objective: the aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the persian adaptation of abbreviated math anxiety scale (amas), proposed by hopko, mahadevan, bare & hunt. method: the validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from tabriz university in iran. the confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) was carrie...

Studies that combine moderation and mediation are prevalent in basic and applied psychology research. Typically, these studies are framed in terms of moderated mediation or mediated moderation, both of which involve similar analytical approaches. Unfortunately, these approaches have important shortcomings that conceal the nature of the moderated and the mediated effects under investigation. Thi...

The purpose of this research was identifying mechanisms for the development of human resources in Khouzestan sugarcane agro industrial company, Iran. This is an applied study and the research method was descriptive correlative. The population consisted of employees working in the sugarcane agro industrial company in the province of Khuzestan, Iran(N=315). One hundred and seventy five people wer...

background: in any research work the used tools to approach the designed project goals, should be evaluated. the purpose of the present study was to obtain validity and reliability of nutritional knowledge, illness perception and dietary adherence questionnaire. methods: the questionnaire of student ratings of teaching was evaluated in a descriptive study. in this study the views of 11 expert f...

food security in iran has closely relation with wheat and flour and its waste. the study of food pattern in the iran provinces shows that bread is the major source of calorie and protein in the country daily diet. the main purpose of this study was to analyze factors, affecting bread wastes in the bahar county in the hamedan province. the research was conducted based on the applied-descriptive....

accelerated soil erosion is an undesirable process that adversely affects water and soil resources. rainfall erosivity is an important factor in water erosion models. accordingly, the present study was conducted to estimate the rainfall erosivity throughout iran based on the latest available detailed rainfall data while considering its temporal and spatial variations. to accomplish this, th...