Background and purpose: Population aging and advancing longevity is one of the achievements of the present century. Life satisfaction is considered as a typical sign of a successful adaptation to changes in various life situations. It seems that self-efficacy and social support may be associated with life satisfaction. There are limited publications in this field, so this study was done to ...

Background & objectives: Marital relationship is one of the significant dimensions of life. Having marital satisfaction plays an important role in professional status of nurses. Appreciation, sense of humor and social support are factors that can effect on marital relationship. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the relationships between appreciation, sense of humor and social su...

abstract due to the growing importance and influence of the self of the teacher in the field of educational and cognitive psychology, the current study intended to investigate the relationship between three teacher qualities and characteristics, i.e. teacher self efficacy, self regulation, and success as perceived by their learners. the study aimed at finding whether teacher self efficacy an...

this study considers the level of increase in customer satisfaction by supplying the variant customer requirements with respect to organizational restrictions. in this regard, anp, qfd and bgp techniques are used in a fuzzy set and a model is proposed in order to help the organization optimize the multi-objective decision-making process. the prioritization of technical attributes is the result ...

Background: Retirement is a stage in life in which retirees are less satisfied with their retirement. It is essential to study the issues of the post-retirement period and the role of their re-employment on mental and physical health. Therefore, the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of coping with job stress training with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on the perception of w...

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

legal establishment of court is the birth of social life; each person should define him/herself against others offence or violation. when a society forms and the legal character appears, the thought of society refers to a person name prosecuting attorney who is the president of the court for defending his/her rights. prosecuting attorney remindterms such as court, crime and punishment. accordi...

recent years have witnessed an increased attention to form focused instruction and consciousness raising activities (ellis, 2002; doughty & williams, 1998) on the one hand and extensive and meaningful exposure to the target language (klapper & rees, 2003; day & bamford, 1998) on the other. due to significance attributed to above mentioned issues by scholars, this study attempted to bridge them ...