The Balooch tribe constitutes about 4 percent of population in Golestan Province so they are often farmer and live in villages as a minority. The most important purpose in these researches to study the attitude of Balooch peoples toward having the social justice in comparison with other tribes and groups that constitute the population of Golestan Province that includes Turkmens, Sistani and Far...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to measure knowledge and attitude about aging and life satisfaction among older Korean adults and to examine the influence of attitude and knowledge about aging on these adults' life satisfaction. METHODS A cross-sectional and correlational design was used. A total of 405 older adults were surveyed using a written questionnaire at six elderly welfare cent...

A visit at the age of nine with his parents to Shanxi Science and Technology Museum in hometown Taiyuan was all it took for Long Zhao fall love engineering. recalled that he so fascinated by plasma globe started dreaming owning a superpower ability control electricity. He believes this early experience planted seeds pursuing an engineering career head. Although not very good student during elem...

There is an error in the third sentence of the fourth paragraph in “The Nature of Personality Traits and Political Attitudes” section of the Introduction. The correct sentence is: For the FFM and Eysenck’s personality traits, correlations between Openness and social attitudes, Neuroticism and economic attitudes, Conscientiousness and social attitudes, the P-Scale and military/defense attitudes,...

This study examined the validity of the perfectionism and need for approval scales of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS; Weissman & Beck, 1978) by locating these measures within a comprehensive framework of personality, provided by the revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992), in a clinical sample (N 1⁄4 132). The results indicated that: (1) DAS perfectionism refle...

1 This paper contends that attitude, emotion, and personality are very diierent concepts that must be treated diierently by an artiicial agent. It discusses the importance both of 1) recognizing the attitude of a conversational partner toward a communicated proposition and 2) conveying one's own attitude toward diierent propositions, in order to enable appropriate responses to be constructed. T...

This study examines to what extent personality and existential constructs predict the frequency of reminiscence, in general, and its various functions, in particular. Eighty-nine older adults completed the NEO-Five Factor Inventory, the Life Attitude Profile--Revised, and the Reminiscence Functions Scale. Neuroticism predicted total reminiscence frequency, as well as reminiscence for self-under...

Social connectedness derived from Facebook is associated with positive outcomes such as better psychological health wellbeing. Yet to date, little is known about the construct of Facebook social connectedness. The aim of this study was to draw on existing studies of Facebook use to investigate what might predict social connectedness stemming from Facebook use. Participants (N = 326, age range 1...