Studies of attitudes across countries generally rely on a comparison of aggregated mean scores to Likert-scale questions. This presupposes that when people complete a questionnaire, their answers are based on the substantive meaning of the items to which they respond. However, people’s responses are also influenced by their response style. Hence, the studies we conduct might simply reflect diff...

The aim of this study was comparison satisfaction in athletes of leadership styles in the sport of karate.The research employs descriptive-correlation method.The population of the study, all athletes participating in the 2012 national competition in karate formed two studies (150 patients)from which the sample was taken of all methods Of which 80 were women and 70 were men.This study includes a...

background: cardiovascular disease (cvd) is one of the leading causes of death in the world. one of its most insidious forms is coronary heart disease (chd) which decreases patient's quality of life. research indicates that psychological factors are interrelated with coronary heart disease patients' quality of life. in the present study, the role of type d personality and emotional intelligence...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Leadership plays a crucial role in many professions, especially in challenging positions such as emergency medical service jobs. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between managers' leadership styles and emergency medical technicians' job satisfaction. METHOD This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study that was carried out in 2010. The research popul...

Courts are referring an increasing number of people to anger management treatment, yet there are very few available guidelines for how to diagnose and treat angry people. Indeed, anger does not exist as a diagnostic category in the DSM-IV. The purpose of the present study was (a) to determine whether people referred for anger treatment met the DSM-IV criterion for other affective disorders that...

Purpose – The purpose of this contribution is to focus on an essential issue in all workplace settings where the emphasis is on productivity, time management and creativity: getting innovative, high quality work completed in time according to tight schedules – often facing serious staff shortages. The intention is not to offer an ultimate answer, but to take a different look at the issues that ...