background and purpose: diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder which is caused by defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both .the most important factor in managing diabetes is self-care. since diabetes self-care behaviors are multifactorial and these factors may directly or indirectly affect self-care, it is possible through the application of path analysis to estimate the di...

I present a specific worked example of evolution through inflation to the initial conditions for an isocurvature CDM model for structure formation. The model invokes three scalar fields, one that drives power law inflation, one that survives to become the present-day CDM, and one that gives the CDM field a mass that slowly decreases during inflation and so “tilts” the primeval mass fluctuation ...

This study investigated the factorial validity of the 33-item self-rated Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS: Schutte et al., 1998) for use with athletes. In stage 1, content validity of the EIS was assessed by a panel of experts (n = 9). Items were evaluated in terms of whether they assessed EI related to oneself and EI focused on others. Content validity further examined items in terms of aware...

Background: Psychological elements could have effective roles on applications for cosmetic surgery and also on their precognition and satisfaction with surgery.  The present study aimed to investigate the relationship of perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas, and attachment styles with body image concern through the moderating role of self-esteem in cosmetic surgery applicants. Methods: It ...

since the staffing are the most important and valuable assets in organization, and achieving organizational goals depends on the commitment and expertise of its human capital, the identification and analysis of issues that impede the flourishing of this valuable asset and led them to be indifference; has a special importance. the aim of this study was analysis of the effect of job characteristi...

The Achievement Motives Scale (AMS) is a well established and frequently used scale to assess hope of sucess and fear of failure. In 3 studies with German-speaking samples (N=3523, N=132, N=126), the authors developed a revised form of the AMS using confirmatory factor analysis. As found in previous research, the original 30-item set of the AMS did not provide an acceptable fit to a 2-factor mo...