Environmental ethics and attitudes may be an important source of heterogeneity when considering the welfare effects and equity implications of policy changes dealing with environment and natural resources. The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale is a set of 15 likert questions and is intended to indicate whether an individual holds pro-environmental or anti-environmental beliefs. This paper pro...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the interaction between individual and environmental determinants of physical activity, although this may be important information for the development of effective interventions. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether perceived neighborhood safety modifies associations between individual cognitions and sports participation. METHODS Cross-sectional da...

Stephen Kellert’s typology of attitudes and Dunlap and Van Liere’s New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale represent two different approaches to environmental attitudes. Both approaches were used to predict policy support for environmental protection among college students in Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. Results showed country and gender differences in the strength of...

background: using appropriate coping strategies has a positive influence on moderating mental pressures caused by infertility and the stress during treatment. using these strategies needs personal skills and they could be influenced by individual’s inner psychological and environmental factors. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the attitude toward infertility and copi...

the current study aimed to define some factors contributing to implicit attitude formation mainly in the social interaction context. an agent-based computer simulation of a society including autonomous agents and an attitude object was used to track the implicit attitude progress towards the object. the society could simulate the autonomic behaviors. we provided a complex adaptive system and ob...

background & aims of the study: disregarding the health and use of polluted equipment in barbers lead to microbial infection expansion, skin diseases and particularly hematic diseases including aids and hepatitis. hence, the aim of present study is determining the health condition of female barbers of kangavar city, iran, in order to improve the health level and public health. methods: in this ...