Within economics, there has been a recent effort to better understand the notion of culture, typically defined as beliefs, values, and norms held by individuals. Empirical work has focused on identifying systematic cultural differences between individuals from different ethnic and national backgrounds. More recently, attention has turned to the historical origins of cultural differences (e.g., ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the extent to which antecedent variables and appraisals differentiate levels of hope in women during treatment for breast cancer. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SETTING Two large midwestern urban areas. SAMPLE 73 Caucasian women between the ages of 20-73 with first-time diagnosis of breast cancer; recruited through five physician offices; within three mon...

There is a consensus among psychological theorists indicating that beliefs and behaviors are related. Since most of the homogeneous and institutionalized tenets among social groups and people, religious beliefs relation with behaviors is a theme deserved to be studied. Examining the relation between religious beliefs and risky behaviors will help to predict and prevent such behaviors. Most psyc...

in this survey the effectiveness of religious- spiritual intervention based on islamic approach on psychological and immune indices  related to personality type d patients with rheumatoid arthritis is studied. statistical society consisted of patients who were referenced to the rheumatology clinics in the center and northern parts tehran. 44 patients with rheumatoid arthritis using purposive sa...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a vicarious contact intervention program for improving knowledge and attitudes Jewish-Israeli secular religious children regarding their ingroup three outgroups: secular/religious Jews, Ethiopian-descendant Arabs. One hundred nine kindergartners participated in four-week intervention, which experimenters introduced to them four persona dolls representin...

BACKGROUND Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been successfully implemented in 14 countries as an additional HIV prevention intervention. As VMMC programs mature in most countries, the focus is now on how to sustain the HIV prevention gains realised from VMMC. As part of preparations for the sustainability phase, countries are either piloting or preparing to pilot early infant male ...

background : breast cancer is the first-rank malignancy in women. although surgery is the most common method of treatment, patients experience many threats both from the cancer and from the surgery itself. exercises such as walking can improve body mass index, attitudes and life quality of patients. the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of walking on physical aspect of qualit...

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

INTRODUCTION Communication between parents and adolescents regarding sexuality is an important reproductive health topic. Due to complexities associated with adolescent's physiological development, sexuality should be dealt with holistically. This study aimed to investigate factors affecting effective communication between parents and adolescents concerning sexual and reproductive health issues...