objectives: adolescence is a period of life in which the individuals face many mental problems concerned with mental body image. obesity could be the cause of dissatisfaction and makes adolescents’ self-esteem to decrease. this study aimed to examine the adolescents’ satisfaction of their body image correlated to their self-esteem. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study all of the...

the aim of this research was to study the self-citation of physical education professors in “olympic” and “harakat” journals from 2003 to 2009. the amount and number of papers with self-citation, the ratio of self-citation authors to all authors, number of self-citation and its amount, self-citation distribution according to the year of publication and the ratio of self-citation to the type of ...

Students’ self-perceptions are a foundation for educational and psychosocial development. In order to investigate self-perceptions, we need recognise the preconceptions (e.g. doubts confidence) students hold about themselves. this study, examined 10–16-year-old students’ (N=599) self–perceptions from viewpoints of sources self-efficacy in self-regulation behavioural emotional strengths. Specifi...

Introduction: Women are facing inequalities including health, thus their health deserves attention. Investigating people’s health status from their viewpoints is an important measure in terms of public health of society and an indicator to determine the efficiency of health system.  This study aimed at evaluating the self-assessed health of older women living in Shiraz and Yasuj. ...

Nowadays, in line with trends in language teaching that follow the use of student-centered teaching/testing activities, there is growing consensus that students differ in their multiple intelligences. Furthermore, self-efficacy is one of the determining factors of success for people almost in any context. Assuming that the multiple intelligences profiles in tandem with self-efficacy of teachers...