today, identity as the most important aspect of human nature has seen its meaning transformed under the influence of postmodernist relativism, and hence, has affected women status and their identity. television, also, shapes our thought on fundamental social issues at various degrees. employing postmodernist signs, the pres

4 modes of reacting to the late adolescent identity crisis were described, measured, and validated. Criteria for inclusion in 1 of 4 identity statuses were the presence of crisis and commitment in the areas of occupation and ideology. Statuses were determined for 86 college male Ss by means of individual interviews. Performance on a stressful concept-attainment task, patterns of goal setting, a...

The present study investigated any probable relationship between theidentity processing styles and L2 literacy of advanced Persian EFL learners. Theparticipants included 160 (female = 109, male = 51) advanced EFL Iranian learners.The instruments used included a simulation of the TOEFL iBT test, measuring theparticipants’ L2 literacy-related proficiency, reading, and writing, and the identitysty...

The Green Revolution (GR) of the 1960s saw spectacular increases in cereal crop yields, enabled by widespread adoption high-yielding semi-dwarf varieties and increased fertilizer use. Semi-dwarfism is caused mutant wheat Reduced height-1 (Rht-1) rice semi-dwarf1 (sd1) alleles, respectively, which confer harvest index (grain to straw ratio) reduced yield loss from “lodging” (flattening crops win...

The hypothesis that it is the variability of a person's identity--as opposed to the particular combinations of identities--that produces stress during the acculturation process was examined. Two hundred ninety-five native Anglophone students at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, provided demographic data and completed the following measures: the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck & Beck, 1...

The Status of National-Religious Identity in High School Farsi Textbooks Y. Ma'roofi, Ph.D. S. Panaahi Tavaanaa To discover the extent to which the subject of national-religious identity is covered in high school Farsi textbooks in literature, all such textbooks (a total of 8) were content analyzed utilizing a check list of relevant indices. The validity of the instrument was asse...