OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Affective complaints are involved in bothersome oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). The aim was to determine the relationship between the severity of OD and affective symptoms. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS One hundred seven patients underwent a standardized examination protocol including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and fiberoptic endoscopic ev...

This study examined Omani EFL learners’ perceptions toward their willingness to communicate (WTC) in English. To this end, 204 students majoring in English language at a private university in Oman were assigned a questionnaire adapted from McCroskey’s (1992) WTC scale to determine possible effects of communication and affective variables on their WTC in English. After assessing the normality di...

An important, yet minimally explored, aspect of emotion simulation is the way in which changes in emotion eliciting situations can give rise to different intensities in the resulting emotion instances. Usin~ the work of Ortony, etal. [Ortony e~ al., 1988J as a guide, we propose a set of emotion inLe~siLy ~ariables to be used in modeling the causes of varying emotion intensity, and discuss their...

Since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. Meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...

This paper outlines the development and hardware software integration of an instrumental setup designed towards the real-time assessment of the affective status of a computer user. This assessment is based on the measurement and digital signal analysis of three physiological variables that reflect dynamic changes of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS): Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) measured with an i...

BACKGROUND Previous cross-sectional studies have highlighted a number of obstetric variables that may be associated with the development of broadly defined puerperal (post-partum) psychosis. These include: (a) primiparity, (b) pregnancy complications, (c) delivery complications, (d) Caesarean section, (e) female baby and (f) shorter gestation period. AIMS To examine these risk factors in wome...

Predicting Student Performance in Verbal Math Problems Based on Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Affective Factors F. Karimi, Ph.D. A.R. Moraadi, Ph.D. P. Kadivar, Ph.D. R. Kormi Noori, Ph.D. To determine the predictive role of metacognitive, cognitive, and affective factors in solving verbal math problems, a cluster sample of 450 junior high school  students was given ...

Objective This theoretically based study examined nurse responses to cancer patient expressions of emotion using a videotaped, simulated cancer patient. Methods This study used an experimental crossover design with a videotaped patient expressing anger, sadness, and neutral emotion to elicit nurse responses. Seventy-four nurses from eight sites participated. Responses were coded using Roter int...