The phenomenology of mania has not been empirically studied adequately. Various studies have revealed 2. 4 & 5 factors as the core features defining the manic state. Differences in the Bipolar disorders have been reported across culture in the past further complicating the issue.This study was carried out to study the core features of the manic state and compare it with similar studies across c...

The use of the Internet has been increasing dramatically over the decade in Malaysia. Excessive usage of the Internet has lead to a phenomenon called Internet addiction. There is a need for a reliable, valid, and simple-to-use scale to measure Internet addiction in the Malaysian population for clinical practice and research purposes. The aim of this study was to validate the Malay version of th...

This study was conducted to evaluate some development factors in Southern Nigeria order ascertain common that explained the interrelationships among them and identify best cities for recommendation. A total sample of 250 from different states three geopolitical zones used this 11 were considered. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) (> 0.5) computed test sampling adequacy; Bartlett’s Test Sphericity (Si...

Background: Coping is a multifactorial and individual process related to responding stressful situations, such as being caregiver of relative with health conditions. Spiritual/religious coping an important internal resource used by individuals enduring situations. The 14-item Brief RCOPE widely instrument but not available in European Portuguese. Objective: To translate, adapt validate the Port...

OBJECTIVE to validate an instrument to measure self-confidence of nursing care in urinary retention. METHODS methodological research study, carried out after ethical approval. A Likert-like scale of 32 items related to nursing care in urinary retention was applied to students of the graduate nursing course. For instrument validation, analysis of the sample adequacy and main components, Varima...

The Grief Experience Questionnaire (GEQ; T.W. Barrett & T.B. Scott, 1989) is a self-report measure of grief responses, including some that have been associated with grief after a suicide (e.g., feelings of rejection, responsibility, shame, stigmatization, etc.). In this study, a sample of 350 university students who had experienced the death of a significant other completed the GEQ. A princip...

OBJECTIVE To present the process of transcultural adaptation of the Richmond Compulsive Buying Scale to Brazilian Portuguese. METHODS For the semantic adaptation step, the scale was translated to Portuguese and then back-translated to English by two professional translators and one psychologist, without any communication between them. The scale was then applied to 20 participants from the gen...

The equiprobable go/no-go task lacks the dominant go imperative found in the usual go/no-go task, and hence we previously regarded it as involving little inhibition. However, children have relative difficulty with this task, and demonstrate large frontal no-go N2s. We investigated whether this child N2 plays an inhibitory role, using performance measures to illuminate the link between N2 and in...

A study was conducted to determine the interdependence among conformation traits of 178 West African Dwarf sheep and predict body weight from their independent scores using principal components analysis. Body nine morphostructural traits: height at withers, length, heart girth, rump height, hip width, chest depth, fore canon bone tail ear length were measured. Phenotypic correlation coefficient...