• The birth of the first child can significantly alter a couples’ marital life. The role of parenthood and accepting parental responsibilities seem like difficult tasks for most couples.
• This study addressed the challenges of transition to parenthood in Iranian couples. Accordingly, differences in parenting practices, communication challenges between the couples, livelihood concerns, and feeling restricted and prevented from pursuing personal goals were identified as the challenges of transition to parenthood in couples.
• Educating and preparing couples to plan for pregnancy, pregnancy period, and parenthood are necessary for couples. Family counselors must help couples with this transition.
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Being a parent is among the most important tasks in the life of any couple. It is essential to inform and prepare couples before pregnancy and after childbearing. The collected results revealed that psychological challenges of transitions to parenthood included differences in parenting practices, communication challenges between the couples, livelihood concerns, and feeling restricted and prevented from pursuing personal goals. 

● Active memory is a cognitive function responsible for preserving instant information.
● The research focused improve the intelligence profile in children with SLD.
● The study data suggested that educational interventions were the most influential factor on active memory and overall scale.
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Active memory is the search engine of the mind. Active memory is a cognitive function responsible for preserving instant information, its manipulation, and its use in thinking. This study aimed to investige the effects of active memory practices on intelligence profiles in students with Specific Learning Disorder (SLD).

• A common process of the psychopathology between psychosis and anxiety is dysfunctional attitudes.
• Cognitive insight is the differentiating aspect of psychosis and anxiety.
• Higher self-certainty, but not self-reflectiveness, can be considered as a hallmark of delusion. 
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Dysfunctional attitudes and cognitive insight are key components in the cognitive formulation of anxiety and delusion. We compared these factors between 3 groups of patients with anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders with delusion, and healthy individuals. The collected results presented higher dysfunctional attitudes in anxious and delusional patients than in the healthy group. Also, the anxiety and delusion groups manifested the highest self-reflectiveness and self-certainty, respectively. This study revealed that patients with anxiety disorders and those with delusion have similar dysfunctional attitudes about success-perfectionism, need for approval, and need for satisfying others. Although delusional patients are more confident in their beliefs and judgments, both clinical groups accept the corrective feedback. This research highlighted a continuum between anxiety and delusion, i.e., considerable in theory and treatment.

• There was an adverse relationship between procrastination and life satisfaction, and wellbeing in the studied elderly.
• Life satisfaction and wellbeing were positively correlated with emotion regulation skills in the explored elderly.
• Emotion regulation skills, as a positive personal reassures, can significantly decrease procrastination and increase psychological wellbeing and life satisfaction in the elderly. 
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Successful and healthy aging is the major outcome and policy of decisions in the elderly. Successful aging includes many elements, like psychological aspects, such as mindfulness, family relationships, and social connecting. Some researchers see well-being as a potential complement to life and happiness; while others consider it as the individual’s experience of accomplished goals and accepting emotional experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant. They believe it provides important information for personal growth and prosperity and even wellbeing and comfort in one’s life. Moreover, having diverse emotion regulation skills predicts more life satisfaction and fewer psychological disorders in people with these skills. The elderly with a higher feeling of wellbeing experience greater positive emotions. Besides, they have a positive evaluation of the past and events or any other happening around them. As a result, the person experiences more life satisfaction. Considering issues, like procrastination, as well as the importance of aging and psychological wellbeing provides a better life for the elderly. This study suggested the role of emotion regulation in life satisfaction and increasing the psychological wellbeing of the elderly. Therefore, using the results of this study, solutions can be provided to engage the elderly in useful activities and reduce procrastination among them; accordingly, we could increase their life satisfaction and overall quality of life by practical training and holding related workshops.

• Marital conflict is among the most stressful situations individuals encounter.
• Emotion regulation plays a critical role in interpersonal outcomes, such as couples’ relationship quality and conflict management.
• EFCT and ACTT are effective in improving marital conflict and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Besides, EFCT is clinically more effective than ACT in this respect.
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The issue of conflicts in married life is natural and profoundly prevalent in couples. Almost all couples who marry state a high level of marital satisfaction at the beginning. Marital conflict is a critical risk factor for biopsychological problems. Fortunately, recent research determined that emotion regulation plays a central role in couples’ relationship quality. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effects of two common treatment methods on emotion regulation strategies and marital conflict, namely Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The collected results suggested that both treatment approaches were effective in improving marital conflict and emotion regulation strategies in couples; however, EFCT was clinically more effective than ACT in this area.

● Procrastination can be decreased by minimizing anxiety, correcting maladaptive cognitive emotion regulations and reinforcing adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies.
● Anxiety can exacerbate academic procrastination by producing maladaptive procedures.
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The study aimed to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, and procrastination in high school students. The study sample consisted of 350 high school female students in Rasht City, Iran. The subjects responded to the various questionnaires. Results demonstrated that There was a direct and significant relationship between academic procrastination, anxiety, and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies. There was an inverse and significant relationship between procrastination, adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and mindfulness. Mediation analysis data revealed that the maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies exacerbated the effects of anxiety on academic procrastination; the indirect effect of anxiety on procrastination through adaptive strategies was significant. Procrastination in students could be reduced by minimizing anxiety, correcting maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and strengthening adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Anxiety may aggravate academic procrastination by generating maladaptive mechanisms.

• Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) significantly reduced attentional bias towards corona-related stimuli in the study subjects. 
• Reduced attentional bias led to decreased coronavirus anxiety. 
• Online implementation of ABM was effective in improving coronavirus anxiety.
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People with anxiety tend to pay more attention to information related to the threat. For example, when encountering happy and angry faces, people with social anxiety pay more attention to angry faces. Similarly, people with coronavirus anxiety pay more attention to coronavirus-related information. This condition is called attentional bias and plays an important role in many psychological disorders. Attentional bias can be modified by various methods, known as Attentional Bias Modification (ABM). Researchers found that when an attentional bias associated with an anxiety type is reduced using ABM, the associated anxiety declines consequently. Therefore, this study aimed to examine whether ABM can reduce attentional bias to coronavirus-related information and decrease coronavirus anxiety. A web-based version of this intervention was delivered to 18 adults with moderate to severe coronavirus anxiety. Accordingly, their attentional bias and coronavirus anxiety were compared with 19 other adults who received no intervention. The study results suggested the efficacy of ABM in reducing coronavirus-related attentional bias and coronavirus anxiety. Coronavirus anxiety is increasing in the general population; thus, online ABM, as a brief intervention not requiring people to leave homes, can be a potential treatment for coronavirus anxiety.

• Reward and punishment sensitivity can lead to Positive and Negative emotions.
• The intensity of emotions can lead to Positive and Negative emotions.
• Positive and Negative emotions can lead to emotional dysregulation.
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This study was performed on 195 students of a university in Tehran. In general, the results showed that the intensity of negative and positive emotions as well as sensitivity to punishment and reward can lead to negative and positive emotions. Negative and positive emotions can also lead to emotional dysfunction, which in this study includes generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and depression.