background psychological capital with components of hope, self efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has been recently proposed to bring positive psychology to the workplace. objectives we investigated psychological capital states of employees of the tehran university of medical sciences (tums) headquarter offices in tehran, iran. materials and methods a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical...

background: researches mainly focus on patients who suffer from cancer. families and parents have been neglected in these researches although they experience levels of stress, depression and anxiety. this research aims at studying the effectiveness of hope therapy based on group therapy on hope and depression of mothers with children suffering from cancer in aliasghar children's hospital, tehra...

Optimism is generally accepted by psychiatrists, psychologists and other caring professionals as a feature of mental health. Interventions typically rely on cognitive-behavioural tools to encourage individuals to 'stop negative thought cycles' and to 'challenge unhelpful thoughts'. However, evidence suggests that most individuals have persistent biases of optimism and that excessive optimism is...

Optimism is a powerful technique for increasing concurrency. A program can gain concurrency by making an optimistic assumption about its future state, and verifying the assumption in parallel with computations based on the optimistic assumption. To date, use of optimism has been restricted to specialized systems due to the diiculty of writing optimistic programs. In this paper, we deene and jus...

psychological capital (psycap) construct is a core concept of positive psychology consisting of the positive psychological resources of self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience. previous studies confirmed link of psycap with employee attitude, behavior, workplace outcomes and job performance. in today's competitive environment, it is a challenging task for all organizations to enhance the ...

Background: Careers and the family are considered the most important aspects of adult life, which affect a couplechr('39')s mental health. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy on improving optimism and communication patterns among couples working at state offices of the Ramhormoz County. Materials and Methods: The research method was experi...