one of the most important factors affecting relapse of addiction is craving beliefs of substance use. the goal of the present study was assessment of the effectiveness of coping skills education program to reduce craving beliefs among opium addicts.in a randomized controlled trial, during september 2011 to august 2012, 70 opium addicted men referred to the behavioral disorders and substance abu...

objective: the objective of this study was analyzing the effect of meta-cognition elements on depression, trait and state anxiety symptoms.  methods: in this study, the sample consisted of 224 students of university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences that answered three questionnaires including metacognitive questionnaire (mcq-30), beck depression inventory (bdi-ii) and spielberger s...

present study is aimed at evaluating the effect of rational emotive behavior therapy (rebt) on anxiety and irrational beliefs among infertile women. to assess the level of anxiety and irrational beliefs, 50 infertile women were selected randomly from mediwave ivf and fertility research hospital in mysore city and were administered cattle questionnaires for surveying anxiety and the shortened ge...

the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between epistemological and motivational beliefs about mathematics among gifted students. to this end , 334 first year high school gifted students were selected through applying the otis intelligence test. epistemological beliefs questionnaire (ebq) and motivational beliefs about mathematics scale (mbms) were also used as measurement inst...

A Cartesian skeptic must not accept anything but what is ideally clear and distinct in her mind. She has only few beliefs, but all her beliefs have maximal certainty. Some philosophers recommend that a responsible believer should believe only what is beyond any doubt, namely logical and analytical truths. The common core of such proposals is that maximal certainty is held to be necessary and su...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to develop a reliable and valid method for assessing the cancer-related beliefs of parents with a child in treatment for cancer. METHOD One hundred twenty-five families (119 mothers, 56 fathers) completed a measure of cancer-related beliefs written to reflect common themes associated with the diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer. Participants also c...