OBJECTIVES We investigated how fluctuations and linear changes in health and cognitive resources influence the motivation to engage in complex cognitive activity and the extent to which motivation mediated the relationship between changing resources and cognitively demanding activities. METHOD Longitudinal data from 332 adults aged 20-85 years were examined. Motivation was assessed using a co...

The purpose of this factorial study was to establish normative data for the Italian version of the Communication Attitude Test (CAT) in order to determine whether or not the speech-associated attitude reported by Italian children who stutter (CWS) differs significantly from that of their nonstuttering peers (CWNS). Toward this end, the Italian CAT was administered to 149 CWS and 148 CWNS betwee...

This article has been done with aims to investigate impact of the quality of social security organization policy-making on pensioners' life style in that organization in the city of Mahabad and based on the criteria of environmental, Economic, Social, Political, Health, Personal security, life expectancy, housing and other services have been research case that are the most important factors tha...

The purpose of research was identifying the relationship between social capital and performance of agricultural extension experts, Khouzestan province, Iran. The method of research was a descriptive-correlative. The sample size was agricultural extension experts (n=98). A five-point Likert-type scale was used as instrument to gather data in order to measure the social capital. Data were analyze...

changes emerged in recent decades dramatically affect the formation and intensification of social problems among iranian youth. among the social problems we can mention the social anomy among the social members that reflects the chaos and anomy in the society. this article is allocated to social anomy among tabriz azad university students and effect of social capital on it. the research method ...