Lotfollah Karimi; Nematollah Shomoossi; Iraj Safee Rad; Mohsen Ahmadi Tahor
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January and February 2011, , Pages 274-280
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Background and Purpose: Since mental disorders usually occur throughout lifetime, establishing and keeping the sense of spiritual well-being can play a vital role in stress management. The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual well-being and mental health in university students. ...
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Background and Purpose: Since mental disorders usually occur throughout lifetime, establishing and keeping the sense of spiritual well-being can play a vital role in stress management. The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual well-being and mental health in university students. Methods and Materials: In this correlational descriptive study, 400 students from Hamadan Islamic Azad University (177 male and 223 female) with an average age of 22.7±4.57 years were selected through relative categorical sampling method from various faculties. They completed the spiritual well-being scale (SWBS) and general health questionnaire (GHQ-28). Utilized stepwise multiple regression and multivariable analysis of variance (MANOVA) were used in SPSS 16 to analyze the obtained data. Results: The findings showed that mean well-being scores and mental health were 89.18±17.14 and 52.48±15.76 respectively. Also, there was a significant correlation between spiritual well-being and mental health (r=- 0.55). Also, 0.37 percent of mental health variance is explained via religious well-being. The results of the analysis of MANOVA showed that the female students’ scores are higher than those of male ones (p
M KOUSHAN; N SHOMOOSSI; MH RAKHSHANI
Volume 13, Issue 4 , January and February 2007, , Pages 158-165
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Background and purpose: The role of learner’s strategies and skills in learning a foreign language has been investigated in the three last decades. However, the part it plays in ESP achievement tests is not seriously treated. Therefore, it seemed a good reason to conduct a study on the role of study ...
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Background and purpose: The role of learner’s strategies and skills in learning a foreign language has been investigated in the three last decades. However, the part it plays in ESP achievement tests is not seriously treated. Therefore, it seemed a good reason to conduct a study on the role of study strategies in successfully taking the final exam.
Methods and Materials: In this quasi-experimental interventionist study, the SILL questionnaire was given to 253 students taking an ESP course (1384-85 / 2005-2006) to identify their use of language learning strategies. A few moments prior to taking their finals, they took Spielberger's anxiety test to estimate their test anxiety.
Results: According to the findings, mean anxiety scores in boys and girls before the final exam were 146.72 and 120.46 respectively, which did not show any significant difference. However, a negative linear relationship was found to exist between SILL score (meta-cognitive strategies in particular) and test anxiety.
Conclusion: Among many other outcomes, test anxiety is attributable to inappropriate study habits in adult ESP learners, which requires consideration by both instructors and textbook compilers.