<p style="text-align: justify;">This study investigated student teachers’ teaching self-efficacy level and factors that predict it (using five-factor mentoring model). Two hundred ten third fourth-year teachers (N=100/N=110; 93.8% females) were involved in the asked to complete a self-report questionnaire. The “Mentoring for Effective Primary Teaching” instrument “Teachers' Sense of Effic...

Scholars and investors have been interested in factor models for a long time. This paper builds using the monthly data of A-share market. We construct seven-factor model by adding Hurst exponent momentum to Fama–French five-factor find that there is 7% improvement average R–squared. Then, we compare five machine learning algorithms with ordinary least squares (OLS) one representative stock all ...

The paper attempts to find the evidence of a multi factor model for explaining stock price returns in the Indian stock market. It makes use of the technique of statistical factor analysis. The results of the factor analysis show that a five factor model is appropriate for explaining the returns generation process in India. The explanatory power of this five factor model is significantly better ...

Background and objectives: The development and distribution of hospital beds, regardless of effective factors, may downgrade equity in access to health services through imposing costs of inefficiency. This study aimed to develop a hospital bed distribution model in Iran in order to facilitate the optimal and cost-effective development and distribution of hospital beds. Methods: This descriptiv...

Five-Factor Theory (FFT) is a conceptualization of the personality system that identifies traits as abstract Basic Tendencies rooted in biology. In this chapter, FFT is examined in relation to recent findings in cross-cultural psychology reported in this volume. FFT correctly predicts the universality of personality structure, maturation, and gender differentiation. FFT suggests that difference...

objectives: multiple sclerosis is an incurable and chronic disease of the central nervous system. the main purpose of this survey is to compare the character types and life expectancy of patients suffering from m. s as compared with normal people. this survey was conducted using the persian translation of neo-ffi (neo-five factor inventory) and herth life expectancy. methods:thirty nine people ...

objective: despite the fact that new criteria for borderline personality disorder (bpd) were resulted from five-factor model (ffm), there are a small number of studies that investigate the relation between proposed personality traits and ffm. also, cross-cultural study in this field is needed continuously. though, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the relation between the ffm and dsm...