abstract background: hope is the most important factor in diabetic patients’ life. the level of hope may be changing among these individuals as a result of chronic nature of diabetes and its complications. when the level of hope increases among these patients, they can resist against physical and psychological complications of diabetes more, accept the treatment better, enjoy life more, and ada...

purpose: the aim of the current study was to predict the high school students' academic burnout based on social adjustment, academic procrastination and academic hope. materials and method: current research method was descriptive and correlational. the study population included all high school students of the state female high schools of bojnourd. 350 students were selected as a sample emp...

the relationship between death obsession and death anxiety, with hope among the nursing students of urmia medical sciences university     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] *, basharpour s [3] , maroei millan f [4]     received: 15 may , 2013 accepted: 21 jul , 2013  abstract  background & aims : death, an inevitable concept that associates with human being all the time, can cause significant an...

Why are chemicals that have been banned for over a decade still being detected in the environment? How is it that chemicals and other pollutants such as particulate matter turn up hundreds or even thousands of miles from their sources? These are just two of the questions that a team of American and Canadian scientists hope will be answered using a model they have developed to track pollutants a...

this study investigates the relationship between meaningfulness of life and hope, happiness, depression and life satisfaction. participants consist of 382 women who work in schools and other educational organizations in shiraz. the techniques used include life regard index (lri), depression- happiness scale (dhs), satisfaction with life scale (swls), and adults dispositional hope scale (adhs). ...

Background and Objective: Hope therapy is an efficient and positive psychology intervention used to treat chronic diseases. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hope therapy on anxiety and depression using an Islamic approach and compare this approach with conventional hope therapy in coronary heart disease (CAD) patients. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in...

Background and Objectives: The decreased level of self-esteem and life satisfaction is prevalent among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an Islamic approach to hope therapy on the promotion of self-esteem and life satisfaction in comparison with its conventional approach in patients with CAD. Methods: The study was conducte...