methods the current cross sectional study included all female high school students in tehran in the 2014 - 2015 academic year. of these, 477 females were selected by multistage cluster sampling. results the results of the correlation matrix was indicative of a significant negative relationship between self-esteem and self-concept clarity with social comparison (p < 0.000). there was a significa...

We investigate how price ceilings and floors affect outomces in continuous time, double auction markets with discrete goods and multiple qualities. Since competitive equilibria need not exist in markets with price contols, we investigated the nature of non-price competition and how markets might evolve in its presence. We develop a quality competition model based on matching theory. Equilibria ...

Although the commonly used Internet Service Provider’s business models based on price comparison may prove to be a successful strategy for organisations in the short term, it may be argued that a sustainable business model for the long term requires a detailed understanding of the various factors that may help ISPs in attracting future customers. This paper therefore examines the influence of a...

The present study sought to provide empirical evidence for the sequential mediating role of social comparison orientation and fear missing out (FoMO) in relationship between self-concept clarity (SCC) problematic smartphone use (PSU) within framework Interaction Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. A sample 474 Italian participants (Mage = 29.48; 52.7% females) completed a battery ...

Customer orientation is one of the new approaches which is recently considered by the Iranian Healthcare Centers. The present study aims to identify the main factors of customer orientation in Iranian hospitals. The study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after recognition of the main variables. Iranian Social Security Organization Hospitals (the major governmental health ins...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

Major scientific findings about women’s sexuality and sexual orientation are reviewed. Sexual orientation is unrelated to mental health. There is no inherent association between gender conformity and women’s sexual orientation; masculinity and femininity are linked to sexual orientation in some social contexts but not in others. Research has so far failed to identify major biological or childho...