background: nowadays, infertility problems have become a social concern, and are associated with multiple psychological and social problems. also, it affects the interpersonal communication between the individual, familial, and social characteristics. since women are exposed to stressors of physical, mental, social factors, and treatment of infertility, providing a psychometric screening tool i...

Referential qualities are qualities of an entity taken with reference to another entity. For example the vulnerability of a coast to sea level rise. In contrast to most non-relational qualities which only depend on their host, referential qualities require a referent additional to their host, i.e. a quality Q of an entity X taken with reference to another entity R. These qualities occur frequen...

The concepts vulnerability, resilience and community are widely used and abused in the literature on natural hazards and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use. In particular, vulnerability must be understood as a set of socioeconomic conditions that are identifiable in relation to particular hazard risks, and therefore perform a predictive role that can ...

Agricultural activities are by nature prone to risks and uncertainties of various nature, both biophysical, abiotic, climatic, environmental, biotic (pests, diseases) and economic. Many of these risks have a climatic component and most of them will be affected by climate change, either in intensity, scope or frequency. The aim of this paper is not to review the increasing literature on risks, o...

Construction of a highway and artisanal gold mining have contributed to population and land use changes within the department of Madre de Dios, Peru. Such changes are expected to alter malaria rates due to impacts on vector habitat and human exposure. Vulnerability, as defined by the possibility of bereavement of a physical good or abstract state, is useful for understanding which communities a...

background: resilience is a quality that affects an individual’s ability to cope with tension. the present study was conducted to determine resilience and its contributing factors in high-risk adolescents living in residential care facilities affiliated to tehran welfare organization in order to help develop effective preventive measures for them. methods: the present descriptive study was cond...

Responses to climate change may be viewed as requiring primarily ‘‘Resilience’’ or ‘‘Adaptation.’’ We examine how those two terms affect lay responses to the risks of coastal flooding and sea level rise. We use two tasks requiring substantial participant involvement, one providing minimal information and one substantial information. In Study 1, participants spent ten minutes writing an essay ab...

Background: Infertility is global problem that leads to psychological complications. Studies show that the psychological damage caused by infertility is far greater in women that in men. Infertility reduces psychological well-being and causes infertility stress in infertile women. The objective of the present research was to determine the effectiveness of a positive thinking based poetry therap...

The growing recognition and occurrence of traumatic exposure in the general population has given increased salience to the need to understand the concept of resilience. More than just the "flip side" of a risk factor, the notion of resilience encompasses psychological and biological characteristics, intrinsic to an individual, that might be modifiable and that confer protection against the deve...