objective: having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans, and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have become important over the years. personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. thus, the current study was conducted to assess the reliability and validity of the ‘‘personal well-being index- cognitive disability’’ on mentally retarded ...

Many illnesses can be prevented or limited by altering personal behavior, and public health planners have turned to psychology for guidance in fostering self-protective activity. A social theory of personal action provides an integrative framework for applying psychology to public health, disclosing gaps in our current understanding of self-regulation, and generating guidelines for improving he...

This study addressed the relationship between sense of personal identity and thinking dispositions such as need for cognition, reflection, and integrative self-knowledge as well as modes of coping with self-related discrepancies through either excessive assimilation or accommodation. Participants were 544 young adults. The correlation and path analyses revealed, as expected, that need for cogni...

There is a growing stream of research into organizational microblogging in recent years. Whilst the extant literature has mainly focused on technology-related factors to examine init ia l microblogging use, few studies have investigated user needs and gratifications and even less on the post initial adoption stage. Hence, the purpose of this research is to explore the factors that affect employ...

The article analyzes the formation of readiness undergraduates higher agricultural education for future professional and pedagogical activities. Based on analysis, it was found that result training in universities is formed as an integrative personal education, which characterized by stable orientation provides a set knowledge, skills, abilities necessary successful activities—institutions agra...

the aim of this study was to empirically investigate the effect of death-awareness on state mindfulness and state integrative self-knowledge. for existentialists, confrontation with the fact of one’s personal death and tolerance of its inevitable anxiety is the most fundamental conflict of human beings. if such confrontation occurs, it leads to enhancement of one’s self-awareness. empirical tes...

INTRODUCTION Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience social difficulties affecting their personal and academic functioning. AIM To review the research addressing the influence of cognitive/affective abilities involved in their social adaptation, from the perspective of an integrative model that includes executive functioning, theory of mind and pragmatic langu...