the purpose of the present study was to examine differences in lifestyle factors such as physical activity among homosexual (gay or lesbian), bisexual, and heterosexual korean adolescents.the sample consisted of 74,186 adolescents from grades 7-12 (ages 12-18) who participated in the 8(th) annual korea youth risk behavior web-based survey in 2012. of this sample, only 11,829 provided enough inf...

introduction: psychological constructs such as locus of control, personality traits, self-esteem and religiosity orientation play an important role in creating discipline desired behavior. this research aimed to investigate the relationship between locus of control, personality trait, self-esteem and religiosity with discipline desired behavior. materials and methods: this is a descriptive anal...

Drawing on Robinson’s cognition hypothesis, the study attempted to examine how task conditions influence EFL learners’ oral performance and whether learners’ individual differences in terms of tolerance of ambiguity and self-efficacy mediate the effects of such conditions. To this end, 62 Iranian intermediate EFL learners from private language institutes in Tehran performed four dyadic decision...

Introduction: Working in the complex and ever changinghealthcare settings forces the nurses and nursing students to beequipped with lifelong learning skills. One of the lifelong learningskills is self-directed learning. This study aimed to explore theM.Sc. nursing students’ self-directed learning activities.Methods: A qualitative design using conventional content analysisapproach was used in th...

in recent years academic and research centers have been driven by a number of significant factors to improve their performance and financial self-reliance. the goal of this paper is to study the impact of entrepreneurial orientation on organizational performance of 25 institutes and research centers located in tehran. moreover, the paper intends to show that the extent of organizational justice...

In the face of claims that economics is increasingly driven merely by fashion, this paper draws out certain similarities and differences between two selfconsciously progressive and developmental research programmes—namely the LSE approach to econometric modelling and critical realism in economics. The argument is that, while these two programmes of research share a common point of departure and...

This paper focuses on the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China, using the data from 30 interviews with middle class people conducted in Beijing. The existing literature tends to depict the Chinese middle class one-dimensionally as in pursuit of either conspicuous display or frugality and neglect the moral justifications consumers deploy, whereas this paper argues that ...

The aims of this work were to identify and establish differential characteristics in learning strategies, goal orientations, and self-concept between overachieving, normal-achieving and underachieving secondary students. A total of 1400 Spanish first and second year high school students from the South-East geographical area participated in this study. Three groups of students were established: ...