Social anxiety disorder (SAD) a type of psychological disorder with persistent fear and avoidance of social situations due to fears of evaluation. SAD is associated with significant impairment in social and work functioning. Gender differences in social anxiety disorder are important for treatment seeking. Although SAD is One of the most common psychological disorders, there has been few resear...

Abstract Social anxiety disorder characterized by fear of negative evaluation by others, high levels of anxiety and avoidance of social and functionally situations. The purpose of this study was to investigate Effectiveness of  Task Concentration Training in reduction fear of  others´ negative evaluation in people with social anxiety disorder. This study was a quasi-experimen...

 This study attempts to find the effects of learning strategies in increasing the tolerance of ambiguity and hence the language proficiency. To this aim 135 Shahed University students were randomly selected according to their English Entrance exam grades and CELT proficiency test scores to make sure that the subjects are culturally and linguistically homogeneous. These subjects filled out the q...

The objective of this study was to investigate reliability and validity of a brief self-report scale (GAD-7) developed to identify probable cases of generalized anxiety disorder. The GAD-7 is a 7-item self-report questionnaire developed by Spitrzer in 2006, for screening for GAD and assessing its severity in clinical practice and research. 199 students selected from Shahed University for the st...

AbstractObjectives: The present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy with Heimberg’s model on Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) Symptoms Reduction among female students. Method: Social Phobia Inventory (SPI) was administrated to 205 female students of Shahed University and 24 individuals were selected using structured clinical interview for social...

Background and Objective: Microbial contamination of dental units is always a health problem in dentistry. This infection can be transmitted to patients. This study was done to evaluate the rate of bacterial contamination of water in dental unit of Shahed University, in particular by Escherichia coli (E. coli).   Materials and Methods: A total of 42 water samples from 7 dental units (end...

This research was conducted to investigate the effects of external application of auxin and cytokinin on biochemical characteristics of Stevia (sweet variety), as a factorial experiment with randomized complete blocks design, in Shahed University, Tehran, Iran. Treatments were four levels of NaCl (without salinity (2 mM), 40, 80 and 120 mM) and hormonal factor (0.1 mg/L auxin (IAA) and combined...

Abstract The main goal of this research has been design the auditing model for research and educational processes to based on its findings, context, dimensions, elements and requirements that have essentiality and efficiency to research and educational processes audit, develop and explanation. The present study from the point of goal has been applied research and has been done by Exploratory Mi...

 The present study attempts to improve the “value” system of Shahed University students at various theological, economical, political, social, artistic and religious levels. For this purposes 242 students and 50 instructors were randomly selected and responded to 45 statements of Allport’s et al. Questionnaire (SOV), for which the validity and reliability were confirmed. The findings revealed t...