Objectives The present study aimed to investigate the moderating role of subjective well-being on the relationship of goal orientation (skill-oriented, performance-oriented, performance-avoidance) and metacognition with the academic self-efficacy in students of Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch, Ahvaz City, Iran.  Methods This was a cross-sectional research with correlational design. The s...

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

from its emergence till present time marxist principles has undergone great changes since their promulgation by marx. many theorists and thinkers set at rectifying marxist tenets and introducing those of their own while others advocated its main concepts and attempted at improving them. among marxist philosophers who had an intensive study of marxs ideology, is louis althusser whose reflections...

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the level of anxiety experienced by Iranian football referees, and to predict the level of referees’ competitive anxiety according to their self-consciousness and coping styles. One hundred thirteen male football referees voluntarily completed a demographic questionnaire, Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS; Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975), and ref...

Background & aim: Treatment adherence is one of the main factors in achieving maximum clinical efficacy. It seems that self-compassion and coping strategies of patients, can be effective on improving treatment adherence. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationship between self-compassion with treatment adherence in cardiovascular patients...

The aim of the research was to investigate the mediating role of self-control in the relationship between coping styles and self-concept of elementary school students in Ardakan. The present study was descriptive-correlational which was performed using Path Analysis. The statistical population consisted of all first-grade male students in Ardakan. Using the cluster sampling method, 330 people w...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between goal orientation (Learning, Performance approach and Performance avoidance) and audit judgment with the mediator role of self-efficacy. The goal orientation is a personality trait that can be effective in performing tasks. The study is a pre-survey type-applied study. Also, a questionnaire was used to survey the subjects and ...