This study examines how the level of concreteness and abstraction climate change imagery influences people’s responses via emotional valence, such effect is moderated by visual literacy. Findings show that concrete images promote negative feelings, which subsequently reduce perceived distance to change, encourage concern behavioral intention. Less visually literate people are more influenced vi...

As human-driven climate change advances, many adults fret about the losses of livelihoods, houses and farms that may result. Children fret about their parents' worries and about information they hear, but do not really understand about the world's climate and perhaps about their own futures. In chronically worried or anxious children, blood cortisol levels rise and adverse changes accrue in var...

the current study was after probing the would-be correlation between emotional intelligence (and its subcomponents), on the one hand, and metacognitive listening strategies used by academic efl learners, on the other. benefiting from 72 female and 40 male university students from urmia university, urmia azad university and salams azad university, the current study also strived to find the possi...

BACKGROUND Large proportions of schoolchildren suffer from emotional symptoms and there are large variations across schools. It is unknown to what degree this variation is due to composition of schoolchildren in each school or to contextual factors. Objectives are to identify factors at individual, classroom and school levels associated with emotional symptoms. METHOD Data stem from the Danis...

background: emotional intelligence (ei) has recently been considered as one of the necessary elements for success and achievement in medical fields. the present study was conducted in iran to compare the ei in medical and non-medical students adjusted for the other relevant factors. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from october 2011 to january 2012 on 872 students of medicine, ...