identity and other issues related to it is one the most important matters in human’s life. identity is a complex and multi-dimensional issue; so studying it, considering its importance in different aspects of life, is rough. the main aim of this study is recognizing the effective factors on social identity as well as understanding the imagination and narration of women of themselves. with the u...

This paper assesses the extent to which HIV prevention interventions for young people in sub-Saharan Africa are grounded in theory and if theory-based interventions are more effective. Three databases were searched for evaluation studies of HIV prevention interventions for youth. Additional articles were identified on websites of international organisations and through searching references. 34 ...

In this paper we analyze, from the perspective of ‘Embodied Cognition’, why learning and cognition are situated and context-dependent. We argue that the nature of situated learning and cognition cannot be fully understood by focusing only on social, cultural and contextual factors. These factors are themselves further situated and made comprehensible by the shared biology and fundamental bodily...

the concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...

self-determination theory (sdt) states that satisfaction of basic psychological needs, including the need for autonomy, competence and relatedness will lead to intrinsic motivation. this study examines the relationship between basic psychological needs and intrinsic motivation of iranian female students in mathematics. for this purpose, 382 students of five school responded to the scale of intr...

Expecting Success: Factors Influencing Ninth Graders’ Science Self-Efficacy by Elizabeth Donahue Advisor: Juan Battle What factors influence ninth grade students’ expectations for success in science? Using social cognitive theory and bioecological systems theory as theoretical frameworks, this dissertation employs data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) to examine the rel...

There has been increasing awareness of the need for research and theory to take into account the intersection of individual characteristics and environmental contexts when examining predictors of child outcomes. The present longitudinal, multi-informant study examined the cumulative and interacting contributions of child characteristics (language skills, inattention/hyperactivity, and aggressio...

the main issues in any society are teaching and learning and main elements of this story are the teacher and the learner. there are different psychology schools in which any of them in turn, have taken many extensive researches about behavior, and facts and theories of learning have been studied from a particular perspective. rationalism asserts that the human intellect has the highest energy a...

OBJECTIVE To explore the factors that encompass maternal self-efficacy in providing food for the home. METHODS In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 mothers of nutritionally at risk children in an urban area of East Jakarta, Indonesia. This study was based on Social Cognitive Theory, Family Stress Models, and Ecological Frameworks. Data collection was coded and analyzed using the Grounde...