The present study pursued two goals: First, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher Status Scale (TSS); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of Persian, Arabic, and English in Iranian junior high school students’ perceptions in order to determine the relative roles of national, religious, and western influences in the identity construction of the students. The data was coll...

We derive an identity for nonparametric maximum likelihood estimators (NPMLE) and regularized MLEs in censored data models which expresses the standardized maximum likelihood estimators in terms of the standardized empirical process. This identity provides an effective starting point in proving both consistency and efficiency of NPMLE and regularized MLE. The identity and corresponding method f...

The research paper evaluates Iraqi art and craft by drawing lessons since the revolution period noting nation’s identity in that continues to evolve passed on contemporary artists. revival of “return roots" has been a discernible trend Iraq from early 1950s, which marked formative art. Various artists their artworks have scrutinized grasp motivation, predominant themes, artistic styles define f...

This study aimed to examine the effect of shared social identity (i.e., whether source information about a stressor comes from an ingroup vs. outgroup member) and message content people were informed that task is stressful challenging) on cardiovascular reactivity stress (CVR) across two higher education institutions differing in status (University Institute Technology [IoT]). The employed quas...

Substantial work in social psychology has focused on reducing intergroup conflict and promoting positive intergroup attitudes. These interventions to reduce intergroup bias frequently emphasize the importance of inclusiveness and overarching commonalities among groups. However, a strict focus on harmony may sometimes have the unintended consequence of decreasing motivation for social change and...

OBJECTIVE This study examined gender differences in explicit and implicit attitudes toward overweight and explicit and implicit weight identity. METHOD Normal weight women (n=22) and men (n=20) and overweight women (n=20) and men (n=21) completed the Implicit Association Test and portions of the Eating Disorders Questionnaire. RESULTS Although explicit and implicit anti-fat attitudes were u...