OBJECTIVE: To compare the comprehension of depressed and non-depressed male and
female Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in receptive skills, and to …

This study was designed to test the view that depression would have selective effects upon
effortful but not automatic aspects of reading. Relationships were determined between 59 …

Abstract Vincenzi (Journal of School Psychology, 25, 155–160, 1987) reported an
association between childhood depression and reading ability. An examination of the …

Hasher and Zacks (1979) have developed a framework for viewing cognitive processes as
either effortful (requiring attentional capacity) or automatic (requiring no attentional capacity) …

In the last decade, researchers and clinicians have come to agree that preadolescent
children can suffer from depressive disorders. In turn, depression seems to be relate to …

In this study 12 depressed outpatients were compared to 12 healthy controls with respect to
their performance on a number of cognitive tasks, including a recognition-memory task, and …

The prevalence of depression among language learners, specifically Arabic learners,
should receive proper attention from academics. Unfortunately, it would be easily …

The present study investigated the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and
reading comprehension ability of clinical psychology students. In addition, this research …

The present study was carried out to investigate the relationship between the emotional
intelligence, reading motivation, and anxiety with reading Comprehension. The participants …

The assumption that specific learning disabilities are not causally related to emotional
disturbances is crucial for the cognitive research approaches that endeavor to isolate …