it is well documented that language learning success or failure is influenced by the affective side of the learner. self-efficacy and anxiety are among the affective factors influencing language learning. this study first explores the relationship between efl learners' self-efficacy in reading comprehension and their reading anxiety. secondly, it explores the relationship between efl learners' ...

conclusions implementing the self-management program plus regular follow-up increased the perception of self-efficacy in patients with ms. similar self-management programs are recommended to be integrated in the regular caring of patients with ms. results no significant difference in mean scores of baseline self-efficacy was found between the control (52.90 ± 8.03) and the intervention groups (...

the present study was conducted to examine the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of iranian efl teachers and also the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of intermediate adult learners individually. to this end, 40 efl teachers and 55 intermediate adult learners were selected from two branches of kish language institute. in this study, “...

the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

ôbjective: self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. regarding to similar findings it is supposed that concept of self efficacy has a general role on mental health. the present study focused on examining the relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression, anxiety, worry and social avoidance in a large sample of normal students (n=549...

background: diabetes is one of the chronic and prevalent diseases in the world. the number of diabetic patients has increased 7 times during the last 20 years. if the current trend continues, there will be 350 million diabetics in 2030. it means that 7 million people will be patients annually. up to now, different unadjustable factors have been monitored in self-care for diabetes to manage and ...

this research has been performed with the purpose of investigating the interactive role of accountability and job self-efficacy on organizational citizenship behavior and political behavior of the faculty members. in this research the statistical society included all faculty members of urmia university, among whom 206 persons was selected through straticulate random samplery methods. the way re...

background this study aimed to assess the effects of maternal self-efficacy and oral health-related knowledge on pre-school children oral hygiene behavior. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on 301 mothers with children aged 2–6 years old randomly selection from health centers of tabriz, iran.  data were collected using self-report questionnaires including demographi...