background: all humans are searching ways to promote mental health. mental health is vital for having a healthy life. some believe that mental health means lack of mental disorders. positive psychology emphasizes on issues such as hope, wisdom, creativity, spirituality, thinking about future and having purpose in life instead of psychopathology aspects. the purpose of this study was to investig...

background regarding the increase in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, efficient factors such as happiness seems vital in reducing hospitalization of cardiovascular patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between stress coping styles, negative automatic thoughts, life quality and happiness in hospitalized cardiovascular patients in ahvaz, iran. material and m...

The concept of life-style is becoming a major differentiating trait between population groups substituting for economic and social classes. This paper describes the utilization of the concept of life-style in the context of travel demand models. life-style is defined as a pattern of behavior under constrained resources which conforms to the orientations an individual has toward three major 'lif...

Article type: Original article Background & aim: One of the main strategies for keeping health is having healthy life style. Due to important role of adolescent health in community health promotion, this study aimed to determine health promoting life style in adolescent girls of high schools and its associated factors in Mashhad, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 810 gi...

OBJECTIVES Research on unipolar depression has found that life events that are congruent with an individual's personality style increase vulnerability to depression (event congruency hypothesis). We tested whether the interaction of personality style and congruent life events predicted prospective increases in depressive and hypomanic symptoms among bipolar spectrum individuals over a 4-month f...