The article examines the influence of personality Russian ambassador Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov on Russian-Japanese relations. embassy to Japan ended in failure and gave rise new sad events Among such are Khvostov incident (also known as Rezanov-Davydov-Khvostov incident), when some Japanese villages crafts Sakhalin were robbed burned, Golovnin incident, navigator Vasily Mikhailovich was capture...

Nurses from a variety of practice settings were surveyed for their perception of challenges in caring for morbidly obese patients, barriers to care, and issues involved in providing care. Specialized equipment was available to the majority of nurses but availability varied by practice setting. Nurses in hospitals were more likely to have access to equipment, while the majority of nurses practic...

It is a common strategy to use celebrity endorsers in marketing campaigns. However, scientific literature on the effective use of celebrity endorsers has mainly focused on the credibility and the attractiveness of the celebrity. This study examines another endorser characteristic, which, despite other fields of psychological research confirming its importance, has not received much attention wi...

Previous research has studied the relationship between the use of the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) and various personality traits when individuals are presented with persuasive information. This study aims to examine attitude change toward treatment in personality disorder (PD) patients using the ELM. It is predicted that patients of BPD, SPD, and OCPD will be more likely to use the centr...

S[NCE the publication of The Authoritarian Personality (2), the relationship of ethnic prejudice and authoritarian attitudes to personality and psychopathology has been the subject of anumber of studies. Several scales have been used as measures of authoritarian attitudes, and the personality factors underlying authoritarianism have been investigated with an even greater variety of techniques. ...

The main purposes of the present study were to see how the term "euthanasia" influences people's support for or opposition to euthanasia; and to see how euthanasia attitude relates to religious orientation and personality factors. In this study two different euthanasia attitude scales were compared. 197 students were selected to fill out either the Euthanasia Attitude Scale (EAS) or Wasserman's...

BACKGROUND Playing video games contributes substantially to sedentary behavior in youth. A new generation of video games-active games-seems to be a promising alternative to sedentary games to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior. At this time, little is known about correlates of active and non-active gaming among adolescents. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to exa...

background: epilepsy comprised the highest proportion of neurological problem of childhood stage, which observed mostly in the first decade of life. the dramatic effect of having a seizure in the classroom can be very traumatic for any child. the knowledge and attitude of teachers toward epilepsy have a direct impact on the life of students with epilepsy. methods: a cross-sectional descriptive ...