the aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of group training of life skills on adolescents’.self-regulatory behavior. the study used pretest-posttest control group design. the population was composed of male first grade junior  high school students in the city of boroujen selected by random sampling. the sample group were 24 students, who were randomly put in two experimental...

Human behavior representation (HBR) models simulate human behaviors and responses. The Joint Crowd Federate cognitive model developed by the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) and licensed by WernerAnderson, Inc., models the cognitive behavior of crowds to provide credible crowd behavior in support of military training, exercise support, and wargaming experiments and can...

Information systems (IS) security breaches cause significant losses to organizations worldwide. Many approaches have been introduced in order to improve employees’ security behavior. Earlier research shows that only seven out of 59 approaches are based on sound theoretical background, and the research in the area of IS security awareness and security behavior has neglected the use of relevant t...

The present randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of the parent training program Parents and Children Talking Together (PCTT) for parents with children in the preadolescent period who experience parenting difficulties. The program is focused on reducing child problem behavior by improving parents' communication and problem solving skills, and disciplining behavior. Largest effe...

The present meta-analytic review examined effectiveness of the Incredible Years parent training (IYPT) regarding disruptive and prosocial child behavior, and aimed to explain variability in intervention outcomes. Fifty studies, in which an intervention group receiving the IYPT was compared to a comparison group immediately after intervention, were included in the analyses. Results showed that t...

Background Pain medicine is a developing specialty, aimed at relieving pain and suffering, enhancing function, and improving the quality of life of patients. Pain is often ignored, under-reported and mismanaged by health-care providers. Aspiring pain physicians in India face many challenges and barriers in advancing their specialty. Objectives The objective of this study is to determine the c...

Purpose: Considering the importance of human resource planning for organizational citizenship behavior, the purpose of this study was identify, explain and prioritize human resource planning factors in order to occurrence organizational citizenship behavior by employees. Methodology: The present research was descriptive from type of qualitative-quantitative. The research population in the qual...

background education, universal precautions, using protective glasses and a standard method of used needle disposal, are the most important strategies for preventing bloodborne infections. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the effect of a face-to-face education program with the effect of an official-imperative circular, on the needle-disposal behavior of nurses working in the shah...

This monograph is divided into three sections. The first section comprises five chapters that review and discuss current treatment approaches, the second section comprises two chapters concerned with severe problems, and the third section comprises two chapters that address training concerns. The authors of these chapters used various approaches, but all are based on a philosophy of behavior an...

BACKGROUND Schoolteachers are known to be faced with various stresses in their work. A simple, less onerous, and effective intervention technique that can enhance the stress management skills, particularly, cognitive flexibility, of schoolteachers is needed. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine whether stress management training using a Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program ...