Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a transdiagnostic construct associated with variety of emotional disorders. To date, disorder-specific self-report measures have been found to capture specific types RNT. The Persistent and Intrusive Negative Thoughts Scale (PINTS) 5-item measure developed overcome current limitations. study aims translate validate the PINTS for Portuguese population. An on...

abstract introduction: critical thinking skills as thinking and judging self-regulation are purposeful and result in solving problems and making appropriate decisions. therefore, the importance of this subject and its role in the nursing profession and the clinical decision, this study was done to compare critical thinking skills of nursing students in continuous licentiate and bachelor- licent...

abstractthe present study aimed to explore the impact of teaching critical thinking skills through applying debate on the use of communicative strategies. at first 60 intermediate students were selected and placed in two homogenous groups of control and experimental through passing nelson test. then, a critical thinking appraisal was run to the two groups both before and after the treatment. th...

Adolescents’ lives undergo considerable reorganization during school transitions, which require establishing new peer relationships and participating in more demanding academic activities. Yet, little is known about how school-transition stressors affect adolescents’ feelings of social anxiety (SA) depression, especially among Hispanic youth who are at elevated risk for dropout. We examined as ...

critical thinking is one of the major aims of education, and its prerequisite is to have thoughtful teachers with critical thinking viewpoints. there have been numerous models for critical thinking including two major psychological and socio-political ones. the present article has considered a comparative study of critical thinking from the viewpoints of robert ennis and henry giroux considerin...

introduction: critical thinking as a process of purposeful self-regulatory judgment leads to problem solving and correct decision making in individuals. in the modern world, health care faces rapid change and burgeoning amount of knowledge. possessing critical thinking is essential for individuals in health care centers, specially when they are forced to solve clinical problems. the aim of this...

The rapid change in technology has revolutionized health, as all sectors.The possibility of artificial intelligence technologies to show higher performance than human thought can be seen a threat the nursing profession professions.Nurses will able transfer their routine and repetitive work robot technology.Can this situation replace nurses, nurses? Does end?When nurses adapt technology, they be...

A reciprocal relationship between repetitive negative thinking (RNT) and affect (NA) has been found in various types of psychopathology. Recent studies have suggested that the magnitude this association can vary across time individuals, which may inform future Here, we explored how these dynamics interplays are manifested student general populations using a statistical clustering algorithm. Acr...

The effects of threatening stimuli, including language, on trait anxiety have been widely studied. However, whether levels a direct effect language processing has not so consistently explored. present study focuses event-related potential (ERP) patterns resulting from electroencephalographic (EEG) measurement participants' (n = 36) brain activity while they perform dichotic listening task. Part...