Anxiety disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders which can have negative effects on the human life. Children and adults can have anxiety disorders and these disorders can lead to secondary problems such as cognitive, perceptual, emotional and behavioral problems. For treatment of anxiety, the practitioners and psychologists can apply psychotherapy approaches such as: cognitive therapy, Ge...

perfectionism, in fact, is an irrational belief individuals have about themselves and their surroundings. perfectionists believe that they and their surroundings must be complete and any attempt in life must be without error. the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship of positive and negative perfectionism with competitive state anxiety. 100 soccer players completed positive...

up to 19% of breast malignancies may be missed by conventional imaging techniques, especially when they are concurrent or co-located with other benign lesions. however, more sensitive techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (mri), are often too expensive for routine use in developing countries. contrast-enhanced, dual-energy digital mammography (cesm) is a recently introduced imaging mod...

We investigate how negative performance feedback affects board diversity, which is instrumental in shaping a firm’s strategic change. When firm underperforms compared with its aspiration, motivated to promptly address the underperformance. The needs not only help search for alternatives but also quickly build consensus around reorientation. These two motivations lead value dimensions of diversi...

mental health in adolescents is influenced by several factors. body image is one of the factors in predicting mental health. moreover, it affects social communication and creates the social anxiety. the present study is cross-sectional and correlational. the statistical population is the guidance and high school students in shiraz in 2013-2014 that 180 students include 101 girls and 79 boys wer...

1196 an embarrassing corrective lesson. The wrong-doings of the media are not as common as is often claimed. Scientific research is also an overwhelmingly honest profession. But both the media and scientists have misled the public on some important matters. And when it comes to uncovering fraud, freedom of the press and an editor who backs an investigative reporter can be superior to the mechan...

AIM The aim of this study was to show the influence of schizophrenia on the individual system of meanings--the way in which the persons describe themselves and their life story. In order to achieve this goal, the analysis of narration of patients suffering from schizophrenia was conducted. METHOD We examined 20 patients suffering from schizophrenia. We interviewed the patients with a structur...