BACKGROUND Self-assessment of resilience could prove valuable to military and other organizations whose personnel confront foreseen stressors. We evaluated the validity of self-assessed resilience among U.S. Army soldiers, including whether predeployment perceived resilience predicted postdeployment emotional disorder. METHODS Resilience was assessed via self-administered questionnaire among ...

Women are significantly less politically engaged than men at both the mass and elite levels. More recent scholarship has found that structural factors standard predictors of political behavior no longer sufficiently explain this persistent gap in engagement. In present study, I take a novel approach to exploring discrepancy women’s engagement participation. ask: Does self-objectification, inter...

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between self-objectification, internalized transphobia, and psychological distress in male-to-female (MtF) transgenders. It hypothesized that: 1) there would be a positive transgenders; 2) Self-objectification transphobia predict MtF A correlational research design used. sample comprising of 136 transgenders with an age range 19-55...

As adolescence can be a stressful developmental stage, the purpose of this study was to determine if a novel mindful self-compassion program would decrease stress, depressive symptoms, and anxiety and increase resilience, gratitude, and curiosity/exploration (positive risk-taking), and to ascertain if mindfulness and self-compassion co-varied with these outcomes over time. Forty-seven adolescen...

objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate on relationship between spiritual intelligence, resilience, and perceived stress. methods: the study sample consisted of 307 students of sistan and baluchistan university. the connor– davidson resilience scale (cd-risc), the spiritual intelligence self-report inventory (sisri) and the perceived stress scale (pss) are used as a research ins...

Does wearing makeup benefit women by changing how they perceive themselves, and are the perceptions that others make of wearers positive, or negative? In two pre-registered experiments, we investigated effects on women's self-perceived traits, others’ objectifying them. Experiment 1, 229 imagined one four scenarios (e.g., a romantic date). Half applied for scenario before rating their agency, h...