this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

Abstract Introduction: According to the psychological theories, the priority of adolescence is the acquisition of identity, which is influenced by physical, psychological, socio-cultural and spiritual factors of this period. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of agentic personality, social capital, moral intelligence and psychological capital in identity prediction. m...

the present study aimed at exploring cognitions of iranian english teachers within the context of english for academic purposes (eap). to this end, the cognitions of two groups of eap teachers with respect to their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) were probed. two language teachers and two content instructors who had at least five years of eap te...

Abstract Introduction: According to the psychological theories, the priority of adolescence is the acquisition of identity, which is influenced by physical, psychological, socio-cultural and spiritual factors of this period. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of agentic personality, social capital, moral intelligence and psychological capital in identity prediction. m...

  B ackground and Objectives: Meny studies have shown that addicts and non-addicts are different in personality traits, identity styles, resiliency and spirituality, but the role of each component in predicting addictive behavior and discriminating between addict and non-addict groups is not clear. So, the purpose of the current research was to identify the role of predictive factors according ...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of identity styles and personality factors in Predicting marital conflicts in couples. The population was 120 individual (60 male, 60 female) With purposive sampling. Instruments of this study were Berzonsky identity questionnaire, NEO short form and marital conflicts barati and sanaii. stepwise regression was used to analyze the da...

Introduction: Self-differentiation is the most important concept of the theory of family systems and shows the level of ability of a person to distinguish his intellectual and emotional processes from others. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of gender-related personality traits in the relationship between identity styles, attachment with self-differentiatio...