Questionnaire measures of attachment style, attachment history, beliefs about relationships, selfesteem, limerence, loving, love addiction, and love styles were administered to 374 undergraduates. Attachment style was related in theoretically expected ways to attachment history and to beliefs about relationships. Securely attached Ss reported relatively positive perceptions of their early famil...

Self-esteem is an important academic construct in the process of education. It is how people feel about themselves and how much they like themselves, especially socially and academically when it comes to college students. Through the many pressures and daunting responsibilities of being a student, one learns and understands the importance of having a high self-esteem in college. Research has es...

versa [1]. High BMIs tend to be related to lower self-esteem in both adults and children as reported in many [2-6], but not in all studies [7-9]. The relationship between body weight and selfesteem is often moderated by culture, gender, age and ethnicity [1]. The relationship is mediated by a number of factors such as cultural norms [10], number of previous dieting attempts [11], intimate relat...

Results a) Problems: young MSMs & TGs engage in unprotected anal intercourse (80.9%), risk sex with people unknown of their HIV status (66%), drug and tobacco (59.6%) and alcohol consumption (55.3%). All participants perceived that MSM & TGs don’t use condoms consistently. They also experience mental health problems like anxiety and depression (80.9%). b) Associated factors: QDA outlined follow...

The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore and describe the evaluation of a psychiatric day hospital by a group of participants. Clients attending a day hospital between 1999 and 2003 completed a program evaluation questionnaire during their last week (N = 567). A qualitative content analysis of 104 questionnaires was conducted by three investigators. Results indicated that clients ...

Individuals are known to respond to self-threats by increasing consumption behaviors. These are intended to ameliorate the psychological discomfort aroused by a threat by symbolically compensating for the threatened aspect of the self or by distracting attention from the threat. However, such behaviors merely mask the threat, and can result in harmful consequences, such as overeating or excessi...

The study aims to examine the role of mastery and self-esteem as a potential mediator of the relationship of meaning in life and well-being among older Chinese stroke survivors. A crosssectional study was conducted in 214 community-dwelling older stroke survivors (128 men and 86 women), ranging from 60 years to 88 years old. The meaning in life, mastery, selfesteem and subjective well-being wer...

Electronic mail has become an indispensable tool in business and academia, and personal use is increasing every day. However, there is also evidence that Email, unlike more traditional communication media, can exert a powerful hold over its users and that many computer users experience stress as a direct result of email-related pressure. This paper develops a three-fold typology of orientations...

IQ of the average patient has changed considerably in the last decades, as society has become more health conscious. People are living longer in a youth-oriented society, and patients expect dental solutions where not only function is restored, but health, aesthetics, and selfesteem as well. Dentistry itself has evolved from the aggressive and resective procedures of the past which, by contempo...

Feedback from a synthesizer when typing a text has been found useful for children with reading and writing problems. Increased motivation and improvement in spelling skills were observed. A recent project has shown further potentials of this new approach. Children can experiment wi th speech sounds and practice identifying phonemes, discriminating between short and long vowels, rhyming, discove...