The main purpose of this study is to test whether students’ performance in official language tests the university context influenced, apart from anxiety, by certain personality traits. A sample 394 students Spain were assessed academic using Test English for International Communication: Listening and Reading (TOEIC L&R), Foreign Language Anxiety Spanish version Classroom Scale (FLCAS), Anxi...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety-based disorder that affects around 2.5% of the population. A common treatment for OCD is exposure therapy, where the patient repeatedly confronts a feared experience, which has the long-term effect of decreasing their anxiety. Some exposures consist of reading and writing stories about an imagined anxiety-provoking scenario. In this paper, we pr...

Mattick and Clarke's (1998) Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) and Social Phobia Scale (SPS) are commonly used self-report measures that assess 2 dimensions of social anxiety. Given the need for short, readable measures, this research proposes short forms of both scales. Item-level analyses of readability characteristics of the SIAS and SPS items led to the selection of 6 items from each s...

This study examined the predictive role of several learner factors in second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading: L2 proficiency, motivation, anxiety, and mastery of strategies. Participants were 129 English learners in a comprehensive university in China. Participants read two English texts and were given an unannounced vocabulary test to assess their incidental voc...

According to attentional control theory, high trait anxious individuals experience reduced attentional control as compared to low trait anxious individuals due to the imbalance between goal-directed and stimulus-driven attentional systems. One consequence is that high trait anxious individuals have difficulty resisting distraction, as compared to low trait anxious individuals. A separate line o...

The present study assessed the effects of the mindfulness/compassion cultivating program: "Call to Care-Israel" on the performance in visual perception (VP) and motor accuracy, as well as on anxiety levels and self-reported mindfulness among 4th and 5th grade students. One hundred and thirty-eight children participated in the program for 24 weekly sessions, while 78 children served as controls....

OBJECTIVE To find the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among the opioids dependents and to assess the severity of their addiction profile. METHOD Sample comprised of fifty patients admitted in drug treatment and rehabilitation center at Psychiatry Department of Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, between March to August 1997. DSM-IV diagnostic criteria were applied to diagnose substance depen...

this paper provides an overview of the results of research related to anxiety disorders within the context of learning disabilities. about 8% of the student population in iran suffers from learning disabilities (ld). most of the criteria for anxiety disorders in icd–10 or dsm–iv–tr can be applied reliably and validly in individuals with mild-to-moderate learning disabilities. besides the clinic...

A new low vision reading aid is under development that uses advanced technology and aims to improve usability and pleasurability while maintaining the learnability of existing reading aids. Existing video magnifier users, other low vision people and normally sighted matched-age controls completed a reading test using existing machines and a mock-up control panel of the redesigned unit to determ...

This study evaluated the internal structure and convergent and discriminant evidence for the Colorado Learning Difficulties Questionnaire (CLDQ), a 20-item parent-report rating scale that was developed to provide a brief screening measure for learning difficulties. CLDQ ratings were obtained from parents of children in 2 large community samples and 2 samples from clinics that specialize in the ...