based on how formal a conversation is, how much familiar the speaker and the listeners are with each other and how distant is the speaker's social status from the listener's one, the speaker uses certain forms of language known as styles of language. linguistic styles are different from language varieties. selection of the styles depends on definite social situations and the kind of r...

Many portfolio managers measure performance with reference to a benchmark. The difference in return between a portfolio and its benchmark is the active return of the portfolio. Portfolio managers and their clients want to know what caused this active return. Performance attribution decomposes the active return. The two most common approaches are the Brinson-Hood-Beebower (hereafter referred to ...

School refusal behaviour has a major impact on the lives of children and adolescents, seriously affecting their personal, academic social adjustment. The objectives this research were: (1) to identify, using latent profile analysis, school profiles based functional model (2) analyse relationship between identified self-attributions in language literature. Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised (SRAS-...

Although current literature on learning styles shows that matching a teacher’s instructional style with the learning styles of students affects performance in a classroom environment, little is known about the influence of learning styles in online interaction. The paper argues that students’ individual learning styles influences how students interact online and that rather than adapt to user’s...

objectives: the present study was aimed to determine the effect of psychological immunization on pessimistic attribution in female students with dyslexia. methods: the study was an experimental one, in which 60 female students with dyslexia were selected randomly from learning disabilities centers in isfahan. subjects  were  assigned to experimental and control groups (15 individuals in each gr...

Introduction: Previous studies have reported contradicting results about the effect of medication therapy on attribution bias and jumping to conclusion (JTC) bias in schizophrenic patients. This study aims at analyzing the effect of medication on attribution bias and JTC bias in schizophrenic patients. Methods: This study is an ex post facto and casual-comparative research. 28 people includi...