objective: type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic and progressive disease that has reached the epidemic level around the world. in malaysia, according to the third national health and morbidity survey (2006), the prevalence of diabetes has increased to 14.9% from 8.3% in 1996. co-morbid psychological factors such as depression, anxiety, and stress have been shown to be high among type 2 diabetic...

background and objectives:job burnout is a major source of healthcare human resources inefficiency with severe negative impact on patient care, physical-psychological health of staff, and healthcare costs. psychological empowerment is a relatively new concept showing promise in boosting different aspect of human resources management. in this study, we pursued the question of whether psychologic...

knowledge sharing can be considered as an organizational behavior with a great importance which is affected by the other organizational behavior variables. this paper with a descriptive-survey approach, tries to investigate knowledge sharing behavior as a substantial aspect of knowledge management and to analyze its relationships with psychological empowerment and psychological capital as the m...

background: psoriasis is a disease which may have a direct impact on the psychological and social aspects of the patient, particularly due to its visibility. to date, we are unaware of any study showing a relationship between psoriasis and psychological parameters such as psychological vulnerability and coping strategies . objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of psoriasi...

The current study adds to existing knowledge by investigating how competitive psychological climate (CPC) is associated with employees' perceptions of the extent which their employer has failed appropriately fulfil contract. To test research model, we collected information from 247 employees in eight companies. findings suggest that CPC a positive indirect relationship contract breach (PCB) thr...

introduction: presence of mentally retarded children in every family affects on the structure and mental health of family specially parents. the purpose of this research is the comparison of the mean of psychological well-being, mental health and self-esteem between parents of normal and educable students. materials & methods: this was causal- comparative and retrospective study and the instrum...

purpose: psychological inflexibility and mindfulness represent two important constructs of the new generation of cognitive behavioral therapy that in recent years has attracted attention of many researchers especially in the chronic health problems area. thus, the purpose of the present study was to assess the relationships psychological inflexibility and pain acceptance with resiliency in chro...