abstract background: administration of quality care in the aged people requires having a positive attitude toward them. numerous factors including nurses’ personality characteristics may play a role in their attitude toward the aged people. therefore, the present study investigated the association between nurses’ personality characteristics and their attitude toward the aged people. materials a...

the aim of the current study is to investigate the role of organizational anomie concerning the existing relationship between university faculty member’s attitude towards oneself, managers, co-workers and students with organizational citizenship behaviors. population of the study includes isfahan university faculty members from which 387 members (160 female and 227 male) were chosen randomly. r...

in this paper, the factors affecting the attitude of youth toward immigration have been examined, using a survey method and questionnaire. the sample under study consisted of 892 young people from shiraz. the theoretical framework of the research was based on the theories of giddens, bayen, izen, and lee’s theory of immigration and the experimental method of research was designed based on their...

School based sexuality education remains a hotly debated topic in the United States. Two key areas of this debate focus on teacher preparation to instruct sexuality education and teachers’ attitudes and comfort with the subject matter. This article describes the development and psychometric testing of the Teachers’ Attitude and Comfort Scale. This simple-to-use instrument has acceptable constru...

within the country , there is evidence of the prevalence of alcohol consumption among young people and students. the major purpose of the present study was to investigate social science faculty of tehran university students’ attitude toward alcohol consumption and to explain this attitude from rational choice theory perspective. the method of this research was survey and the data collection ins...

This study used a cross-sectional, multi-site survey design to examine Chinese parents’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the area of sexuality education for adolescents. Three cities in China were selected for the survey, and the final sample contained 841 parents with children ranged from 11 to 19 years. The majority of Chinese parents were found to have reasonably accurate knowledge abo...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the level of knowledge and the attitudes of Korean adults toward sexuality of elderly people. METHODS This was a descriptive study using a convenience sample of 241 adults. The questionnaire had 34 items for knowledge and 26 items for attitudes. RESULTS The result showed that, related to sexuality of elderly people, the level of knowledge was...

objective: the present research aimed to study the relationship of identity styles and attitude toward delinquency with delinquent behavior of adolescents. methods: the present research is a cross sectional study. data collection tools were berzonsky’s identity style inventory, attitude toward delinquent behaviors questionnaire, and interviews, which were analyzed through simultaneous regressio...

The painful experiences of an adolescent boy treated in analytically oriented psychotherapy are used as a lens through which we can consider the effects of homophobia, their internalization, and their entanglement with intrapsychic processes. Controversies in the psychoanalytic literature on internalized homophobia are also considered. Homophobia within the developmental literature and the nasc...