Contemporary models of chronic pain hypothesize that psychological variables influence both pain and its impact [3,10]. Research in this area has focused mostly on the psychological variables of beliefs and coping. Beliefs refer to the thoughts that people have about pain. Thoughts such as the perceived controllability of pain, perceptions of oneself as disabled, and the belief that pain signal...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were 1) to compare the contribution of demographic-behavioral variables and psychological variables in explaining the variance of depression, 2) identify the most important predictors of depression for Korean female adolescents. METHOD The participants were 840 female adolescents. Data was collected through self-report questionnaires, which were constructed ...

OBJECTIVE To quantitatively review and critique evidence from prospective cohort studies (greater than 1 year follow-up) assessing associations between psychological factors (eg, anxiety, anger, depression) and hypertension development. METHODS Keyword searches through the MEDLINE and Psychlit (1970 to present) databases produced in excess of 500 studies, of which only 10 met criteria as a pr...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to drawing a regression model of organizational climate of central libraries of Iran's universities. METHODS This study is an applied research. The statistical population of this study consisted of 96 employees of the central libraries of Iran's public universities selected among the 117 universities affiliated to the Ministry of Health by Stratified S...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relative influence of demographic, injury and psychological characteristics on the labor force status of people living with spinal cord injury. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SUBJECTS 459 persons who had experienced a traumatic spinal cord injury. All participants were patients of 1 of 2 specialist spinal cord injury services located in south-eastern Australia. ...

the increase in the number of university graduates, especially at ma level, in the recent years on one hand and the disproportionate growth of employment on the other hand, has made graduates unemployment one of the major challenges of the country. most students prefer to be employed, while employment capacity in society and increase in the number of students do not match closely. entrepreneurs...

introduction: the lack of mental health interferes with one's individual achievement and ability for undertaking the responsibilities of everyday life. researches show that psychological well-being and parenting styles have an important role in ones' increasing general health. the current study examined the relationship between psychological well-being and parenting styles with studen...

Deviant behaviour and victimization at school have been consistently related to poor psychological adjustment in adolescents. This research explores the mediating role that parents and teachers have in adolescent psychological distress in 973 Spanish students aged 11-16 years old. Structural equation analyses results showed that adolescent deviant behaviour and victimization were positively rel...