BACKGROUND Over the past few decades, concern about suicide by college students has been on the rise worldwide, in general and in China particularly. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of social and psychological factors on the suicidal tendencies of Chinese medical students. FINDINGS Of the 540 students surveyed, 48 had a suicidal tendency to some extent. The high...

The data presented in this article are related to the article entitled "Assessing Resilience in Emerging Adulthood: The Resilience Scale (RS), Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), and Scale of Protective Factors (SPF)" (Madewell and Ponce-Garcia, 2016) [1]. The data were collected from a sample of 451 college students from three universities located in the Southwestern region of the Unit...

This paper studies the effects of psychological, individual, product strategy, and situational factors on the impulse purchase behavior of customers in all Refah stores located in Tehran. The paper uses Betty and Ferrell Model to set forward and to test 4 hypothesis. All four hypothesis were confirmed. The results indicated that the selected factors had impact on the impulse behavior of the con...

a review of findings shows that persian gardens have attracted a wide area of interests between psychologists and environment designers. the main reasons behind the attraction of persian gardens are natural content and particular landscape configuration. to study these features, overall organization examination is employed according to psychological pattern. one of the impressive psychological ...

PURPOSE This study examined the unique contribution of key existential factors to the prediction of psychological well-being of older adults following spousal loss. DESIGN AND METHOD A number of measures to assess psychological well-being, sociodemographic standing, social resources, and religious and spiritual resources were administered to a volunteer sample of widows and widowers to test t...

objective: psychological hardiness is a protective personality structure against life stresses that plays a major role in resisting stressful events. thus, the present research aimed to predict the psychological hardiness based on mental health and emotional intelligence in students. methods: the method applied in the research was a descriptive-correlation type. a total of 348 students of payam...