AIM To examine how 5-factor personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness) and 3 higher-order health-related personality constructs (negative experience, optimistic control, and passivity) are related to self-reports of subjective health outcomes (positive and negative mood, physical symptoms, and general health concern) and objective health condi...

Researchers and practitioners have an abiding interest in improving tools and methods to support idea generation. In studies that go beyond merely enumerating ideas, researchers typically select one or more of the following three constructs, which are often operationalized as the dependent variable(s): 1) idea quality, 2) idea novelty, which is sometimes referred to as rarity or unusualness, an...

The purpose of the present study was to test the factorial and discriminant validity of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), a measure of illness representations based on Leventhal, Meyer and Nerenz’s Self-Regulation Theory, in a cervical screening context using confirmatory factor analysis. Six hundred and sixty women, who had attended a colposcopy clinic and were invited to r...

This research studied the user behavior on online group buying services. In the research model, users’ behavior is represented by three dimensions, satisfactory, trust, and group buying intention. Satisfaction is hypothesized to have positive relationship with trust that will have positive impact on the purchase intention. Each of the three dimensions is divided into two constructs, one for pro...

Background Type 2 diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder that has a lot of consequences on the quality of life in diabetic patients. Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions based on BASNEF model on quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: this before-and-after quasi-experimental study was performed on one group of 45 patients with type 2 diabetes, using con...

background family-centered empowerment of drug and stimulant users is an effective program for a better response to treatment, prevention of treatment adverse effects, and promotion quality of life (qol) and lifestyle in the process of discontinuing drug abuse. objectives this study aimed to determine the effects of educational intervention, based on family-centered empowerment and pender's hea...