attentional demands and individuals’ cognitive failure are hypothesized to be determinant factors for workload assessment and job analysis, although previous researches have focused merely on one aspect of attentional demands. the objective of this study was to investigate the degree to which various attentional paradigms would be demanding to the participants with different levels of cognitive...

posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a common response to traumatic events. a cognitive model proposed that ptsd becomes chronic when individuals process the trauma in a way that leads to a sense of serious, current threat. the sense of threat arises as an outcome of excessively negative appraisals of the trauma and its sequel and a disturbance of autobiographical memory. variations in the n...

background: motherhood is a transformative and pleasing experience in a woman’s life. however, given the physical and psychological changes, it can induce a degree of stress and anxiety in mothers. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of cognitive-behavioral stress management (cbsm) on maternal anxiety and depression during pregnancy and newborns’ apgar scores. methods: this...

background and purpose : cancer is considered as one of the most radical hygienic issues in children. it threats the health and active lives of children and their parents causing numerous personal, familiar and social damages in physical, mental and social dimensions. this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of stress management with cognitive-behavioral approach on the anxiety sensiti...

Substantial progress in documenting the role of psychosocial stress in the etiology and development of physical and mental disease has been made in the past 10 years. Although the exact mechanisms with which stress impacts health are not fully understood, it is thought that the negative emotional and cognitive effects of stress alter the immune response and increase susceptibility to disease. S...

Background The aim of the present research was to compare the effectiveness of training cognitive behavioral therapy and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) strategies on mitigating anxiety, depression, and stress of students. Materials and Methods: The method of this semi-experimental research was pretest posttest with control grou...

results in the current study, no statistically significant differences were found between the study groups in demographic variables (p > 0.05). analysis of covariance revealed significant differences between the study groups in all the 3 variables in posttest compared to the pretest. the mean scores of depression, anxiety, and stress in the micbt group were significantly lower than the control ...