Background: Infertility is a stressful event for both couples; therefore investigation of coping styles can be helpful to show how to improve mental health in couple infertile. The aim of this study was to compare individual coping processes of men and women in infertile couples. Materials and Methods: Study participants were comprised of 142 men and women who were referred to Fatemeh Alzahra F...

In today’s interactive marketplace,microblog has become a powerful social marketing and advertising platform. An important type of information in microblog is consumer generated and forwarded advertising. In our study, we explore advertising effects of different social appeals through microblog. We find that oriented appeals (i.e., other-oriented and self-oriented appeals) are more effective th...

Because culture has a deep and far-reaching influence, individuals who grew up within different cultures tend to develop different basic self-constructions. With respect to the Chinese under the influence of Chinese culture, Yang proposed the concepts of individual-oriented self and social-oriented self. He argued that, besides the individual-oriented self, the social-oriented self of the Chine...

Youth purpose is defined as a life aim that both personally meaningful and contributes to the world beyond self. This study disaggregated other-oriented (OO) aims (i.e., intended contribute world) self-oriented (SO) without intention self) examine development of youth who evince various combinations high low OO SO aims. In sample 207 adolescent girls, hierarchical cluster analysis revealed thre...

Despite the abundance of research on teachers’ repair practices in language classroom interaction, there are not enough conversation analytic studies on repair organization with the focus on the details of interaction in the context of EFL. Drawing on sociocultural and situated learning theories, this study explores the contingent nature of English language teachers’ org...