The athlete's psychological profile is one of the most studied areas in sport psychology, but there is no consensus in this area. The purpose of this study was to elaborate and validate a scale to measure and classify athletes into a Idiocentric-Alocentric profile. The method was split in two phases: a) Items elaboration and theoretical model and b) Validation. Qualitative analyses were perform...

Values are viewed as partly based on needs, but little research has been devoted to testing this relationship. The need to attain or avoid cognitive closure may be an important cognitive-motivational factor underlying the endorsement and pursuit of particular values. The present research provided an empirical test of the relations between individual differences in the need for cognitive closure...

Aesthetic hedonism is the view that to be aesthetically good please. For most aesthetic hedonists, normativity hedonic normativity. This paper argues Kant’s third Critique contains resources for a nonhedonic account of as sourced in autonomy self-legislation. A case made also because it ties his aesthetics into key theme larger philosophy.

The purpose of this study is to find out the influence learning motivation and hedonism lifestyle on student achievement. population a Ibn Sina Batam. in was 554 students. sample calculated using slovin formula, so used as many 92 respondents. results are has significant effect achievement, simultaneously have R square score 53.1% means that can affect achievement by while remaining 46.9% influ...

Background and Aim of Study: Psychological transformation games that have great potential for solving a wide range problems related to clients’ mental health are becoming increasingly popular among psychologists psychotherapists. These techniques should be not only interesting attractive clients but also effective as form psychological practice. The aim the study: investigate impact game “My Da...

Every year on April 20th, University of Colorado students gather in Farrand Field for an act of civil disobedience and hedonism: the mass consumption of marijuana. In 2006, the University of Colorado Police Department prepared for this event by placing cameras around the field and posting signs notifying visitors that all activity there would be photographed and videotaped. Confident in their n...

Despite the profusion of social cognitive models for the prediction of sexual behaviour, we have only limited knowledge as to the role of individual values in predicting risky sexual activity. This study assessed the relationship between a recently developed value structure and sexual behaviour in the context of rising HIV infection in central and eastern Europe. Five hundred and three responde...

With the growth in elective aesthetic plastic surgery in recent years researchers are becoming increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of the procedure. The aim of this research in Cyprus was to describe the value systems and the locus of control of employees who have undergone aesthetic plastic surgery. A questionnaire comprising the Schwartz human value scale, the Rotter scale fo...