Family has a crucial role in maintaining the physical, social and mental health of the children. Most of the mental and anxiety problems of children reflect the complex interpersonal situations among family members, especially parents. In other words, anxiety problems of the children are correlated with deficit relationships of family members and improper childrearing styles. The parental child...

Epstein (1994; 2003) proposed that there are two cognitive information processing systems that operate in parallel: the intuitive thinking style and the rational thinking style. Decisional fit occurs when the preferred thinking style is applied to making a decision and research has shown that this fit increases the value of the outcome of a decision. Additionally, decisional fit leads to less r...

Embedding reflective thinking on approaches to learning moving from pilot study to developing institutional good practice. Conference Item How to cite: Edwards, Chris (2011). Embedding reflective thinking on approaches to learning moving from pilot study to developing institutional good practice. In: The 16th Annual Conference of Education, Learning, Styles, Individual differences Network, 29 J...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a relationship existed between student learning styles and their preferences toward the various activities associated with the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach in the first-year pharmacy curriculum at the University of British Columbia. These PBL activities comprise group discussions, independent research, in-class critical-thinking and ...

The present study was conducted to assess the types of coping styles among the spouses of patients with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder and schizoaffective disorder. One hundred and sixteen (116 out of which 58 male and 58 female) spouses of diagnosed patients as per the DSM IV TR criteria with psychotic disorders were selected through purposive sampling. The C...

this research examines the casual relationship between parenting styles with identity processing styles and identity commitment in adolescent girls. 391 female students in third grade of high school completed two measures: perceived parenting style scale ( bury, 1991) and identity style inventory( berzonsky, 1997). two structural equation modeling for fathers and mothers  had good fit with data...