The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence, self-regulation learning and classroom goal orientation on educational progress of the male students of the first year of high school in Qorve. The total population were selected from the male students of the first year of high school in Qorve, 120 of whom were chosen by simple random sampling. Variables an...

Objectives The present study aimed to investigate the moderating role of subjective well-being on the relationship of goal orientation (skill-oriented, performance-oriented, performance-avoidance) and metacognition with the academic self-efficacy in students of Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch, Ahvaz City, Iran.  Methods This was a cross-sectional research with correlational design. The s...

Introduction: One of the most important goals of universities across the world is to train entrepreneur graduates. Therefore, special attention should be given to variables that can affect entrepreneurial characteristics. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation of critical thinking disposition and achievement goal orientation with student entrepreneurial characteristics. Methods: T...

The competitive environment of international tourism industry has exposed urgent need for focus on this area. Increasing competitive capability, which can lead to maintaining and increasing market share, has become a major goal world over. Hence, the present study tries to present a quantitative approach, based on major tourism competitiveness theories and reliable survey methods...

Introduction: Goal orientation is one of the factors influencing academic achievement and behavior. It can also explain the relationship between the university student’s beliefs about academic achievement, engagement, and continuity in performing a learning task. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 135 Midwifery students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences included...

Introduction: work engagement is a stable and positive state of mind associated with work, which protects against job burnout. This study was conducted to determine the contribution of goal orientation, perceived organizational support and Big Five personality traits in predicting job motivation of female teachers in Shahrekord, Iran. Methods: The design of the study was correlational-survey...

Introduction: Academic enthusiasm is one of the important indicators of academic quality. The recognition of teachable factors associated with that in medical sciences is of high importance due to their strong link with clinical practice and ensuring community health, therefore the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between learning strategies and academic enthusiasm with...

there has been a gradual shift of focus from the study of rule systems, which have increasingly been regarded as impoverished, … to the study of systems of principles, which appear to occupy a much more central position in determining the character and variety of possible human languages. there is a set of absolute universals, notions and principles existing in ug which do not vary from one ...

this thesis attempts to investigate the effects of prelistening activities on enhancing iranian efl learners` listening comprehension. the present study investigated ways in which learners` background knowledge could be activated in order to enhance their l2 listening comprehension by limiting the number of possible text interpretations prior to listening. the experiments conducted in this stud...