introduction: this study was conducted with aim of investigating the relationship between religious orientation and self-esteem of students. methods: the present research was of a correlational study. the research population consisted of all students (boys and girls) studying at islamic azad university, payam noor and applied science universities in darehshahr city in the academic year of 2013-...

test anxiety as a common disorder is a physiological condition in which students experience extreme stress, anxiety and discomfort during and/or before taking a test. this kind of anxiety results from the sense of threats like fear of failure, lack of confidence and setting unattainable goals in learning and wishing to be perfect in academic situation. resulting anxiety disrupts attention, memo...

Current understanding in locomotion research is that, for humans, navigating natural environments relies heavily on visual input; in contrast, walking on even ground in man-made obstacle and hazard-free environments is so highly automated that visual information derived from floor patterns should not affect locomotion and in particular have no impact on the direction of travel. The vision liter...

the increasing growth and development of communications technology has created a major change indifferent aspects of human life and organizational performance. new technologies have changed function and attitudes of individuals and organizations and have become an important aspect in creating new jobs and innovation in organizations. development of new phenomena such as electronic business, ele...

objectives: the present study explored the role of religious orientations to predict identity styles. in the past decades identity style has been one of the basic discussion in social and personality psychology. recently, religious orientation was converted to the core perspective in religious psychology. based on this, this study has been examined the role of religious orientations in predict ...

Background and Objectives: The organizational commitment of the staff that ensures their continuous and effective presence in the organization is one of the determinants of organizational development. Religion and religious orientation can affect organizational commitment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between organizational commitment and religious orientation in...

decision making plays an important role in sport activities and is directly associated with sporting success or failure. on the other hand, one of the key issues in psychology of sports and behavioral sciences is sport orientation. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of action and state orientation with decision making behavior of expert female football players. 27 players...

high density polyethylene (hdpe) films were produced using cast film extrusion process with different draw ratios, ranging from 16.9 to 148.8. morphology, crystallinty and orientation state of crystalline and amorphous phases of the cast films were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (sem), differential scanning calorimetry (dsc) and polarized fourier transform infrared spectroscopy...

The present study was an attempt to assess religious orientation and life satisfaction as well as to find out relationship of religious orientation with life satisfaction among university students. University students were also compared on religious orientation and life satisfaction with respect to their gender. The data for the present study was obtained from university students [N=200 (Males ...