Trait emotional intelligence (EI) refers to a constellation of emotional self-perceptions located at the lower levels of personality hierarchies. This study investigated the predictive and incremental validity of this construct in a sample of 1140 pupils aged 11–13 years. Trait EI showed strong concurrent and predictive validity in relation to three measures of socioemotional competence: self-r...

Representational competence (RC), defined as “the ability to simultaneously process and integrate multiple external representations (MERs) in a domain”, is a marker of expertise in science and engineering. However, the cognitive mechanisms underlying this ability, and how this ability develops in learners, are poorly understood. In this paper, we present a fully manipulable interface, designed ...

background and purpose: responsibility among adolescents is of great significance, and families can influence sense of responsibility by creating purpose in life and developing social competence. herein, we aimed to investigate the structural model of the relationship of family functioning and social competence with sense of responsibility and mediating role of purpose in life in this relations...

The thesis of this paper is threefold: (1) that congregational polity in Baptist ecclesiology was undergirded, particularly in its early days, by a conviction that Christ had granted to each local church power and authority (what I call competence) to order its own affairs; (2) that over a long period of time, but particularly in the late nineteenth century, a variety of factors developed in Am...

objective: a clinically feasible convergence angle in full-coverage crown preparations, meeting the requirements for proper retention and resistance forms, has always been a matter of interest for laboratory and clinical researches. this study aims to evaluate the angle in teeth prepared by both under- and post-graduate students at tehran university of medical sciences, faculty of dentistry, de...

BACKGROUND The main purpose of this study was to determine which correlate, perceived motor competence or motor skill competence, best predicts girls' physical activity behavior. METHODS A sample of 352 girls (mean age=8.7, SD=0.3 yr) participated in this study. To assess motor skill competence and perceived motor competence, each child completed the Test of Gross Motor Development-2 and Phys...