Gender disparity in sleep difficulties in young adults may be driven by higher rates of affective disorders in women. This article investigated a range of factors as potential predictors of "difficulty sleeping" in 9,061 women aged 24 to 30 years, using survey data. Regression analyses and odds ratios showed that depression and anxiety symptoms were indeed the greatest predictors of difficulty ...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of work addressing the distractive, affect-enhancing, and motivational influences of music and video in combination during exercise. PURPOSE We examined the effects of music and music-and-video on a range of psychological and psychophysical variables during treadmill running at intensities above and below ventilatory threshold (VT). METHODS Participants (N = 24...

Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation have been proposed as 2 major individualdifference variables underlying prejudice. This study examined the relationships of these variables to 3 forms of prejudice—affective responses, stereotyping, and attitudes toward equality enhancement— directed at 2 social groups—African Americans and homosexuals. Canonical correlation analyses ...

Based on customer cognitive, affective and conative experiences in Internet online shopping, this study, from customers’ perspectives, develops a conceptual framework for e-CRM to explain the psychological process that customers maintain a long-term exchange relationship with specific online retailer. The conceptual framework proposes a series of causal linkages among the key variables affectin...

OBJECTIVE In this study, patients with affective disorders with or without suicide attempts were examined according to whether their disorder was unipolar or bipolar. An analysis was made of their socio-demographic variables, comorbid psychiatric symptoms, and affective temperament dimensions in order to understand the effects of these variables on suicide risk. METHOD The study populations c...

Recently, Willingness to Communicate (WTC) has been explored and proposed be one of the key concepts for identifying when decides initiate communication in target language. The attention, nonetheless, concentrated on how WTC interacts with other learners’ variables. This study, hand, intends offer empirical evidence direct roles affective variables (self-confidence, anxiety, motivation, grit) (...

BACKGROUND Several studies have reported alterations in finger and a-b ridge counts, and their derived measures of asymmetry, in schizophrenia compared to controls. Because ridges are fully formed by the end of the second trimester, they may provide clues to disturbed early development. The aim of this study was to assess these measures in a sample of patients with psychosis and normal controls...