This study aims to determine the relationship between psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, and mental health symptoms. Female college students (N = 499) completed anonymous online surveys to report experiences of abuse, as well as symptoms of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and physical injuries. Five groups of participants were found: no abuse; psychological abuse; phys...

background: self-talk can be described as what people say to themselves either obviously or non-obviously. self-talk has been known as someone talks inside or quietly. as a matter of fact, self-talk is self-communication which can occur in several situations. objective: together the athlete’s perceptions of the self-talk intervention and its relationship to their performance to obtain informati...

safety climate received substantial attention due to its potential for explaining variation in safety-related outcomes. aim of present study was to determine degree of safety climate related to incidents reporting rate and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 189 workers. the survey included demographic factors, incidents reportin...

The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of symptoms of psychological distress experienced by African Americans upon self-enrollment in HIV-related mental health care and to compare the symptoms in this sample to the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) normative sample, the instrument used in this study to assess symptoms of psychological distress. Data were collected from 575 African ...

background : the present study aimed to determine the relationship between mental disorders and burnout among employees of shiraz university of medical science, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 300 employees were selected as the study sample using random sampling method. symptoms of mental disorder, predictor variables, and burnout were the criterion variables of this study. data w...

The current study investigated whether mental health practitioners are influenced by the narrative fallacy when assessing the psychological injuries of trauma victims. The narrative fallacy is associated with our tendency to establish logical links between different facts. In psychodiagnostic assessments, this tendency may result in overdiagnosis of mental disorders when psychological symptoms ...

torture entails the deliberate infliction of severe physical and mental pain and suffering through cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment and punishment to silence individuals and oppositions to the ruling authorities. such victims experience mental death, difficulties in coping, memory and concentration impairment, loss of core beliefs, feelings of shame and guilt, mental defeat, and alienatio...