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Sakineh Rakhshanderou; Morteza Charkhabi; Yousef Sherizadeh; Parisa Hosseini Koukamari; Laura Seidel; Frederic Dutheil; Mohtasham Ghaffari – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: The dramatic increase in fast food consumption among students, particularly adolescents and children, over the past two decades reflects a significant shift in lifestyle, with nearly one-third of these young individuals consuming ready-made foods on a daily basis. Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effect of an intervention based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Food, Student Behavior
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Ghahremani, Leila; Kaveh, Mohammad Hossein; Tehrani, Hadi; Orooji, Arezoo; Jafari, Alireza – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2022
This study aimed to determine the predictive power of the theory of planned behaviour in predicting the intention and behaviour of positive thinking in school students. A cross-sectional study was performed on 367 high school male students in Iran. Data were gathered using a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability had been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Positive Attitudes, High School Students
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Ziaabadi, Fariba; Karimi, Mohammad N.; Hashemi, Mohammad R. – TESL-EJ, 2023
Despite English teachers' acknowledgement of the plurality of English and the emergence of different varieties of the language, the actual manifestations of this plurality and the associated principles do not seem to be equally embraced in their classroom approach. Against this background, this study investigated Iranian English teachers'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Rahimdel, T.; Morowatisharifabad, M. A.; Salehi-Abargouei, A.; Mirzaei, M.; Fallahzadeh, H. – Health Education Research, 2019
This study was conducted to evaluate an education program based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) for salt intake in individuals at risk of hypertension. This randomized controlled trial was conducted from February 2017 to December 2017 in Shahediyeh, Yazd Province, Iran. For this purpose, 140 people were selected and assigned to two groups…
Descriptors: Hypertension, At Risk Persons, Eating Habits, Health Behavior
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Yaghoubi Farani, Ahmad; Karimi, Saeid; Motaghed, Mahsa – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: This purpose of this paper, drawing on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), is to develop an integrated model of entrepreneurial career intentions incorporating the role of motivational factors along with entrepreneurial knowledge. Specifically, this study proposes the existence of a relationship between entrepreneurial knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Behavior Theories, Career Choice
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Peyman, N.; Oakley, D. – Health Education Research, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore factors that influence oral contraceptive (OC) use among women in Iran using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and concept of self-efficacy (SE). The study sample consisted of 360 married OC users, aged 18-49 years recruited at public health centers of Mashhad, 900 km east of Tehran. SE had the strongest…
Descriptors: Family Planning, Self Efficacy, Public Health, Foreign Countries
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Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Hassan – English Language Teaching, 2010
This paper serves as a platform to precisely substantiate the success of "Competitive Team-Based Learning" (CTBL) as an effective and rational educational approach. To that end, it brings to the fore part of the (didactic) theories and hypotheses which in one way or another delineate and confirm the mechanisms under which successful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning