Be Your Best You: An Evaluation of a Positive Psychology Intervention Programme in Greece

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So you want to be an Academic Foundation Programme Doctor?

The Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) provides many opportunities in clinical placements for foundation trainees to develop research, teaching and leadership skills.1 These AFP posts are integrated within Foundation Year training schemes and may be part of Foundation Year 1 (FY1) or Year 2 (FY2) rotations. The generic academic skills are developed in addition to competencies within the core F...

an investigation into iranian teachers consistency and bias in evaluation of students writings

while performance-based language assessment has led to an increased authenticity and content validity in the practice of writing assessment, the reliability of ratings has become a major issue. research findings have shown different reactions by native english speaker (nes) and non-native english speaker (nns) teachers to students’ writings. the focus of this study is on investigating whether i...

On game psychology: an experiment on the chess board/screen, should you always "do your best", and why the programs with prescribed weaknesses cannot be our good friends?

It is noted that allowing, by means of some specific "unreasonable" moves, a chess program to freely occupy the center of the board, greatly weakens the program’s ability to see the serious targets of the game, and its whole level of play. At an early stage, the program underestimates the ability of the opponent, and by some not justified attack (advance) loses time and helps the other side to ...

The Effects of Positive Psychology Intervention on Self-Efficacy and Psychological Hardiness of Female Students

The Effects of Positive Psychology Intervention on Self-Efficacy and Psychological Hardiness of Female Students   S.A.A. Mortazavi Emami [1] Gh. Ahghar, Ph.D. [2] Z. Pirani, Ph.D. [3] H. Heidari, Ph.D. [4] R. HamidiPour, Ph.D. [5]   This study was carried out to determine the effects of positive psychology intervention on self-efficacy and psychological hardiness of female students. The...