Young people have a high prevalence of mental health problems, yet tend not to seek help. Trusted adults in young people’s lives, such as teachers and sports coaches, can make a major positive contribution to the mental health of young people. Teachers and sports coaches may be in a position to be effective in supporting young people’s mental health through promotion, prevention and early inter...

The objective of the study was to develop and evaluate an effective whole-community approach to identifying a diverse group of influential young people to effectively diffuse health promotion messages among their peers. A peer nomination questionnaire, developed through extensive piloting work, was completed by 10 730 Year 8 students (aged 12-13 years) in 59 schools (30 intervention, 29 control...

People seriously misjudge accident risks because they routinely neglect relevant information about exposure. Such risk judgments affect both personal and public policy decisions (e.g., choice of a transport mode) but also play a vital role in legal determinations, such as assessments of recklessness. Experimental evidence for a sample of 422 jury-eligible adults indicates that people incorporat...

Influential theories in social psychology, philosophy, and linguistics assume that ordinary people judge many mental states as outside voluntary control, yet few studies have directly investigated these claims. We report four studies suggesting that, contrary to several prominent models, ordinary people attribute at least moderate intentional control to others over a wide variety of mental stat...

OBJECTIVE To examine where rural physicians grew up, when during their training they became interested in rural medicine, factors influencing their decision to practise rural medicine, and differences in these measures according to rural or urban upbringing. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Rural Canada. PARTICIPANTS Rural family physicians who graduated between 1991 and 2000 from a Canadian...

after reza khan took power and established a powerful central government, the way was paved for planning reforms in iran. among these reforms was the improvement of the status of women, which tried to make iran similar to the west. this goal accounts for the removal of hijab and changing the appearance of the people. in the present study, through library research, the authors investigated how p...

Human purchasing behavior is affected by many influential factors. Culture at macro-level and personality at microlevel influence consumer purchasing behavior. People of different cultures tend to accept the values of their own group and consequently have different purchasing behavior. Also, people in the same culture have some differences in their purchases which can be described by their pers...

People tend to believe, and take advice from, informants who are highly confident. However, people use more than a mere ‘‘confidence heuristic.” We believe that confidence is influential because—in the absence of other information—people assume it is a valid cue to an informant’s likelihood of being correct. However, when people get evidence about an informant’s calibration (i.e., her confidenc...

INTRODUCTION Elderly people may suffer from the multiple health disorders due to the vulnerability for many physical and mental disturbances. Quality of life in elderly population can be affected by many environmental factors. The aim of this study was aimed to examine the quality of life in elderly people in Tabriz, Iran in 2012. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out on 184 elde...