Aim: The purpose of this study was the study of relationship between religious attitudes, locus of control and tendency to substance abuse among students of Guilan University. Method: The research design was correlational design. For this purpose, 340 university students of Guilan University selected through Morgan table by cluster randome sampling. Allport religious orientation, Ratter locus o...

burnout is a response to the chronic work stress which is prevalent mostly among the people who do people job, like teaching. the purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument that can measure burnout in foreign language teachers. although some widely used instruments were developed before which measured burnout in teachers, a specific instrument which include specific sy...

Introduction and purpose: The aim of this research was to predict depression and general health based on health locus of control in older adults with chronic diseases. Materials and Methods: This correlation study used convenience sampling method to collect 100 older adults living in Shiraz city. Research instruments included General Health Questionnaire, Geriatric Depression Scale and Healt...

Background: Job satisfaction is the extent of overall attitudes and positive feelings of individuals toward the job and employment conditions that contributed to successful employment. This study examined the relationship between job stress and locus of control internal - external with job satisfaction of teachers and staff of exceptional school. Method: This research is a descriptive – c...

  Introduction : Health locus of control is defined as the extent of one’s belief that his/her health is controlled by internal or external factors. The aim of this study was determining the health locus of control and its relation with the health-promoting behaviors among people over 15 in Bandar Abbas, Iran.   Methods : This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012. To collect data, Form A...

Objectives The prevalence of death anxiety in older adults is high. Thus, the aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between coping strategies and locus of control with death anxiety in older adults. Methods & Materials In this descriptive and cross-sectional study, 113 elderly adults older than 60 years were recruited from the city of Tehran via available sampling method. Fo...

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...