INTRODUCTION Asthma control varies in different clinical settings because of its multidimensional and heterogeneous nature, and variability over time. The revised asthma management guidelines indicate that the goal of treatment should be maintaining asthma control for long periods. The aims of this study were to explore: (i) difference in asthma control test scores in patients at different clin...

objective: the aim of our study was to investigate the effect of coping strategies, personality trait and social support as the main social and psychological factors on infertility stress. materials and methods: this study was conducted on 201 infertile iranian women referred to the vali-e-asr reproductive health research center, and completed the following questionnaires: the fertility problem...

BACKGROUND The current study examined the psychometric properties of the 12-item French-language version of the Questionnaire on Smoking Urges (QSU-12), a widely used multidimensional measure of cigarette craving. METHODS Daily smokers (n=230) completed the QSU-12, the Fägerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence, and items about addiction-related symptoms. Additional participants (n=40) completed...

The objective of the study was to examine psychometric characteristics of the short form of the Physical-Self Description Questionnaire (PSDQ-S) in a Slovenian adolescent sample and to examine the differences in multidimensional physical selfconcept in relation to age and gender. Participants were 362 elementary and high school students (189 girls, 173 boys, Mage=15.28). Confirmatory factor ana...

Both maladaptive schemas (MS) and perfectionism have been associated with eating pathology. However, previous research has not examined these variables simultaneously and has not studied possible mediating relationships between MS and multidimensional perfectionism for body image concerns in eating disorder (ED) patients. Eighty-eight female ED patients completed the Young Schema Questionnaire,...