abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Normal fertility follows a set of biological, social and cultural rules and regulations; controlled fertility, however, follows the rules and regulations of the family. The present study was therefore conducted to identify the factors influencing the first childbearing decision-making in women living in Shahroud, Iran, in 2014. MATERIALS & METHODS The present descripti...

Fertility behavior based on stimuli, decision making process, and related attitudes can be considered as social behavior that occurs in a social environment. The general objective of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting the tendency towards childbearing among married women in Mazandaran province. The sample size of this study is 100 people who were selected by purposive ...

This study aims to assess student motivation provide valid responses the PISA questionnaire. was done by modeling response times using a three-component finite mixture model, comprising two satisficing styles (rapid and idle) one optimizing style. Each participant’s operationalized as their probability of providing an questionnaire items. Overall, model offered good fit data. Results indicate t...

CONTEXT The desire for sons often influences fertility behavior in India. Women with a small number or low proportion of sons may be more likely than other women to continue childbearing. METHODS Data from India's 2005-2006 National Family Health Survey were used to examine several hypotheses regarding the association between sex composition of children and parity progression among parous wom...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk-taking behavior has been shown to be associated with adolescent pregnancy or childbearing. However, the specific risk-taking behavioral factors and the extent to which they are associated with adolescent childbearing is less clear. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk-taking behavioral factors associated with adolescent childbearing. METHODS In this ...