objective: the main purpose of this study was to validate the short-form of the emotional skills and competence questionnaire (escq) scale among iranian undergraduate students.   method: a total of 250 nurse undergraduate students participated in this study. participants completed the escq in addition to measures of sheering emotional intelligence questionnaire and student's demographic questio...

patients afflicted with chronic pain have both physical and psychological problems. this research investigated the impact of the psychological factors in the treatment results of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (tens) in the patients afflicted with chronic diseases. the subjects were 37 individuals (20 males and 17 females) with the mean age of 46 who had referred to two centers of ...

conclusions the findings showed a relative concordance between psychiatric interviews and psychological assessments in the clinical diagnosis of mental illness. background one of the most important issues to diagnose mental disorders is the use of independent tools with similar results. documented history is an important tool to diagnose diseases at each stage. the first and fundamental step in...

There is a need for a standardized psychological method of evaluation of psychopathology comparable to the standardized psychological method for evaluation of intelligence. A quantitative approach to the identification of maladaptive behavior patterns is provided by the Structured Clinical Interview (SCI). The SCI was designed to serve as an individual test of social and psychological adjustmen...

Education, a long neglected variable affecting psychological test score, is in search of reemphasis. Some evidence for this has accumulated on the psychological tests constructed and standardized here at the department of Psychiatry, P.G.I., Chandigarh. Tentative norms prepared education wise on WAIS-Verbal section, PGI-Memory Scale, Proverb and Similarity Tests, Psychoticism Questionnaire, and...