Job satisfaction can be described as “the condition of contentment with one’s work and environment, denoting a positive attitude” (Wood, 1973, p. 8). According to Lawler (1977), the extent to which people are satisfied with their jobs should be a societal concern. as work experiences have profound effects on both the individual and on society as a whole. Similarly, job satisfaction can be regar...

In this article an HIV and AIDS group work programme empowering adolescents to deal with the possible death of their parents/caregivers will be evaluated in a quantitative fashion. The data were obtained by means of the Child Functioning Inventory High School (CFI-HIGH) developed by Perspective Training College and the Generalized Contentment Scale (GCS) of Hudson (Bloom et al., 1999: 220). The...

Occupational stress has been the subject of numerous research studies conducted across globe due to its impact on our daily life. For instance, it can have a negative teachers’ psychological and normal functioning body at all levels as well their performance. It even adversely marriage social lives well. This study explored relationships between occupational marital contentment in COVID-19 era....

This paper presents a series of case studies to explore the understanding, acceptance and value of compassionate mind training (CMT) with psychotic voice hearers. We were interested in the degree to which such people are able to access and feel the positive emotions of 'warmth' and 'contentment' to become more self-compassionate. We also explored how CMT affected participants' hostile voices, t...

This study examined the factor structure of a scale based on the four-dimensional gender identity model (Egan and Perry, 2001) in 726 Chinese elementary school students. Exploratory factor analyses suggested a three-factor model, two of which corresponded to "Felt Pressure" and "Intergroup Bias" in the original model. The third factor "Gender Compatibility" appeared to be a combination of "Gend...

The study carried out an investigation on electronic payment system in Nigeria focusing on the implementation and the constraints antagonizing it with the aim to come up with solutions to the constraints so identified. The ostensible low level of contentment with e-payment system in Nigeria motivated this study. Banks, contractors and government agencies formed the sampling population with tota...

Danes are unrivalled in satisfaction with life. The University of Leicester recently published the World Map of Happiness (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/ hi/pdfs/28_07_06_happiness_map.pdf) with Denmark as number one. For more than 30 years this country with five million inhabitants has ranked first in Eurobarometer surveys (europa.eu.int/comm/ public_opinion/index_en.htm). More than two t...

The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a differential GPS navigation system being developed to support aircraft precision approach and landing with guaranteed accuracy, integrity, continuity and availability. While the system promises to support Category I operations, significant technical challenges are encountered in supporting Category II and III operations. The primary concern has bee...

The understanding of the complexities human well-being (HWB) within ecosystem service (ES) context is fundamental to development management plans sustain flow services (ESs) for HWB. However, research on HWB in still underrepresented Africa’s coast. Primary data were collected from 794 household heads six communities Ghana’s eastern coastal zone. A sequential logistics regression model was used...

the  main purpose of the present study­ is to compile pre- marriage  counseling content according to ethical and spiritual factors and skills predicting a successful marriage. the statistical population included all the couples  who referred to tabriz health centers in the year 2010, from among whom 40 couples were chosen by using systematic sampling. semi-structured interview was used to colle...