The article considers the axiological aspect of future world construction in English political discourse. image is regarded as a mental structure shaped by linguoaxiological operations. Its content predetermined scenario present, encoded language units. critical role concept “innovation” construal has been revealed. tool kit consists of: 1) cognitive script future; 2) means its verbalization; 3...

aim and background: in this study, the psychometric properties and hierarchal structural validity of short form health survey scale (sf-36) among students using structural equating modeling was investigated. methods and materials: a sample with 310 students (158 male and 152 female) from tehran university were chosen by multistage sampling method. for verifying discernment validity, two clinica...

The tripartite function of faculty members in higher education includes instruction, research, and extension. Built-in into this was to produce instructional materials for students’ teachers’ consumption. objective study evaluate computer-generated (CGIMs) used college geometry courses. To attain this, the researchers descriptive-evaluative design. respondents were twenty (20) teachers teaching...

BACKGROUND The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) was developed to meet demand for instruments to measure mental well-being. It comprises 14 positively phrased Likert-style items and fulfils classic criteria for scale development. We report here the internal construct validity of WEMWBS from the perspective of the Rasch measurement model. METHODS The model was applied to data ...

Scientists have traditionally assumed that different kinds of mental states (e.g., fear, disgust, love, memory, planning, concentration, etc.) correspond to different psychological faculties that have domain-specific correlates in the brain. Yet, growing evidence points to the constructionist hypothesis that mental states emerge from the combination of domain-general psychological processes tha...