the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of instruction through debate on male and female efl learners’ reading comprehension, to examine the differences between the performance of male and female participants on the five dimensions of cctst including analysis, evaluation, inference, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning, and to examine the differences between male ...

Introduction & Objective:Self-care is one of the most important factors in controlling diabetes. Sometimes self-care is not possible due to certain barriers which inhibit the patient’s role in controlling the disease. This study aims to identify the barriers against self-care in diabetic patients and to find their associations with diabetes control. Materials & Methods: The subjects of our stu...

Self-criticism has been introduced as the core pathology of many mental disorders and one of the maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Numerous studies have confirmed the significance of self-criticism as a meta-diagnostic construct. In the past, self-criticism was equated with shame and perfectionism, but self-criticism has a more limited definition than perfectionism. Self-criticism is a...

Introduction: Recognizing the needs and health status of the elderly is one of the important issues of the society, and in order to empower and improve their conditions, new treatment solutions, rehabilitation and effective interventions should be researched. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation and compassion-based therapy on self-care behaviors of the elde...

abstract the main purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills and that of learners who were trained without the above mentioned task. the participants of this study consist of 60 intermediate level students participating languag...

Objective: The present research aimed at determining the mediating role of self-compassion in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and craving in substance-dependent individuals under methadone maintenance treatment. Method: This research was descriptive-correlational of structural equation modeling type. Among the substance-dependent individuals under methadone treatment referrin...