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Introduction: It is necessary to help students with writing disorders to recognize the factors that affect the creation of problems and improve them using different methods. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of "Executive Function Training" on emotional self-regulation and test anxiety of female students with writing disorders
Methods: The research method is quasi-experimental and pre-test, post-test with control group. The statistical population included all female students with writing disorders who referred to the Rehabilitation Training Center for Special Learning Disabilities in Islamabad West Education Department in 2019, who according to the psychological counseling file, had writing disorders. There were about 129 of them. Samples were selected from 30 people by convenience sampling method and were randomly replaced by random assignment method using lottery in 2 intervention and control groups. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, “Written Expression Test”, “Emotional Self-Regulation Questionnaire” and “Test Anxiety Inventory”. Content validity was measured by qualitative method and reliability by internal consistency method by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The intervention group received "Executive Function Training" for 10 weeks. In the pre-test and post-test stages, questionnaires were completed for both intervention and control groups. During this period, the control group did not receive any intervention and after the intervention, the relevant training course was held for them in the same center. Data were analyzed in SPSS. 24. 
Results: Significant differences were shown between the intervention and control groups in the post-test stage (P<0.01). The level of emotional self-regulation in the intervention group increased significantly compared to the control group in the post-test stage (P<0.01). In addition, the test anxiety of the intervention group was significantly reduced compared to the control group in the post-test stage (P<0.01). 
Conclusions: "Executive Function Training" has a positive and significant effect on the level of emotional self-regulation and test anxiety of female students with writing disorders. It is suggested that teachers use the above method to increase the level of emotional self-regulation and reduce the test anxiety of female students with writing disorders. 
 

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Introduction: Personality traits and loneliness are among the factors affecting marital satisfaction. The present study aimed to determine the structural relationships between personality traits and marital satisfaction with the mediation of loneliness in women and men referring to counseling centers in Ilam City. 
Methods: The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of this study included all women and men who referred to family counseling centers in Ilam City in 2019 with complaints of marital problems, 320 of whom were selected by non-random and convenience sampling method form among them. To collect data "The demographic Questionnaire, "NEO Five-Factor Inventory", "ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale" and "The University of California Loneliness Scale" was used. The validity of the instruments was measured using content validity by a qualitative method and reliability using the internal consistency method by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS .24 and Amos. 24.
Results: There is a negative and significant correlation between neuroticism (P=0.001, β=0.116) and loneliness (P=0.001, β=0.258) with marital satisfaction and there is a positive and significant correlation between agreeableness (P=0.001, β=0.327) and conscientiousness (P=0.008, β=0.185) with marital satisfaction. There is a negative and significant correlation between neuroticism and marital satisfaction with the mediation of loneliness (P=0.016, β=-0.079) and there is a positive and significant correlation between agreeableness (P=0.017, β=0.074) and conscientiousness (P=0.038, β=0.059) with marital satisfaction with the mediation of loneliness.
Conclusions: There are structural direct and indirect relationships between the personality traits of neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness with marital satisfaction with the mediation of loneliness. Therefore, it is suggested that couples and family therapists, in counseling and couple therapy, to increase marital satisfaction, should also pay attention to people's personality manifestations and feelings of loneliness caused by it.