Stressful life events (SLEs) are frequently associated with a range of deleterious mental and physical health outcomes. However, some individuals exhibit resilience, defined as maintained or even improved health in the wake of SLEs. How and why might this be the case? Given that SLEs give rise to negative emotions, which in turn contribute to mental and physical illness, promising answers to qu...

Today, the relationship between health-related quality of life at school (general satisfaction, relationships with teachers, negative emotions), body mass index with stress is challenging issues in domain of health and psychology. This study aimed to determine the perceived stress and its relationship with body mass index, general satisfaction, relationship with teachers, negative emotions. Dur...

background: despite expanded coverage of family planning in iran, unwanted pregnancy is a common problem. the aim of this study was to explore women’s experiences of unwanted pregnancy in shahroud public health centers. methods: purposive sampling was conducted by means of focus group discussions (fgds) and in-depth interviews and by a semi-constructed questionnaire in this qualitative research...

Evidence suggests that heightened negative affectivity is a prominent feature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) that often leads to maladaptive behaviors. Nevertheless, there is little research examining treatment effects on the experience and expression of specific negative emotions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an effective treatment for BPD, hypothesized to reduce negative af...

The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of different strategies for regulating emotions associated with smoking on subjective, cognitive, and behavioral correlates of smoking. Emotion regulation was manipulated by instructing participants to reappraise (n = 32), accept (n = 31), or suppress (n = 31) their emotions associated with smoking. The dependent measures included subjective...