Introduction: Affective capital is one of the positive variables that can be effective in improving the conditions of female students with depression. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of positive mindfulness therapy; mindfulness based cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy on affective capital in female students with depression. Method: The research method was semi-...

Introduction:The Sleep quality is the psychological sensation that affects the quality of life and feeling healthy and also leads to symptoms of mental and physical illness. The purpose of this study was to comparison of effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy, biofeedback therapy and their Integrating  therapy on sleep quality in women with generalized anxiety disorder. Methods: This ...

monumental changes occurring on a daily basis have altered the world into a global village of expanding technology and shrinking geography in which preparing language learners for intercultural communication seems to be a sine qua non for modern language education. employing a cross-sectional design in its first phase, this study investigated the intercultural sensitivity and language proficien...

the present study seeks to determine the effect of explicit instruction of metacognitive strategies on iranian high school students’ reading comprehension ability. it also attempts to investigate the relationship between the learners reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies. furthermore, the study investigates whether iranian efl female high school students are high, medium, or low me...

Introduction: Divorce is one of the most important challenges of any society that changes people's lives. Therefore, the present study aimed to comparing the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness based on cognitive therapy on marital satisfaction and resilience of women seeking divorce. Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the exper...

the purpose of this study was to investigate iranian efl learners’ beliefs about the role of rote learning (rl) in vocabulary learning strategies; besides, the study examined if english proficiency would influence learners’ vocabulary learning strategy use. this study addresses the need for a clear understanding of the role of rl in efl vocabulary learning by looking at iranian efl learners’ ow...

the present study has tried to accomplish an analysis of margaret atwood’s novels oryx and crake, and the year of the flood in the light of posthuman and cyborg theories. considering posthumanism as a critical reading of some notions of humanism focus of which in this thesis has been identity, new definitions for humanity and human identity are formed. haraway’s cyborg, as one possible new figu...