Background: Due to the central role of ethics in the overall success of professors and teachers in developing curricula and their direct relationship with students, the present study aims to investigate the factors influencing occupational ethics in faculty members at Farhangian University. Materials and Methods: This study uses a mixed method with a sequential explanatory design. The statisti...

Gender matters in the classroom, but not in the way people may assume; girls are outperforming boys. Identity-Based Motivation (IBM) theory explains why: People prefer to act in ways that feel in-line with important social identities such as gender. If a behavior feels identity-congruent, difficulty is interpreted as meaning that the behavior is important, not impossible, but what feels identit...

BACKGROUND Heavy drinking in early adulthood among Blacks, but not Whites, has been found to be associated with more deleterious health outcomes, lower labor market success and lower educational attainment at mid-life. This study analysed psychosocial pathways underlying racial differences in the impact of early heavy alcohol use on occupational and educational attainment at mid-life. METHODS...

Cultural sensitivity is a crucial component of health care provision, particularly in psychiatric settings. As society becomes more multicultural, it is essential for occupational therapists to continue to develop cultural competence, which is defined in this paper as an awareness of, sensitivity to, and knowledge of the meaning of culture. At San Francisco General Hospital, an innovative multi...

In this study, we investigated the role of student characteristics and behaviors in a longitudinal study over a 50-year timespan (using a large U.S. representative sample of high school students). We addressed the question of whether behaviors in school have any long-lasting effects for one's later life. Specifically, we investigated the role of being a responsible student, interest in school, ...

Schizophrenia is a disorder which lasts for a person's lifetime. Treating it is a formidable challenge for clinician's considering the chronic nature of its course, rate of relapse, side effects of medicines and limited choice of medications. Since 1950s, with the advent of Chlorpromazine efforts have been made to alleviate the symptoms of schizophrenia and make them useful in terms of social a...

Decreased success at work and educational attainment by adulthood are of concern for children with ADHD given their widely documented academic difficulties; however there are few studies that have examined this empirically and even fewer that have studied predictors and individual variability of these outcomes. The current study compares young adults with and without a childhood diagnosis of AD...

Occupational stress is a serious problem that affects a large number of workers. Regardless financial or social status, age and profession, a person exposed to stress may develop health problems that can interfere with work and his quality of life. Thus, due to absenteeism and reduced productivity, companies lose money when its employees are stressed. In this scenario, it is important that empl...

Drawing on human capital theory, our study examines the relationship between international work experience and individuals' career success in terms of promotions subjective financial success. We propose that these relationships are mediated by external employability hypothesise a moderating role national-level economic freedom. Using data from 19,421 respondents, residing 30 countries working d...

This paper reviews some illustrative examples of studies of human neurobehavioral effects from experimental as well as long-term occupational organic-solvent exposure. My objective is to present a selection of neurobehavioral solvent studies with the educational aim that we may hopefully learn from the early experiences of others. Some of the methodological problems encountered in these studies...