objective: the aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of psychological problems in adolescents in five provinces of tehran, khorasan razavi, isfahan, east azerbaijan and fars in iran. methods: in the present cross-sectional and descriptive – analytical study, 5171 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years were selected through multistage cluster sampling method from tehran, isfahan,...

Models of emotional prosody based on perception have typically required listeners to rate emotional expressions according to the psychological dimensions (arousal, valence, and power). We propose a perception-based model without assuming that the psychological dimensions are those used by listeners to differentiate emotional prosody. Instead, multidimensional scaling is used to identify three p...

We developed acoustic and lexical classifiers, based on a boosting algorithm, to assess the separability on arousal and valence dimensions in spontaneous emotional speech. The spontaneous emotional speech data was acquired by inviting subjects to play a first-person shooter video game. Our acoustic classifiers performed significantly better than the lexical classifiers on the arousal dimension....

The purpose of this study was to examine to what extend classroom management efficacy, marital status, gender, and teaching experience predict burnout among primary school teachers. Participants of this study were 523 (345 female, 178 male) teachers who completed inventories. The results of multiple regression analysis indicated that three dimensions of teacher burnout (Emotional Exhaustion, De...

abstract the purpose of the present study is to compare the differentiation between satisfied couples, and conflicting couples in bandar abbas. four components of differentiation (emotional reactivity, emotional cutoff, emotional fusion and i-position) were investigated. 120 couples selected through available sampling procedure: 60 conflicting couples having recourse to counseling clinics in ba...