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Exploring Personality Traits as Predictors of the Number of Languages Learned and Their Degree of Proficiency
(2025)The ability to acquire and master multiple languages is a fascinating phenomenon, influenced by a multitude of factors. Among these factors, personality traits have gained considerable attention as ... -
An Inquiry into Third Culture Identity: Reflections on intercultural communication and identity negotiation
(25)This dissertation explores the concept of third culture identity and the development of a multilingual repertoire through an in-depth case study. The exploration has been framed by Ting-Toomey’s Identity ... -
Using DeepL translation tool to address speaking anxiety
(2025)This study examines how Japanese EFL students may utilise DeepL, one of the online translation tools (OTTs), to help them overcome speaking anxiety to increase natural discourse. In this study, 31 ... -
Improving the Teaching of Reading in Upper Primary EFL Classes through Explicit Reading Strategy Instruction: A Professional Development Program for Teachers
(2025)This innovation proposal addresses the need for teacher training on reading comprehension strategy instruction in a primary school in China. The needs analysis revealed that although upper-primary ... -
Alexithymia and learning experience: their relation in foreign language acquisition
(2025)Both positive and negative emotions have demonstrated to have an impact on the foreign language learners’ academic experiences. Many research over the decades have focused on the influence of negative ... -
How can EMI programmes be optimised by students and lecturers through training in innovative pedagogies based on interaction, collaboration and exchange?
(2025)English as a medium of instruction (EMI) is not a new phenomenon; however, due to various policies, it is being implemented without much guidance for teachers and students. Despite its growing popularity, ... -
How task-based pronunciation teaching could improve native Italian speakers' pronunciation of English sounds.
(2025)Pronunciation teaching is considered an important aspect of leaming any new language, with the intended goal of achieving comprehensibility and intelligibility being the primary focus. By drawing from ... -
Palliative care in patients with haematological neoplasms: An integrative systematic review
(Palliative Medicine, 2018-01)Background:Palliative care was originally intended for patients with non-haematological neoplasms and relatively few studies have assessed palliative care in patients with haematological malignancies. Aim:To ... -
Is Early Palliative Care Feasible in Patients With Multiple Myeloma?
(Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2017-11)Context. Evidence for the benefits of early palliative care (EPC) in patients with solid tumors is strong, but EPC has received scant attention in hematologic malignancies. Objective. To assess the ... -
Family caregivers of older people in Spain
(Journal of clinical nursing, 2010-09-14)Aims and objectives: To provide information about the demographic characteristics and the situation of family caregivers of older people in Spain. Background: In Mediterranean countries, such as ... -
Feeling the future again: Retroactive avoidance of negative stimuli
(Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2014-01-01)During the past decades, several theories have been proposed that relate quantum mechanics to information processing in the human mind. These theories predict that the arrow of time has no direction ... -
Measuring forgiveness. A systematic review
(European Psychologist, 2017-11-29)Forgiveness is frequently investigated, and many methods of assessment have been used. However, discerning which methods of assessment to use for which purposes has generally not been based on systematic ... -
Decisional forgiveness across spanish and american samples: Translation, validation, and measurement invariance of the decision to forgive scale
(Current Psychology, 2021-08)More than twenty different models of how forgiveness occurs have been proposed within forgiveness literature. One idea highlighted in many of these models was that forgiveness entails, at some point, a ... -
The role of making a decision to forgive in the process of forgiveness: A longitudinal study
(Current Psychology, 2022)Forgiveness is a positive method of dealing with an offense that includes a decisional and an emotional phase. How these two types of forgiveness interact in the forgiveness process remains unclear. In ... -
Eficacia de las intervenciones dirigidas a cuidadores principales de personas dependientes mayores de 65 años. Una revisión sistemática
(Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología, 2018-05)Introducción: el cuidado de un anciano dependiente en nuestro entorno social es asumido por los miembros de su familia o cui- dadores principales (CP); ellos son los responsables de mantener la ... -
The Influence of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness on Attributions
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2019-06-25)Research on forgiveness suggests that forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping process important for clinical settings as it can promote both physical and mental health (Worthington et al., 2005; ... -
Primary intervention promoting quality of life in bereaved individuals: A pilot study
(Death studies, 2025-11-01)Bereavement is rarely addressed from a public health perspective, despite the documented potential adverse effects on health. The objective of this pilot study was to evaluate the impact of a brief, ... -
Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness
(PLOS one, 2015-05-06)To forgive and forget is a well-known idiom, which has rarely been looked at empirically. In the current experiment, we investigated differences between emotional and decisional forgiveness on forgetting. ... -
The role of forgiveness for aging and advanced illness: An integrative systematic review
(Journal of holistic nursing, 2025-06-30)Purpose and design of study: This is an integrative systematic review of the role of forgiveness to cope with death anxiety that is common to aging and advanced illness. The purpose is to facilitate ... -
Positive psychology and religion/spirituality across cultures in Europe, non-US North America, and South America
(2022-11-18)The purpose of this chapter is to synthesize and critique the research on positive psychology and psychology of religion/spirituality (R/S) that has been conducted in Europe, non-US North America (Canada ...