abstract background: chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease are among the most prevalent and costly of all global health problems. coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death worldwide, including iran. one aspect of living with chronic illness is self-management which can reduce the impact of illness on daily life and maintain the quality of life. a qualitative understanding of...

conclusions implementing the self-management program plus regular follow-up increased the perception of self-efficacy in patients with ms. similar self-management programs are recommended to be integrated in the regular caring of patients with ms. results no significant difference in mean scores of baseline self-efficacy was found between the control (52.90 ± 8.03) and the intervention groups (...

conclusions lack of difference in self-esteem of disabled people in different degrees of disability and in both men and women suggests that disabled people should not be presumed to have low self-esteem, and their different aspects of life should be attended to, just like others. furthermore, studies should be designed and implemented based on psychological, social and environmental factors tha...

background: diabetes is one of the chronic and prevalent diseases in the world. the number of diabetic patients has increased 7 times during the last 20 years. if the current trend continues, there will be 350 million diabetics in 2030. it means that 7 million people will be patients annually. up to now, different unadjustable factors have been monitored in self-care for diabetes to manage and ...

the present study was conducted to examine the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of iranian efl teachers and also the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of intermediate adult learners individually. to this end, 40 efl teachers and 55 intermediate adult learners were selected from two branches of kish language institute. in this study, “...

one of the factors influencing the athletes’ performance in critical situations is their awareness of the strategies entailing mental skills. one such skill is self-talk that has been identified as an effective mental training tool in controlling human beings’ behaviors. this study aims to examine the perceived positive and negative effects of self-talk on the athletes’ performance. data were c...

the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...