Teachers’ Psychological Needs Link Social Pressure with Personal Adjustment and Motivating Teaching Style

Attachment style and psychological adjustment in couples.

The present study addresses the gap in research concerning poor marital support together with insecure attachment style explaining risk for anxiety or depression in both members of a couple expecting a baby. The Attachment Style Interview (ASI) was administered separately to both members of a couple (N = 126) during the second trimester of pregnancy together with measures of state-anxiety (STAI...

The Social and Psychological Needs

Personal-Public Displays: Motivating Behavior Change through Ambient Information and Social Pressure

Our research investigates how public displays of personal information can be used to motivate behavior change. We describe six characteristics that are important for such information displays to embody. These build on two well-established methods for motivating behavior: presenting pertinent information at the point-of-decision and leveraging social pressure. To investigate how these personal-p...

Relational aggression, gender, and social-psychological adjustment.

Prior studies of childhood aggression have demonstrated that, as a group, boys are more aggressive than girls. We hypothesized that this finding reflects a lack of research on forms of aggression that are relevant to young females rather than an actual gender difference in levels of overall aggressiveness. In the present study, a form of aggression hypothesized to be typical of girls, relationa...

Relationship between Iranian EFL Teachers' Brain Dominance, Teaching Experience and their Teaching Style

The present study sought to explore the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers' brain dominance, teaching experience and their teaching style. The study population consisted of all EFL teachers of high schools in Shiraz holding a B.A degree, with the sample consisting of 100 participants recruited through convenience sampling. The study employed a descriptive correlational design. To collect...