Delay discounting refers to a pervasive tendency toward preferring smaller immediate gains over larger future gains. Recent empirical research has shown that episodic future thinking (EFT; i.e., projecting oneself into the future to pre-experience forthcoming events) can reduce the tendency toward discounting. A common tenet of psychological theories of crime is that delinquency results from fo...

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 AND METHO...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of psychosocial stress and attitude toward illness to psychological adjustment among youth with chronic arthritis. METHODS Seventy-five youths with chronic arthritis aged 8-18 years were administered a semi-structured interview assessing illness-related and nonillness-related stressors in important life domains. Children also completed measures of attitud...

nowadays, many governments have found that the main cause of water crises in agricultural sector related to neglecting farmers’ role in irrigation and drainage networks management. water users association has been considered in order to transferring irrigation management to local beneficiaries. if farmers' opinion toward such transferring don't be investigated, it may lead to failure....

abstract: as a social and cultural behavior,the relationship between boy and girl is almost a new phenomena in our society.it seems to cause many worries at the various social level by reason of creating some of issues and problems.this research focuses on two main purpose:firstly,to examine girls’ attitude toward relationship with opposite sex and to explore effective elements upon the girl’s ...

this descriptive study investigates medical students' attitudes toward psychiatric wards. the study was completed at two psychiatric hospitals of shaheed navab safavi, and shaheed ismaily, as well as the psychiatric ward of shaheed rahnamoon hospital. medical students at two level of internship and stagery participated in the study. they completed questionnaires containing general informat...

[The following paper is a summary of two lectures given by Dr. Lucas, of the Maudsley Hospital, at the Secretaries' Course in February, and is reprinted at the request of those who attended the Course.] Behaviour disorders in childhood and adolescence are of more serious import than is usually recognised. Too often are they the direct precursors of neurosis and of crime in adult life, yet it is...

Sexually transmitted diseases are that through sexual intercourse with multiple partners and a form of behavior deviates exceeds boundaries or is also called juvenile delinquency. Basically delinquency refers to adolescent not in accordance the norms exist society. At Public Senior High School 8 Alalak Tengah Community Health Center, Banjarmasin City, there one person who quit school because he...