The concept of organizational commitment has become a hot topic in the literature of industrial psychology and organizational behavior in the past decade. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships of employee characteristic (age, marital status, job tenure, educational level and job level), Perceived organizational support, psychological capital and job satisfaction to...

The purpose of this study is to describe potential precipitants re-hospitalization and dis-engagement during the first three years diagnosing a psychotic episode, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). A retrospective cohort that included 56 patients, with episode psychosis (FEP). 55.4% sample were men, 52% single, 80% ethnicity, 50% unemployed. mean age was 29.51 old. 42% had non-affective ...

conclusions these findings demonstrated that metacognition had an important role in predicting alexithymia in the substance abusers, which underscores the necessity of precautionary measures. patients and methods the research sample included addicts (males and females aged 10 to 70 years) who referred to the addiction treatment and counseling centers of three iranian cities of zahedan, sari, an...

employee commitment is the terminology used to describe whether employees have a strong belief and accepts organizational goals and values. the thesis of this study is founded on the conviction that an organization cannot be expected to perform effectively and efficiently when its employees are not committed. there are many measurable support that employee commitment is a critical factor that d...

the present study intended to propose a causal model of factors that would predict oral communication apprehension (oca) of iranian learners of english as a foreign language. to conduct the study, 135 male and female university students majoring in english were selected. five variables including: learners’self-esteem and introversion/extroversion(as independent variables), their gender and prof...

background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most important cardiovascular risk factors. objectives: this study was performed to assess the relationship of diabetes with gender, education, and marital status in an iranian urban population. methods: a total of 892 men and women aged 30-85 were recruited using a cluster-stratified sampling method from an urban population. using a questionna...

The neurogenesis hypothesis of depression is based on the correlation between the rate of adult hippocampal neurogenesis and the affective status of rodents. However, studies investigating the role of neurogenesis in the causation of mood regulation have reported inconsistent results. Here, we explored whether the affective state can be affected differentially by adult-born neurons with distinc...