background: the aim of present study was to determine the influence of stress management on affective control and distress tolerance in mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities. methods: this current study was a study with pretest-posttest and treatment group. the thirty mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities were selected from sensory-motor disabilities center in qum by...

☆ Preparation of this manuscript was supported by gr on Drug Abuse (DA015131) and U.S. Army Research In Social Sciences (contract W91WAW-08-C-0032). The vi contained in this article are solely those of the authors a an official Department of the Army orDODposition, policy ed by other documentation. ☆☆ Wewould like to thank Andrew D’Agostino for his d completing this research. ⁎ Corresponding au...

This study investigated to what extent the timing organisation of a first language (L1) influences the production of a second language (L2). We studied the timing compensation phenomenon as a tool for analysis of rhythmic organisation. Previous phonetic studies show that the mora is the basic unit of speech timing in Japanese, whereas in French the duration of a phrase is dependent on the numbe...

☆ This research was prepared with the support of a S Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholar SSHRC Research Grants to Steven J. Spencer and Mark Eibach, Danielle Gaucher, Aaron Kay, A. David Nussbau Greg Walton for providing comments on earlier drafts o Karmali for her help with data collection in Study 1. ⁎ Corresponding author. Department of Psycholo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L ...

Food neophobia is an eating disturbance defined as the fear of trying new foods. In its extreme, the disorder can lead to malnutrition, limited social functioning, and psycholo gical difficulties. Successful treatment of food neophobia in children has been reported, but if those children are not provided with treatment, it stands to reason that the disorder may follow them into adulthood. To da...

the main purpose of this research was to study the variables and factors that affect adaptation of university to external environment and to develop a model for assessment of tehran public universities adaptation to external environment. a mixed method research approach involving a three-round delphi study was used to record responses to the closed-questions and open-ended-questions. other data...

background in addition to physical adaptation and psychosocial adjustment to chronic renal disease, hemodialysis (hd) patients must also adapt to dialysis therapy plan. objectives the aim of the present study was to examine the effect of roy’s adaptation model-based patient education on adaptation of hd patients. patients and methods this study is a semi-experimental research that was conducted...

and two anonymous auditors for their helpful comments. ABSTRACT Previous field research suggests that there is an increasing need for auditors to rely more extensively on enquiry based evidence. This study investigates how using various theory-and practice-based based interventions can lead to a more rigorous enquiry process. Based on psycholo gy theory on planning and on goal setting, as well ...