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...

Money is the stuff of life; it is the medium of exchange that we use to buy food, clothes, warmth in the winter, cool in the summer, and the fuel that moves us around the planet. Of course money makes the world go ‘round, but does it, Sharp and his colleagues (2008) want to know, make bioethics go ‘round? We all agree that there are things money cannot buy – happiness, love, contentment – but a...

For almost three decades researchers have sought to quantify the benefits of home and community care for the elderly, invariably assuming that such care would be an economical substitute for institutionalization. Twenty-seven studies that met rigorous criteria of design, size, and subject were analyzed and the results were synthesized to address the effects on institutional utilization and expe...

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...

This paper proposes how the relationship that exists between different characters in his novels is experimented diverse conditions and are tested tried to discover their unique paths of assimilation with loved ones completion circle. Despite spatial differences, each character connected a string bond which portrays ‘similarity’ difference, yet humanity need understanding. The physical space emo...