this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

some researches made in the field of agency problem issue, deal with the role of control systems regarding owners and managers. in this research the relationship between the two control mechanisms, namely the voluntary disclosure (external control mechanism) and outside directors (internal control mechanism), which are reductive of agency problems, has been studied. for this reason, a sample ...

Abstract Introduction: Studentschr('39') relationship with school is one of the most important aspects of education, several variables can be involved in this relationship and affect it. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting school-based relationships based on academic optimism and emotional schemas. Method: The present study was descriptive and correlationa...

Introduction: Clinical disorders are disorders that present as residual symptoms of acute illness. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of “Ellis's Rational Emotive Therapy” and “Seligman Optimism Training” on general health and hopelessness in divorce women with depression. Methods: The research design was quasi-experimental with pre-posttest in two experimental and contr...

In the past three decades, organizational commitment has been of interest to researchers as one of the organizational attitudes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of emotional intelligence and personality traits with organizational commitment among Iranian nurses. A total of 280 nurses were selected by multistage random sampling. Study tools included emotional intelligen...

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

the primary goal of the current project was to examine the effect of three different treatments, namely, models with explicit instruction, models with implicit instruction, and models alone on differences between the three groups of subjects in the use of the elements of argument structures in terms of toulmins (2003) model (i.e., claim, data, counterargument claim, counterargument data, rebutt...