background: thus study aimed to test the hypothesis that positiveemotion can quell or undo the lingering worry and ruminationfollowing induced negative emotion.methods: 32 female students in grade 1 of high school wererandomly recruited and assigned in two experimental and controlgroups. they completed questionnaires in a pretest that are listedherewith: (1) rumination questionnaire; (2) two sc...

Discourses of professionalism suggest that emotion and feelings should be kept outside the arena of professional practice (Abbott, 1988) and this applies to the helping professions of medicine and health care just as it does to engineering, finance or management. In the context of professional practice across a range of occupations that includes medical personnel, lawyers and mortuary directors...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this project is to specify features of family life that are associated with disease management in African Americans with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 159 African-American patients with type 2 diabetes were assessed on three domains of family life (structure/organization, world view, and emotion management) and three key dimensions of disease man...

BACKGROUND Chronic stress has been shown to be associated with disease. This link is not only direct but also indirect through harmful health behavior such as smoking or changing eating habits. The recent mHealth trend offers a new and promising approach to support the adoption and maintenance of appropriate stress management techniques. However, only few studies have dealt with the inclusion o...

Educational Modelling Languages (EMLs) have been proposed to enable the authoring of models of learning units (e.g., courses, lessons, lab practices, seminars) covering the broad variety of pedagogical approaches. In addition, some EMLs have been proposed as computational languages that support the processing of learning unit models by appropriate Learning Management Systems (LMSs). In this con...