this study attempts to identify and evaluate the factors affecting excessive buying that is of high interests theoretically and practically. at first some scales will be developed based on past researches and existing classifications to represent the logical and conceptual varieties in buying excessively. then, psychometric properties of the scales are tested by analyzing the factors confirming...

the main goal of the present research is to investigate the effect of the emotionally focused therapy to increase marital adjustment & positive feeling among couples suffered to extra marital relations. the sample was included 12 clients. treatment plan (eft) accomplished individually. participants were assigned into experimental & control groups randomly. the dyadic adjustment scale and positi...

Present study was carried out to study the status of maternal consciousness among Nepalese women living in Kathmandu. Of the total 360 mothers of different ethnic groups included in this study, only 55.5% mothers were found to have a positive feeling regarding their pregnancy (pregnancy is a wonderful event for women) (strongly positive 16.6%; positive 39.2%). Over one-forth of the mothers (27....

The impact of induced mild positive feelings on working memory and complex decision making among older adults (aged 63-85) was examined. Participants completed a computer administered card task in which participants could win money if they chose from "gain" decks and lose money if they chose from "loss" decks. Individuals in the positive-feeling condition chose better than neutral-feeling parti...

Feeling of knowing judgments can be viewed as one mode of expressing knowledge of stored information. The present experiments explored the relation of the feeling of knowing to two other modes of expressing knowledge, recall and recognition, by examining how manipulations of encoding, storage, and retrieval conditions affected the relative frequency of positive and negative feeling of knowing j...