ANGER AND HOPE

Increase Hope and Anger Management of Mothers with Children with Cancer through Life Skills Training

Cancer is one of chronic diseases. People with cancer need permanent treatment and care and this causes the patient and their families to be in difficult situation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the increase of hope and anger management of mothers with children with cancer through life skills training (interpersonal relationship, problem solving, and anger control).  This resear...

Emotions and sport performance: an exploration of happiness, hope, and anger.

We conducted three experiments to examine the relationships between emotions and subcomponents of performance. Experiment 1 revealed that anger was associated with enhanced gross muscular peak force performance but that happiness did not influence grammatical reasoning performance. Following Lazarus (1991, 2000a), we examined hope rather than happiness in Experiment 2. As hypothesized, hope yie...

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Anger in chronic pain: investigations of anger targets and intensity.

The study was designed to assess the frequency and intensity of patients' anger directed toward various potential targets and how intensity of anger toward different targets was related to the chronic pain experience. Ninety-six chronic pain patients who were referred for a comprehensive evaluation completed questionnaires to assess their levels of anger, pain, distress, and disability. Approxi...