Small island developing states are often characterized as vulnerable owing to their unique geographies of smallness and remoteness, resource insecurity, more recently from the impacts climate change. These vulnerabilities manifested in significant imports, poor waste management, inability develop economies scale. In effect, sustaining small islands an era global environmental change is a task b...

We all experience a host of common life stressors such as the death of a family member, medical illness, and financial uncertainty. While most of us are resilient to such stressors, continuing to function normally, for a subset of individuals, experiencing these stressors increases the likelihood of developing treatment-resistant, chronic psychological problems, including depression and anxiety...

• We studied the association between over-protection and affective vulnerability (AV). 296 students were recruited tested individually. Over-protection, indifference abuse assessed. All forms of dysfunctional parenting positively associated with AV. Only maternal paternal independently Objective. High levels perceived parental are hypothesized to be related relational problems, psychological di...

This study examined the relationship of teachers' interpersonal cognitive distortions, life satisfaction, and psychological vulnerability on fear happiness. The group consists 738 teachers who work in center districts Hakkari province 2020-2021 academic year voluntarily participated research. Personal Information Form, Fear Happiness Scale, Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions Satisfaction with ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults in the Australian state of Victoria have a higher prevalence of psychological distress than their non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander counterparts. We sought to explain this inequality, focussing on the social determinants of health. We used population-based survey data from the 2008 Victorian Population Health Survey; a cross-sectional landlin...

BACKGROUND Little is known about whether the positive effect of breastfeeding on child health extends to adult psychological adjustment. We hypothesized that breastfed babies would have higher psychological well-being in adulthood in relation to the pathway of childhood psychosocial adjustment. METHODS We used the available cases with normal birthweight from the National Child Development Stu...

BACKGROUND Various studies have reported socioeconomic inequalities in mental health among urban residents. This study aimed at investigating whether neighborhood social cohesion influences the associations between socio-economic factors and psychological distress. METHODS Cross-sectional questionnaire study on a random sample of 18,173 residents aged 16 years and older from 211 neighborhoods...