With two studies, the authors sought to clarify how alcoholism relates to beliefs about drinking control and self-esteem by varying the stage of alcohol involvement. The stages were active abuser, commitment to change, early recovery, and late recovery. As hypothesized inStudy I, long-term recovering abstainers had greater drinking-related internal locus of control, self-efficacy about abstaini...

The objective of this descriptive-exploratory study was to identify the health beliefs of black individuals with hypertension regarding the barriers and benefits of diet for controlling the disease, including the sociodemographic factors associated with the health beliefs surrounding diet control. One hundred and six black adults with hypertension were interviewed using a specific instrument. T...

1Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait, Safat, Kuwait (Correspondence to H.E. Badr: [email protected]). Received: 18/09/03; accepted: 25/02/04 ABSTRACT A cross-sectional multistage stratified cluster survey of 1798 Kuwaiti male adults investigated the relationship between health locus of control (HLC) beliefs, health beliefs about sm...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between worry and problem-solving skills and beliefs (confidence and perceived control) in primary school children. METHOD Children (8-11 years) were screened using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children. High (N= 27) and low (N= 30) scorers completed measures of anxiety, problem-solving skills (generating alternative solutions to problems, planfu...

We examined memory control beliefs in relation to memory performance and beliefs in the context of goal setting. Control beliefs showed significant effects on performance and self-efficacy. Higher goals were set by high-control younger adults than by older adults and low-control younger adults. Individuals with a high sense of control performed higher and maintained performance over trials rega...

present study is aimed at evaluating the effect of rational emotive behavior therapy (rebt) on anxiety and irrational beliefs among infertile women. to assess the level of anxiety and irrational beliefs, 50 infertile women were selected randomly from mediwave ivf and fertility research hospital in mysore city and were administered cattle questionnaires for surveying anxiety and the shortened ge...

the present study examined the effect of grouped meta-cognitive therapy on meta-cognitive beliefs of patients' anxieties suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. this research is a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group in which two groups of experiment and control are used. the present study population includes all state universities, islamic azad uni...

Recent work has extended the idea of implicit self-theories to the realm of emotion to assess beliefs in the malleability of emotions. The current article expanded on prior measurement of emotion beliefs in a scale development project. Items were tested and revised over rounds of data collection with both students and nonstudent adult online participants. Exploratory and confirmatory factor ana...

The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Technological Factors in Predicting Teachers’ Beliefs about Knowledge Sharing M. Bohlool R. Hosseyngholizaadeh, Ph.D. M. Karami, Ph.D. To explore the role of personal, organizational, and technological factors in predicting teachers’ beliefs about knowledge sharing, a sample of 173 Rashtkhaaree teachers was randomly sele...