The Effect of Play on Children's Social Skills (Case Study: Kindergarten Children in Mazandaran Province)

This study aimed to investigate the effect of play type, playtime and type of toy on children's mental development, social skills and intelligence. The kindergarten of Mazandaran province in 2012 took place. The study's statistical population included 630 kindergarten children in Mazandaran province in 2012-13. Using the Jesse and Morgan table and the simple random sampling method, 240 was considered the sample size. The data collection method was based on a questionnaire and checklist. Reliability of questionnaires using Cronbach's alpha method for Gresham and Elliott standard questionnaire (1990, 0/83), and for standard questionnaire Intelligence Mazandaran - Stanford - Binet (2009) was obtained 0/91. Also, content and structure validity was used to test the validity of the questionnaire. In content validity, the questionnaires were approved by relevant experts. Analysis of information obtained from implementing questionnaires via SPSS software in two descriptive sections mean, variance, standard deviation, frequency distribution tables and graphs and inferential test.

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Evaluation of the Relationship between Personality and Conservatism of Investors in the Stock Exchange (Case Study: Insurance Companies)

Propósitos y Representaciones ◽

10.20511/pyr2021.v9nspe3.1111 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (SPE3) ◽

Author(s):

Mahsa Mohseni

Keyword(s):

Significant Relationship ◽

Stock Exchange ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Insurance Companies ◽

Statistical Population ◽

Pearson Correlation Test ◽

Correlational Method ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this research to "investigate the relationship between personality and conservatism of investors of insurance companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange." The present study was applied research in terms of purpose, which has employed a descriptive and correlational method. The statistical population of this research included all people who buy and sell shares of insurance companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. According to Cochran's formula, the sample size was determined as much as 384 people collected by a simple random sampling method. The research instruments were the Conservative Questionnaire based on the Gribel and Leighton (1999) and McCrae and Costa (1985) five-factor personality questionnaire. The questionnaire’s validity was confirmed by 20 experts, and the reliability of all three questionnaires was acceptable for all three questionnaires due to Cronbach's alpha above 0.79. The data analysis was conducted using the Pearson correlation test and regression analysis. The results indicated a significant relationship between the investors’ personality and their conservatism in the Tehran Stock Exchange. There was also a significant relationship between all personality components except for extraversion with the investor’s conservatism in the Tehran Stock Exchange.

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Study on Barriers to Knowledge Management Implementation in Iranian Companies; Case Study: PDSCO (Projects Development and Solution Company)

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management ◽

10.1142/s0219649217500137 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (02) ◽

pp. 1750013

Author(s):

Namdar Rabiee

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Data Collection ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Knowledge Application ◽

Statistical Population ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Analyse Data ◽

Statistical Sample ◽

Descriptive Survey

This study aims at identifying the barriers to knowledge management implementation in Iranian consulting companies including PDSCO in 2015. Research method is applied in terms of objective, and descriptive-survey research in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of research consists of all staff in PDSCO and its branches. The statistical sample of research includes 200 subjects who are selected by simple random sampling. Data collection tool consists of a researcher-made 27-item questionnaire based on a five-point Likert scale. The reliability of this questionnaire is equal to 0.87 based on Cronbach’s alpha. Descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS software are used to analyse data, and thus the exploratory factor analysis is utilized to identify factors, and Friedman test is used for ranking them. The main results of research show that components including the empowerment, encouragement and support, knowledge application, knowledge sharing, salary and benefits, creativity, trust, and technological and knowledge-based factors respectively play main roles in knowledge management implementation.

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Investigating the Effect of Advertising on Emotional Reactions of Customers (Case Study: Branches of Parsian Bank in Tehran)

International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology ◽

10.14741/ijcet/v.8.4.26 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (04) ◽

Author(s):

Hojjat Soheyli Rad

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Emotional Reactions ◽

Statistical Population ◽

Science And Art ◽

Industrial Age ◽

Brand Promotion ◽

Commercial Advertising ◽

Post Industrial

At the current word and in the industrial and even post-industrial age, advertising is a need. Advertising mixed of science and art can be called also as miracle industry and an industry, which can recover the industry and can also destroy industry, if it is used in wrong way. Commercial advertising, with use of modern media that are being more variable and effective over the time with wonderful speed, is not a simple marketing or notification to link consumers and suppliers anymore and is in fact a reality that can leave deep and fundamental effects on domains of human social life and on human. Therefore, the present study has investigated the effect of advertising on emotional reactions of customers in branches of Parsian Bank in Tehran. Statistical population in this study consists of customers of all branches of Parsian Bank in Tehran. Using Morgan table, 146 people were selected as sample using simple random sampling method. Data analysis was done using SPSS22 and Lisrel8.8 software. The results of the study showed that there is significant correlation between advertising and emotional reactions of customers. Moreover, the results showed that there is significant correlation between brand promotion in advertising, related news in advertising, and empathy in advertising, familiarity with advertising, confusion in advertising, and entertainment in advertising with customer emotional reactions. Moreover, there is significant correlation between enjoyable emotional reactions of customers to advertising and advantage-based value and hedonic value.

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Educational method to investigarte the Relationship between Organizational Climate and Deviant Behaviors with the Mediation of Job Alienation Variable (Case Study: National Iranian Copper Industries Company)

Revista Tempos e Espaços em Educação ◽

10.20952/revtee.v13i32.13179 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (32) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Amin Amin Farahbakhsh ◽

Sanjar Salajeghe ◽

Mohammad Ziaaddini

Keyword(s):

Organizational Climate ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Field Method ◽

Educational Method ◽

Statistical Population ◽

Deviant Behaviors ◽

The Relationship

Regarding the size and dispersion of the complex of copper factories in Iran and the high annual costs of preventing employees' strikes and also reducing deviant behaviors, and the existence of appropriate organizational climate, the aim of the present article is to find an educational method to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and deviant behaviors with the mediation of job alienation variable. This research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of nature, it is descriptive-correlation and it was conducted in field method. The statistical population of the research was the employees of the National Iranian Copper Industries Company (1010 people) whom are tried to educate this method. The sample size was calculated using the Cochran formula and 278 individuals were selected by simple random sampling. For data collection, the questionnaire of the organizational climate of Sasman and (Dalal, 2005), the adapted questionnaire of deviant behaviors of (Yoon Goo et al, 2013), and the questionnaire of job alienation of (Rahimi et al, 2016) were used. The reliability of the questionnaires in this research was respectively calculated as 0.851, 0.724, and 0.757. For data analysis, the Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression and, path analysis tests were used. The results indicated a positive and significant relationship between organizational climate and deviant behaviors, a negative and significant relationship between job alienation and deviant behaviors, and also explaining about 45% of deviant behaviors by organizational climate variables. It can be said that managers' attention to increase positive organizational climate and to decrease employees' job alienation can lead to further reduction of employees' deviant behaviors.

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