Patient anxiety and modern elective surgery: a literature review [PDF]
Medical advances have led to a considerable rise in the level of elective surgery undertaken as day-case surgery and with minimal hospital stay. However, amid such advances, preoperative psychological care has remained relatively static.
Mitchell, MJ
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Barriers and facilitators to GP-patient communication about emotional concerns in UK primary care: a systematic review. [PDF]
Background In the UK, general practitioners (GPs) are the most commonly used providers of care for emotional concerns. Objective To update and synthesize literature on barriers and facilitators to GP–patient communication about emotional concerns in
Byng, R. +4 more
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ANXIETY FACTORS AFFECTING EFL STUDENTS' LISTENING COMPREHENSION
The mixed-method study sheds light on the factors influencing 84 non-English major sophomores’ listening anxieties in a public university in Vietnam. The questionnaire adapted from Kim (2000) and semi-structured interviews were employed to discover students’ anxiety levels related to teacher factors, student factors, and materials during their ...
Thu Le My, Giang Do
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Phonetics Learning Anxiety – Results of a Preliminary Study [PDF]
The Phonetics Learning Anxiety Scale, a 44-item questionnaire based on a 6-point Likert scale, designed for the purpose of the research sheds light on the nature of this peculiar type of apprehension experienced by advanced FL learners in a specific ...
Argamon +92 more
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The Effect of Listening Attitude and Listening Anxiety on Listening Comprehension: A Regression Model [PDF]
Since listening is a multi-dimensional skill that involves many factors, it is very difficult to identify variables that affect the process. In the current study, it is aimed to determine whether anxiety and attitude are thought to be among the factors affecting listening affect listening comprehension process.
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ANXIETY ON STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN MALANG
This study aims at knowing the level of anxiety and factors related to listening anxiety encountered by the students of EFL learners in Malang. This study employs mixed research method, involving forty-eight participants.
Santi Prastiyowati
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Predicting language learners' grades in the L1, L2, L3 and L4: the effect of some psychological and sociocognitive variables [PDF]
This study of 89 Flemish high-school students' grades for L1 (Dutch), L2 (French), L3 (English) and L4 (German) investigates the effects of three higher-level personality dimensions (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), one lower-level personality ...
Argyle M. +36 more
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Listening Text Type as a Variable Affecting Listening Comprehension Anxiety
Chaque apprenant de langue étrangère se sent inadéquat, inefficace ou impuissant à une certaine période du processus d'apprentissage de la langue.Pour les principales raisons de ces sentiments, l'anxiété a été prononcée plus fréquemment que les autres variables affectives de la littérature.La principale préoccupation de cette recherche était d'étudier ...
Mehmet Kılıç, Berrin Uçkun
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Listening to Birds in the Anthropocene : The Anxious Semiotics of Sound in a Human-Dominated World [PDF]
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Funding for much of the research on which this article is based was provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK.
Whitehouse, Andrew
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Effectiveness of a Multimodal Mindfulness Program for Student Health Care Professionals: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Background: The effectiveness of a multimodal mindfulness program incorporating traditional and nontraditional forms of active and nonactive meditation practices with a sample of occupational and physical therapy students was assessed in this study ...
Gutman, Sharon A. +3 more
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