needed them. Marital problems, isolation or estrangement from the extended family, poor communication, and underlying personality disorder all increased a couple's difficulties. It is part of human nature to be able to cope with death and bereavement. When coping fails we should not turn away or offer only symptomatic treatment. Rather we should look for a cause, and help the couple to overcome...

background:   happiness is a concept, which due to its role in mental health, has been taken account by the researchers recently. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits, emotional intelligence and feeling happiness among students of tabriz university. methods: this study was a descriptive and analytical one. the statistical population of ...

Although personality characteristics figure prominently in what people want in a mate, little is known about precisely which personality characteristics are most important, whether men and women differ in their personality preferences, whether individual women or men differ in what they want, and whether individuals actually get what they want. To explore these issues, two parallel studies were...

Five questionnaires measuring altruistic and aggressive tendencies were completed by 573 adult twin pairs of both sexes from the University of London Institute of Psychiatry Volunteer Twin Register. The questionnaires measured altruism, empathy, nurturance, aggressiveness, and assertiveness. The intraclass correlations for the five scales, respectively, were .53, .54, .49, .40, and .52 for 296 ...

Throughout history, men have tended to be more violent than women. Evolutionary theories suggest that this sex difference derives in part from their historically greater need to compete with other men over access to potential mates. In the current research, men and women (Experiment 1) or men only (Experiments 2 and 3) underwent a mating motive prime or control prime, and then performed a task ...