Article history: Received 17 May 2011 Accepted 14 May 2012 Available online 24 May 2012

Factor analysis for responses to the WAIS-R by 1,630 adults of the Italian standardization sample produced two factor solutions in different age groups, and showed high factorial similarity when compared with the same American solution. An estimate of g factor and variance components showed some difference with American data: a lower proportion of g and common variance, and a greater specificit...

Evidence suggests that scores on various intelligence tests have been rising at a fast rate. To find out whether performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Vocabulary subtest has also been rising, the authors searched major psychology journals for investigations involving healthy younger and older adult participants and collected the reported WAIS Vocabulary scores. The meta-an...

introduction: now a day, resulting from life style modification and alteration, fatigue, as a consequence, is not uncommon symptom. diverse tools are available to measure fatigue status. one of which is facit fatigue scale. the facit is one of the most widely used questionnaires for screening fatigue. the questionnaire has been translated and validated? into 45 different languages, but there is...

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abstract aim and background: the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of multiple sclerosis self-efficacy scale (msss) in a sample population of iranian patients. methods and materials: this research is a descriptive-correlational study with a population of patients afflicted with ms from north khorasan and hamedan provinces. a number of 120 patients, who had ...

background: mothers are highly vulnerable to depression within the first year after childbirth. approximately 10-20% of mothers suffer from depression during this period, and half of these women with symptoms of prominent postpartum depression (ppd) remain undiagnosed. the edinburgh postnatal depression scale (epds) is the most widely applied screening instrument for ppd evaluation. in this stu...

intensity is one of the useful information in extract earthquake analyzing of a region; then, preparing a complete dataset of them is necessary for each region. one of the best intensity information of the most historical and several instrumental earthquakes in iran (from year 658 to 1979) was reported in an intensity scale with five degrees. there are also several earthquakes with reported int...

the sex hormone progesterone has been shown to improve outcomes in animal models and two early-phase trials involving patients with traumatic brain injury (tbi). the aim of this clinical study was to assess the effect of progesterone on the improvement of neurologic outcome in patients with diffuse and acute tbi. a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial of progesterone was conducted in our...