Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of verbal self-Instruction on pessimistic attribution style about negative events in children with dyslexia. Methods: The study was experimental with pre-test-post-test and control group. The statistical population consists of all dyslexic students of Maktab Ali School in Tehran City. Forty students were selected by conve...

Thoughts about the future reflect personal goals, and projections into the future enrich our emotional life. Researchers have taken an interest in determining whether the tendency to remember more positive than negative emotional events observed when recalling past events also appears when remembering imagined future events. The objective of this study was to examine the age-based positivity ef...

There is evidence that daily negative events at work enhance fatigue. In contrast, positive events may trigger processes that increase, but also processes that decrease, energetic resources. Accordingly, results regarding a main effect of positive events on fatigue have been mixed. However, a clearer pattern between positive events and fatigue can be expected under adverse circumstances (i.e., ...

aim and background: cognitive investigations of emotional disorders proposed that cognitive biases have at least a role as maintenance factors in psychopathology. this study aimed to compare the styles of attribution in a group of students with borderline personality traits and a normal group. methods and materials: this was a cross-sectional survey. through stratified random sampling, 330 stud...

BACKGROUND Major negative life events are associated with higher suicidality. In this association, two mediating paths were hypothesized: (a) via minor negative life events and (b) via depression. METHODS Ninety-six adolescent primary care patients were recruited in clinics, a physician's office, and school nurses' offices. RESULTS (1) Minor negative life events were associated with depress...

A 30-day diary study examined personality moderators (neuroticism and extraversion) of the interaction between positive and negative daily events predicting daily negative affect and night-time stress. Multilevel analyses revealed positive daily events buffered the effect of negative daily events on negative affect for individuals low in neuroticism and individuals high in extraversion, but not...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the association, if any, between negative social events and physical illness. DESIGN Comparison of major social events and indices of disease. SETTING-Hong Kong, 1962 to 1985. SUBJECTS Patients treated in hospital for attempted suicide, coronary heart disease, and diabetes mellitus. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Major events were selected from the annual Hon...

This study is a qualitative grounded theory examination of the preand post-Katrina life of hurricane survivors. Forty heads of households with school-age children who lived in New orleans during Hurricane Katrina were interviewed 6 to 8 months apart. Findings suggest that low-income study participants had experienced multiple negative life events linked to their poverty status prior to Hurrican...

This study examined the potential mediating and moderating effects of different ways of coping on the impact of negative life events (NLE) on psychological health among adolescents, 63 boys and 66 girls, in Botswana. Distraction as a way of coping and seeking social support were found to reduce the impact of NLE on psychological health concerns. Rumination was associated with increased distress...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction on pessimistic attribution style about negative events in children with dyslexia. methods: the study was experimental with pre-test-post-test and control group. the statistical population consists of all dyslexic students of maktab ali school in tehran city. forty students were selected by convenie...