this paper intends to evaluate cultural capital & social identity of different dimensions of cultural capital through self-description of people. then it may study any correlation of cultural capital with different indexes of social identity. cultural capital in accordance with the viewpoint of borodino has three dimensions including: conceptual dimension, real dimension and finalized dimen...

ôbjective: self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. regarding to similar findings it is supposed that concept of self efficacy has a general role on mental health. the present study focused on examining the relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression, anxiety, worry and social avoidance in a large sample of normal students (n=549...

background chronic heart failure (chf) is associated with unpredictably increased prevalence of hospital admissions. self-care is one of the most important aspects of management for patients with chf. self-care adequacy has led to increased satisfaction, independence in daily activities, reduced stress, and morbidity. objectives we aimed to assess the relationship between self-care behavior and...

Background: Chronic diseases in children lead to failure in the development of self-esteem and productivity. Self-efficacy decreases as one’s behaviors become more complex and difficult to deal with. Storytelling is an observational learning method, which is effective in improving self-efficacy. Aim: to determine the effects of storytelling on self-efficacy in children with thalassemia (aged 7-...

background and purpose: regarding the role of body image and self-esteem in mental health in women, research examined the mediating role of self-esteem and body image in relation to the self-compassion and mental health in female students research method: the population is composed of girl students of payam noor of delfan city. for this purpose, 280 students were selected by random cluster samp...

the present study adopts the perspective that metacognitive strategy instruction is bound to occur inside the classroom especially on oral tasks. accordingly, the researchers investigated whether metacognitive strategy instruction prior to oral tasks was more successful than conventional ways in improving efl learners’ oral proficiency. to this end, 56 participants studying in a language school...

self-incompatibility is one of the main problems in almond production. in this research work, at the first step, some local cultivars as well as some imported ones were evaluated from the point of their male and female organ compatibility. then, ten selected commercial self-incompatible cultivars(female parents) were crossed with two self-compatible cultivars(male parents) i. e. tuono and super...

background: quality in health care can be seen as having three principal dimensions: service, technical and customer quality. this study aimed to measure customer quality in relation to self-management of type 2 diabetes. methods: a cross-sectional survey of 577 type 2 diabetes people was carried out in australia. the 13-item patient activation measure was used to evaluate customer quality base...