World Health Organization (WHO) defines health not only as “the absence of disease and infirmity; but as a complete well-being on physical, mental and social aspects”. Mental health studies have approached mental health as the absence of psychiatric diseases such as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Nowadays, this approach became insufficient and mental health was attempted to be explaine...

employee's happiness is related to engagement, growth of task security, job and family consent that can be resulted from characteristic and environmental factors. the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between personality characteristics with happiness and job satisfaction among employees of vali-e-asr university of rafsanjan. therefore 150 employees were selected rando...

background: several studies are available on the lifestyle, psychological and mental health of the elderly adults. this study aimed to compare the spiritual well-being and happiness in the elderly who lived in sanitariums with those lived in the community. methods: a comparative study was conducted on 384 elderly adults. a census sampling was used in sanitariums and a convenience sampling was p...

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Common pharmacological treatments of mood disorders aim to modulate serotonergic neurotransmission and enhance serotonin levels in the brain. Brain serotonin levels are dependent on the availability of its food-derived precursor essential amino acid tryptophan (Trp). We tested the hypothesis that delivery of Trp via food may serve as an alternative treatment, and examined the effects of a Trp-r...

A “new wave” within psychotherapy has introduced the concept of acceptance into people’s emotional repertoires. Accepting unpleasant emotional states has been demonstrated as an important pathway towards reducing secondary disturbances and improving emotional and psychological functioning. What is often overlooked, however, is whether this move towards acceptance is reinforced within the social...

background: treatment and illness management depends mostly on patient's performance in diseases and disorders such as diabetes. therefore, self-care has an important role in the health of these patients; they can affect their own welfare, functional capabilities, and illness processes by achieving self-care skills. today, self-care depends on individual, psychological and social factors, recog...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of two perspectives of well-being, hedonism and eudaimonism, on job attitudes and extra-role behaviors. Theoretically, hedonism equates well-being with the experience of pleasure, whereas eudaimonism is the experience of personal growth, purpose and social significance. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 528 admin...

In this study, we investigated the labeling of facial expressions in French-speaking children. The participants were 137 French-speaking children, between the ages of 5 and 11 years, recruited from three elementary schools in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The facial expressions included expressions of happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, anger, and disgust. Participants were shown one facial expressi...