test is the majority of student’s life and test anxiety is an experience that has commonly been observed during exams. in fact, anxiety is a vague feeling and very uncomfortable that so often considered to be associated with one or more physical sense, for instance, the empty feeling of heart palpitations, headache and sweating. the purpose of this study is to investigate and to compare the sel...

Growing evidence suggests that work-related psychological injuries are a concern worldwide. While previous efforts to address mainly focused on the individual level of analysis, psychosocial safety climate (PSC) theory emphasizes analysis and prevention at organizational level. there is abundant impact leadership other constructs, scant attention has been paid PSC. This study scoping review ext...

intraorganizational units play a critical role in km processes of acquiring, creating, exchanging, and utilizing knowledge assets. while much attention has been directed to effective knowledge strategies forsupporting organizational km processes, there is a lack of insightful research on knowledge strategy and its implementation at the work-unit level. this study examines two types of work unit...

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis patients are exposed to different stressful factors and have to use coping strategies as supportive processes. The goal of the present study is to investigate coping styles of hemodialysis patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a descriptive analytical study conducted on 96 patients referring to hemodialysis centers affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences...

The size of focused attention was assessed within a three-dimensional display. Subjects viewed random-dot stereogram displays in which they responded differentially to vertical and horizontal bars. Adjacent noise elements either were identical to the response target or specified the opposite response. The position of the noise elements was varied in depth according to binocular disparity. Inter...

Based on evidence of parasympathetic activation, early studies defined meditation as a relaxation response. Later research attempted to categorize meditation as either involving focused or distributed attentional systems. Neither of these hypotheses received strong empirical support, and most of the studies investigated Theravada style meditative practices. In this study, we compared neurophysi...

Parent-child book sharing and reminiscing conversations are two important home activities that promote young children's early language literacy skills. Yet extant research has focused on middle-class Anglo-European families, with relatively little attention given to styles of in other cultural contexts. To further explore practices development Latin America, we examined the relationships betwee...