.

 Objective: Parents often exhibit diverse reactions to the birth of their child, particularly when the child is born with a specific issue or disability, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The current study was designed to evaluate the effects of group-based Stress Immunization Training and its subsequent impact on the Quality of Life of mothers with children diagnosed with ASD.Methods: This quasi-experimental study utilized a pre-test-post-test control group design. The participants were mothers of children with ASD who had sought services at a temporary care center for children with Autism Spectrum in Rasht in the year 2021. Initially, forty mothers were selected through purposive sampling and were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Both groups completed the WHOQOL-BREF Quality of Life questionnaire. The experimental group then underwent 6 sessions of Stress Immunization Training (two hours per week), while the control group received nothing. Upon completion of the sessions, the Quality of Life questionnaire was administered again to both groups. The collected data were analyzed using covariance statistical analysis with a significance level set at 0.05.Results: The findings indicated that group-based Stress Immunization Training significantly improved the Quality of Life in mothers of children with ASD.Conclusion: Therefore, this treatment can be used by counselors and psychologists to increase the quality of life of the mothers of children with ASD.

 Objective: This research demonstrates that the practice of mindfulness training led to a notable decrease in occupational stress and an improvement in the overall quality of life for professionals working in operating rooms.Methods: The method of the present research was practical in nature and quasi-experimental in the form of pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all operating room experts in Tehran hospitals. 50 people from this community were selected by convenience sampling method and were randomly divided into two experimental (25 people) and control (25 people) groups. Data was collected using standard questionnaires. T tests and ANCOVA were used to analyze data. Results: The results showed that there is no significant difference in both occupational stress and quality of life in the pretest (both P>0.05). However, it was observed that experimental group had significantly lower occupational stress and higher quality of life compared to control group in the posttest (both P=0.001). Finally, the results of ANCOVA showed significant differences between experimental and control groups in both occupational stress and quality of life (both P=0.001).Conclusion: These findings indicate that mindfulness can play a crucial role in managing work-related stress among operating room experts. Consequently, by actively participating in mindfulness activities, it is plausible to create more favorable circumstances for professionals working in operating rooms in terms of their quality of life.