BACKGROUND Knowledge about the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese medical students and its related factors is rather limited. Understanding the correlates of depressive symptoms and the roles that positive psychological variables play in depressive symptoms is of vital importance for future interventions. The main objectives of this study were to investigate the prevalence of depre...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of depression and anxiety and its associated factors in cervical cancer are not well evaluated in China. Meanwhile, with increasing attention given to positive psychological variables in oncology field, there is a need to conduct a study to explore the integrative effects of positive psychological variables on depression/anxiety so as to provide patients a more holisti...

We study multilateral bargaining games where agents disagree over their bar-gaining power. We show that if agents are extremely optimistic, there may be costlydelays in an arbitrarily long finite game but if optimism is moderate, all sufficientlylong games end in immediate agreement. We show that the game with extremeoptimism is highly unstable in the finite-horizon, and we exam...

Citation: dos Santos SB, Rocha GP, Fernandez LL, de Padua AC and Reppold CT (2018) Association of Lower Spiritual Well-Being, Social Support, Self-Esteem, Subjective Well-Being, Optimism and Hope Scores With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia. Front. Psychol. 9:371. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00371 Association of Lower Spiritual Well-Being, Social Support, Self-Esteem, Subjective Well-Bei...

Objectives: Hope therapy is one of the psychological interventions to help the couples deal with addiction problem. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the hope therapy on the orientation of the purpose and meaning of life expectancy in women with addicted husbands. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest control group. The population of this ...