Whether it is in the notion of ‘Bildung’ or daemonic, reflective engagement with self lies at heart what makes Goethe compelling for modern readers. This article traces language and imagery one self-realization, moral character, Iphigenie auf Tauris Torquato Tasso. It identifies recurrent metaphors associated character eighteenth nineteenth century theoretical popular texts, such as stability, ...

Many applications of virtual agents, including those in healthcare and education, require engaging users in dozens or hundreds of interactions over long periods of time. In this effort, we are developing conversational agents to engage young adults in longitudinal lifestyle health behavior change interventions. Hip-hop and rap are one of the most popular genres of music among our stakeholders, ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between behavioral and emotional engagement of Iranian EFL learners and their attachment to their teachers. Both teachers’ and students’ perceptions of their relationships and students’ engagement have been taken into account. Questionnaire data provided by 311 EFL students and 70 EFL  teachers was used to investigate the relation betwee...

Patient engagement practices are increasingly incorporated in health research, governance, and care. More recently, a large number of evaluation tools and metrics have been developed to support engagement evaluation. This growing interest in evaluation reflects a maturation of the patient engagement field, moving from a “craft” to a reflective “art and science,” with more explicit expected bene...

Considering the growing recognition of the importance of patient engagement in healthcare decisions, research and delivery systems, it is important to ensure high quality and efficient patient engagement evaluation tools. In this commentary, we will first highlight the definition and importance of patient engagement. Then we discuss the psychometric properties of the patient engagement evaluati...

After two land use planning cycles over twenty years, Teton County, Wyoming, is still losing its distinctive natural and social amenities to development pressures. There is declining trust that local government can maintain the remaining community character and other values desired by locals. Sustainability planning offers a way to increase the effectiveness of current plans, but it requires su...

the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

statistics anxiety has a positive relationship with academic drop-out and deserves greater attention. this study examines a model explaining the impact of students’ achievement goals on their statistics anxiety through levels of their academic engagement. three hundred and fifteen undergraduate students (53 males and 262 females) who studied educational sciences and psychology in the state univ...

one of the most important issues in educational psychology is school engagement and academic achievement among students. based on self system model, a set of contextual factors (relations with teachers like perceived autonomy, structure, and involvement) through personal psychological characteristics (autonomy, relatedness, competence) is related to school engagement. the purpose of this study ...

this study has been done with the aim of determining the effect of financial and nonfinancial compensation satisfaction on employee engagement considering mediator role of perceived organizational justice. the research statistical population included eight hundred sixty two isfahan municipality employees. three hundred fourtheen persons were selected as the research sample by stratified random ...