Background: Psychological pressures following divorce disturb women’s psychosocial adaptation. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) on psychosocial adjustment and cognitive emotion regulation in divorced women. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted using a quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. ...

Internet therapy is a novel treatment approach that is used to deliver cognitive behaviour therapy. Treatment components are mainly delivered in the form of texts presented via webpages, and support is provided via e-mail. A growing number of controlled trials suggest that Internet therapy works well when (a) a proper diagnosis is made before the treatment starts, (b) a comprehensive treatment ...

Many ICT investments are complex processes and have also strategic implications for organizations. In this paper we discuss how the managers use knowledge when making ICT investment decisions. The focus of the study is on how the organizational process of knowledge creation affects the individual-level decision making and how knowledge conversions between tacit and explicit knowledge occur in t...

background: multiple sclerosis is a common disorder between neural and immune systems whose main psychological consequence is dropping the quality of life. the lack of a basic targeted theoretical model is the most common flaw of few pre trails. it has been shown; the components of leventhals’ model (illness representations) are associated with chronic illness outcomes. the aim of this study wa...

This study, based on the cognitive model of stress (Lazarus, 1999), examined 294 Jewish and 234 Arab students’ stress appraisals, coping strategies, and emotional and behavioral reactions to academic stressors. Perceived stress was positively related to emotion/support and avoidance coping, which, in turn, were related to high negative affect and risk taking. The findings suggest interventions ...

background: lifestyle-modification programs including physical activity are essential for both treatment and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus ( t2dm ). however, factors associated with physical activity among patients are poorly understood. this study applied social-cognitive theory (sct) for predicting determinants of physical activity among women with t2dm in iran, 2013. methods: in thi...

OBJECTIVE Although cognitive behavior therapy is a widely accepted treatment for depression, the problematic nature of efficacy studies is insufficiently recognized. METHOD The authors reviewed original studies and quantitative analyses on the use of cognitive behavior therapy for depression. RESULTS The authors suggested that claims for cognitive behavior therapy's efficacy on depression h...

Modeling crowd behavior is an important challenge for cognitive modelers. Unfortunately, existing computational models are typically not tied to cognitive science theories, and are rarely evaluated against human crowd data. We investigate a general cognitive model of crowd behavior, based on Festinger’s Social Comparison Theory (SCT). We evaluate the SCT model on general pedestrian movement, an...