BACKGROUND The development of drug dependence requires prior initiation. What is the relationship between the risk factors for initiation and dependence? METHODS Using smoking as a model addiction, we assessed smoking initiation (SI) and nicotine dependence (ND) by personal interview in 1898 female twins from the population-based Virginia Twin Registry. We developed a twin structural equation...

The present research aimed to investigate the effect of background Mozart Classical music on translator students' performance. In this study, the researchers focused not only on the relationship between music and translation but also on the relationship between music and personality traits. The main question this study tried to answer was whether using background music might enhance students' t...

Teleworking has, today, become a necessity for many organizations, so effective virtual team management is critical. This study analyzes the influence of personality traits workers on efficiency. To do we examine effects subordinates’ personalities trust they give leader and impact this commitment to team. We also discuss how team's degree virtuality leader's gender relationship between trust. ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Numerous studies have provided clear and convincing evidence that psychosocial factors contribute to the pathogenesis and expression of coronary heart disease (CHD). These factors have been related to the following psychosocial domains: personality factors and character traits, depression, anxiety, social isolation and chronic life stress. The aim of this study was to estimate th...

background: psychological characteristics affect the quality of life. this study aimed at determining the relationship between personal characteristics, internal locus of control , psychological hardiness and nurses’ quality of life. methods: in this correlation study, 297 nurses were selected based on curgesy and morgan table via multistage cluster sampling among 1023 nurses of the public hosp...

Cyberloafing is the voluntary acts of individuals using their companies’ Internet access for non-work related purposes during working hours. This study examines the impact of sleep deprivation on cyberloafing as measured objectively by time spent by individuals on non-work-related-computing. More specifically, we investigated the effect of individuals’ bed time and wake time after sleep onset (...

Subjective well-being is defined as individual’s cognitive and affective evaluation towards own life, which can be observed through positive self-esteem, perceived control, extroversion, optimism, social relationship feelings of purposeful meaningful life. also influenced by work experience. Basing on the above-mentioned definition, this study conducted to obtain a snapshot subjective daily wor...