Introduction: Today, successful organizations are the ones that constantly operationalize new ideas. The present study aimed to investigate the effective personal characteristics in creating and developing creativity among the students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. To do this, three mediating factors of positive mood, self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation were used to help evaluate...

Introduction: Knowledge of medical students is usually assessed by exams, but it is not related to their sense of readiness. Self-assessment is one of the methods for measuring medical professional readiness that has been less considered in medical education. This study aimed to determine the degree of acquisition of professional skills of medical interns in the management of inpatients through...

Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to study the relationship between self-estimated and measured physical fitness among non-athletic young females and males. Material and Methods: The target population of this study was all non-athletic male of female students from the University of Guilan. After translating the SPQ standard-questionnaire (Delignieres, 1994) and adjusting ...

Background & Aims: Lower self-efficacy of female nurses compared to male nurses has been reported in numerous studies. One of the consequences of low self-efficacy is reduced quality of care, especially in challenging situations. Mindfulness exercises can ameliorate self-efficacy by reducing stress. This study determined the effect of mindfulness exercises on the self-efficacy of female nurses....

The goal of the present research was to compare cognitive-emotional aspects of personality based on Cloninger’s model with those of antidepressant users including SSRI and TCA drugs. To do so, Cloninger’s TCI-56 questionnaire was given to 229 subjects (drug-dependent, depressed and normal subjects groups, 72, 86 and 71, respectively), who were selected with accessible method. Following the matc...