Actively caring refers to individuals caring enough about the health and safety of others to act accordingly. Actively caring behavior in an industrial context can take the form of continually looking for environmental hazards and unsafe work practices and implementing appropriate corrective actions when unsafe conditions or behaviors are observed. Individuals presumed most likely to actively c...

Increasingly, sports and fitness brands are using a variety of social media platforms. Instagram has come to the fore in the area of fitness, asserting itself as the de facto channel for users to catalogue their athletic activities, and offering inspirational training advice to followers. Considering this increasingly-popular ‘fitspiration’ trend, we see a significant impact upon young female u...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.07.012 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Swinburne Univer Higher Education, Lilydale, Victoria 3140, Australia. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.L. Skues). This study examined the relationship between three of the ‘‘Big Five’’ traits (neuroticism, extraversion, and openness), self-esteem, loneliness and n...

Though the existence of free will seems to be a background assumption in Western life, very little research has examined the belief, and the handful of studies that have done so suggest only a modest endorsement and unclear relationships to other variables. However, methodological flaws in the earlier studies likely produced an underestimation of the strength of the belief among the general pop...

This thesis investigates the importance of higher education for women of Babati, Tanzania. The research has been carried out by focusing three research questions; What does an education at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) mean for the female students on a personal level? What is the female students’ perception on the importance of women’s higher education for development? How can the femal...

British Journal of General Practice, April 2014 e243 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterised by inappropriate levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity: the core symptoms. It is the most common neurobehavioural childhood disorder affecting 5% of children and 2–4% of adults worldwide.1 The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)1 acknowledges ...

Despite common stereotypes about those who use different types of online dating, psychological research on online dating agency users’ characteristics is actually very limited, and no scientific study has yet examined the individual characteristics of TinderTM users. The current exploratory study aimed to investigate why individuals use these services, and how they differ in terms of sociabilit...

Background: In recent years, increasing numbers of adults and adolescents have opted to undergo tattoo and piercing procedures. Studies among adolescents with tattoo and piercing have usually explored the relationship between one factor and the decision to have tattoos and/or piercings. The aim of this study was to determine relationships between body cosmetic procedures and selfesteem, propens...

A great deal of controversy exists in current literature regarding the relationship between narcissism, selfesteem and conduct problems in children. On the one hand, many adult studies have demonstrated a link between low self-esteem and antisocial behaviors [13, 35, 42]. Similar links between low self-esteem and conduct problems have been demonstrated in children [2, 35, 39]. Consequently, int...

Self-compassion is associated with improved affect regulation, adaptive coping strategies and various measures of wellbeing. It has also been suggested as a protective factor against characteristics considered to maintain eating pathology. Specifically, cognitive theories of eating disorders suggest that dysfunctional assumptions and negative beliefs regarding shape, weight and eating lead to e...