BACKGROUND The implications of self-medication practices are increasingly recognized around the world; however, little has been reported on the extent of self-medication practiced in Palestine. OBJECTIVE To determine the reasons, extent, and correlates of self-medication practices among university students in Palestine. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire eliciting self-medication pra...

The  present  study  attempted  to  examine  the  relationship  between  English  as  a  Foreign Language  (EFL)  learners’ motivational beliefs and their use of learning strategies. The three components  of  motivation,  i.e.  expectancy  component,  value  component  and  affective component,  were  examined  in  relation  to  metacognitive,  cognitive  and  effort  management strategies.  Tw...

The current study investigated the effects of interruption complexity and timing on learning and selfregulation, during computer-based training. Self-regulatory learning processes of self-efficacy, meta-cognition, and affect were examined as mediators, and cognitive ability and goal orientation were examined as moderating influences. Interruptions that occurred earlier in training and that were...

INTRODUCTION Self-care oriented people are more likely to undertake self-care activities in order to treat lay self-diagnosed symptoms and restore their own health without professional assistance. One of these activities is self-medication, which refers to the use of medications without medical consultation. The absence of permanent doctors in rural Greece encourages self-medication practices. ...

Self-determined work motivation predicts important job outcomes, such as job satisfaction [Richer, S. F., Blanchard, C., & Vallerand, R. J. (2002). A motivational model of work turnover. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 2089– 2113], but what predicts self-determined work motivation is less fully understood. We tested general causality orientation—specifically autonomy and control orien...