Purpose: The present study investigated the psychometric properties of a Persian version self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory in the male and female teachers. Materials & Methods:  This study was of a validation type. The participants were 444 teachers selected through a multistage-cluster random sampling among the teachers in high school second period in the city of Bojnord of the ...

this study is an attempt to adapt a post-structural approach for the analysis of ‘trans-relational’ episodes prevalent in the study of workplace discourse analysis. to do this, the talk between three employees working at the same office was recorded and analyzed based on a discourse analytic framework. the results of data analysis revealed that five type of relational episodes are frequent in t...

BACKGROUND Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by fear and avoidance in social situations where one perceives being in danger of scrutiny by others. Low self-esteem, low self-efficacy, high self-criticism and high dependency are additional potential features of SAD, and thus their examination is warranted, as is the elucidation of their inter-relationship. METHOD Thirty-two SAD sub...

The telling of atrocity stories offers therapeutic benefits to healthcare providers. Transcripts of hospice interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings were used to analyze strategies for telling atrocity stories in the performance of symbiotic niceness through criticism. Symbiotic niceness draws upon niceness messages to establish reciprocal niceness by others in order to facilitate emotional labor....

The problem of feature interactions in telephone-and other software systems ((13]) has been identiied as being of great importance, but its solution remains elusive. In recent years, amongst others, several formal approaches have been tried, but the use of formal methods has met with limitations and even criticism. This criticism is discussed in more detail, and two modelling approaches, viz. I...

one of the thinkers¨ demands for governments is to take due care of the social rights of citizens thus far. no doubt, imam `ali (a.s.), as a muslim ruler, concentrated on maintaining man¨s rights both in theory and in practice. this article refers to the relationship between the right and the duty from imam ali¨s viewpoint, studies the foundations of man¨s rights and duties and discusses imam a...

Abstract Are strangers sincere in their moral praise and criticism? Here we apply signaling theory to argue ceteris paribus criticism is more likely than praise; the former tends be a higher-fidelity signal (in Western societies). To offer an example: emotions are often self-validating as because they're hard fake. This epistemic insight matters: influence reputations, affect whether others wil...

On 4 June 2012, the EU Commission submitted a draft of a regulation on “electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market“ [EC12]. Due to its impact onto the infrastructure of the new German identity card (nPA) it is subject to fierce criticism, particularly from Germany. This essay seeks to address that criticism and to discuss potential approaches...