caesarean section is considered as a major surgery which is accompanied by several complications. the present study aimed to determine the effect of behavioral intention model-based educational intervention on reducing the caesarean section among pregnant women. the present interventional study was conducted on 100 primiparous women in the third trimester of pregnancy who were covered by the he...

Purpose: The job performance of employees and managers plays an important role in promoting the organization's performance, and it seems that cultural intelligence can affect it. As a result, the aim of this study was to ranking the efficiency of job performance of employees and managers through cultural intelligence based on the DEA linear programming model. Methodology: This study in terms o...

We aimed to systematically evaluate a generic model of metacognitive therapy (MCT) with a highly comorbid anxiety disorder patient, that had been treated with diagnosis-specific cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) without significant effect. Traditionally, CBT has progressed within a disorder-specific approach, however, it has been suggested that this could be less optimal with highly comorbid p...

While research in metacognition has grown significantly in the past 10 years, there has been a relative lack of research devoted to the focused study of the interactions between metacognition and affective processes. Computational models represent a useful tool which can help remedy this situation by constructing causal models of demonstrated correlational relationships, and by generating empir...

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive strategy instruction intervention on reducing language listening anxiety of Iranian EFL learners in the light of 2 listening metacognitive strategy instruction models of Integrated Experiential Learning Task (IELT) (Goh, 2010) and Metacognitive pedagogical Sequence (MPS) (Vandergrift, 2004). Participants were 63 B1 level learners who...