THE PURPOSE of this report is to describe how persons having rheumatoid arthritis differ from unaffected controls in their recall of early parent+hild relations. The hypotheses examined in this study were mainly derived from research presented in several major reviews [l-3], as well as from case reports [4-61. Cross-reference to research articles shows that findings specifically describing pare...

To compare the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors, including: spiritual growth, nutrition, physical activity, interpersonal relations, health responsibility, and stress management, of healthcare workers with workers of other professions. Cross-sectional observational study among a convenience sample of 285 healthcare workers and 137 of other professions. The Health-Promoting Lifestyle Prof...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that adverse workplace factors can increase the risk of ill-health in hospital workers, but more comprehensive measures of the psychosocial work environment are needed. OBJECTIVES To test a comprehensive and theory-based psychosocial work environment questionnaire and analyze associations with mental health in a sample of Danish hospital workers. DESIGN AND PAR...

BACKGROUND Marital satisfaction is one of the deepest and the most basic human pleasures and should be established within the family environment; if not, couples might suffer emotionally. Several factors are involved, including attachment and lifestyle. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between styles of attachment and lifestyle with marital satisfaction...

T he practice of nonverbal communication relies on a range of innate and developed foundational processes. One foundation underlying the use of nonverbal communication focuses on individual differences in the abilities to communicate nonverbally. This ability, or skill, approach is akin to a personality perspective in that it focuses on individual differences in the sending (encoding), receivin...

An exploratory, qualitative study with the objective of analyzing repercussions of the supervised curricular internship in the development of the ethical dimension of competency in undergraduate nursing students. Semistructured interviews were performed with 28 students, professors and nurse preceptors of a public institution of higher education in the state of São Paulo, during the period of O...

OBJECTIVE While researchers have increasing insight into the role of genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of psychiatric and substance use disorders, they know much less about how such factors influence the dimensions of healthy psychological functioning. METHOD In a population-based sample of 794 female-female twin pairs, the authors examined, by using multivariate structural eq...

INTRODUCTION Clinical education is an indispensible part of the nursing education. Clinical nurses play an important role in this teaching learning process. The quality and quantity of student-nurse interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hamper students' learning. The rationale of this research was to probe into staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing students within the cont...

Real world observations suggest that social norms of cooperation can be effective in overcoming social dilemmas such as the joint management of a common pool resource – but also that they can be subject to slow erosion and sudden collapse. We show that these patterns of erosion and 15 collapse emerge endogenously in a model of a closed community harvesting a renewable natural resource in which ...

conclusions these results suggest that addictive behaviors can affect behavioral addictions in bipolar mood patients. behavioral addictions lead to negative emotional regulation strategies and result in increased behavioral addictions in these patients. people with high levels of arousal or those who cannot control their behavioral addictions are probably more prone to addictive behaviors. resu...