Evidence suggests that higher order linguistic functioning such as text comprehension is particularly vulnerable to emotional modulation. Gender has been identified as an important moderating variable in emotional expression such that girls tend toward internalizing emotions (e.g., sadness, anxiety) whereas boys tend toward externalizing emotions (e.g., anger, combativeness), which may influenc...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review examines recent evidence on the comorbidity between literacy problems and psychiatric disorder in childhood and discusses possible contributory factors. RECENT FINDINGS Recent studies confirm the substantial overlap of literacy problems with a range of emotional/behavioural difficulties in childhood. Literacy problems and inattention may share genetic influences,...

objective: the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of addiction to the internet, computer games, dvd, and video and its relationship to anxiety and depression in a sample of iranian high school students. methods: in this cross-sectional study 1020 high school students (males and females) were selected randomly from different areas of shiraz city in southern iran. they were inte...

Based on Humanistic Psychology and Krashen’s Affective Filtering Hypothesis, this study explores the effects English reading anxiety among Chinese students, corresponding countermeasures are put forward to it. anxiety, one of emotional factors that have a great effect foreign language learning, mainly refers feeling not being able achieve desired goal or overcome mental obstacle. The results in...