This study investigated the relationship between teachers’ burnout and their affective construct. For this purpose, 384 ELT teachers in different language institutes and schools in Mashhad participated in this study. There were both male (159) and female (225) teachers with different experiences and in different ages. Two instruments were given to teachers and they were asked to complete and gi...

A video affective content representation and recognition framework based on Video Affective Tree (VAT) and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) is presented. Video affective content units in different granularities are firstly located by excitement intensity curves, and then the selected affective content units are used to construct VAT. According to the excitement intensity curve the affective intensit...

this study, in the first place, attempted to examine the relationship between english as foreign language (efl) teachers' affective constructs and their sense of responsibility. in the second place, the roles of teachers' gender, years of teaching experience, school setting, and the number of students in the classroom on teachers' affective constructs and sense of responsibility ...

A comprehensive model of affect and motivation is necessary for disentangling the variance of subject specific measures into components that are (a) construct specific and generalize across different subjects, (b) subject specific and common to different constructs, and (c) specific to a particular construct in a par ticular subject. In the present study, we developed and investigated an integr...

The present study evaluates the psychometric properties of a therapist measure for evaluating the affective communication created between the patient and therapist during the initial stages of treatment. The Affective Communication Questionnaire (ACQ) was administered to a sample of 81 therapists, each rating a single patient, and principal component analysis indicated the measure has coherent ...

In the article “Major Depression With Seasonal Variation: Is It a Valid Construct?” recently published in Clinical Psychological Science, Traffanstedt et al. (2016) conclude that the Major Depression (MD) subtype Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is “a folk psychological construct with limited empirical support” (p.1). In contrast to many prior studies, their report focused exclusively on DSM c...