BACKGROUND Accurate measures of mood state are important for understanding and optimizing health and well-being in later life. A range of different mood assessment measures is available, reflecting the variety of ways in which mood has been conceptualized and the different purposes for which measures have been developed. METHODS We undertook a conceptual review of the literature relating to m...

Cognitive therapy is a treatment process that enables patients to correct false self-beliefs that can lead to negative moods and behaviors. The fundamental assumption is that a thought precedes a mood; therefore, learning to substitute healthy thoughts for negative thoughts will improve a person's mood, self-concept, behavior, and physical state. Studies have shown that cognitive therapy is an ...

This paper examines elements from Piaget’s and Scherer’s theories that are able to offer subsidies for the specification of the affective aspects involved in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The affective dimension is characterized by the moods manifested during interactions in virtual space by affective portion of psychological subject. To figure moods out is a way to personalize the pedag...

Self-report is seen as important in assessments of psychopathology but individuals with intellectual disability may have difficulty standard questionnaires. This paper reports on the administration and subsequent modifications to several established self-report measures mental health.Methods : The participants were 57 children aged 10 13 years. They completed Children’s Depression Inventory, Re...

The present randomized pilot intervention study examines the effects of a mindfulness-based self-leadership training (MBSLT) specifically developed for academic achievement situations. Both mindfulness and self-leadership have a strong self-regulatory focus and are helpful in terms of stress resilience and performance enhancements. Based on several theoretical points of contact and a specific i...

BACKGROUND Increasing literature has been focused on complicated grief (CG) and its distinctiveness from other potentially loss related mental disorders such as major depression (MD). In this regard, symptoms of separation distress seem to play a key role. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical features of CG to those of MD and of CG+MD, with particular attention to separation anxiet...

Article history: Received 9 July 2012 Received in revised form 4 February 2013 Accepted 10 February 2013 Available online 7 March 2013 Departing from the static perspective of leader charisma that prevails in the literature, we propose a dynamic perspective of charismatic leadership in which group perceptions of leader charisma influence and are influenced by group mood. Based on a longitudinal...

The present study replicates and extends Mealey and Theis's (1993) research on the way in which moods adaptively incline individuals toward different types of landscapes. Mealey and Theis hypothesized that positive moods encourage exploration, so they predicted that individuals reporting positive moods would prefer landscapes marked by Prospect (vast expanses and overviews). They hypothesized t...

BACKGROUND The aims of the present study are to investigate whether there are differences in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) between girls and boys in two different age groups, to study how much of children's variance in HRQoL can be explained by common psychosomatic health symptoms, and to examine whether the same set of psychosomatic symptoms can explain differences in HRQoL, both betw...