The fundamental role of political discussions in democracy has been frequently highlighted by quantitative and qualitative literature at the intersection communication media effects. Most research revolved around whether, if so under what conditions, social platforms constitute public spaces where can be nurtured promoted. Building on this underscoring importance individuals’ self-effects theor...

this study, in the first place, attempted to examine the relationship between english as foreign language (efl) teachers' affective constructs and their sense of responsibility. in the second place, the roles of teachers' gender, years of teaching experience, school setting, and the number of students in the classroom on teachers' affective constructs and sense of responsibility ...

The article provides an analysis of the affective polarization public sphere, namely, increasing momentum gained by sensemaking in current socio-institutional scenario (e.g. raise populism, distrust democracy and spreading xenophobia). To this end, Semiotic Cultural Psychology Theory (SCPT) is outlined. SCPT focuses on embodied micro-mechanisms bridging intra- inter-psychological levels semioti...

conclusions these findings demonstrated that metacognition had an important role in predicting alexithymia in the substance abusers, which underscores the necessity of precautionary measures. patients and methods the research sample included addicts (males and females aged 10 to 70 years) who referred to the addiction treatment and counseling centers of three iranian cities of zahedan, sari, an...

employee commitment is the terminology used to describe whether employees have a strong belief and accepts organizational goals and values. the thesis of this study is founded on the conviction that an organization cannot be expected to perform effectively and efficiently when its employees are not committed. there are many measurable support that employee commitment is a critical factor that d...

ABSTRACT The aim of the present study is twofold: 1 to investigate strategies used by a group trainee teachers during implementation via WhatsApp pre-task activities inspired autobiographical approach; 2. analyse whether and how learners show emotional engagement through online messages, referred here as ability express their own personal sphere in host country’s language. case consists observa...

the present study intended to propose a causal model of factors that would predict oral communication apprehension (oca) of iranian learners of english as a foreign language. to conduct the study, 135 male and female university students majoring in english were selected. five variables including: learners’self-esteem and introversion/extroversion(as independent variables), their gender and prof...