Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects various aspects of a patient’s life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of positive thinking training on the quality of life and emotion regulation among patients with MS.  Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental study conducted on a sample of 40 patients selected by convenience sampling method. Eight 90-minute sessions of positive th...

Teaching learners to be critical has become more important in education currently. Prospective employers and institutions of higher learning expect learners to be able to transfer learning to various situations. This study sought to investigate the utilisation of critical thinking skills in distance education. It was a qualitative study that explored experiences of teachers who were registered ...

BACKGROUND Critical thinking is an essential ability for medical students. However, the relationship between parental rearing styles and medical students' critical thinking disposition has rarely been considered. The aim of this study was to investigate whether parental rearing styles were significant predictors of critical thinking disposition among Chinese medical students. METHODS 1,075 me...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND SIGNIFICANCE: Critical thinking (CT) skills and the inclination to engage in critical thinking are essential for nurse managers to function as transformational leaders capable of influencing staff to align with organizational goals. In an extensive literature review, numerous studies were found examining the concept of CT in students and no studies were fou...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate teachers’ declarative metacognitive knowledge of higher order thinking skills. This was a qualitative study conducted within the educational setting of in-service science teachers’ courses. The main finding is that teachers’ intuitive (i.e., pre-instructional) knowledge of metacognition of thinking skills is unsatisfactory for the purpose of t...