background: sexual practices as an important aspect of reproductive health have many physical and psychological effects on people’s lives, there is limited evidence on such practices and their pattern among iranian women. hence we aimed to determine different types of sexual practices among 19-45 year old married iranian women. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 married...

The ability to produce peak performance plays a decisive role in the success of athletes in competitive contest situations. Levels of appetitive competition motivation (ACM), i.e., the desire to defeat an opponent independent of secondary reinforcing factors, were assessed in professional female football/soccer players in the premier and regional leagues, using club level as the measurement of ...

BACKGROUND The selection hypothesis posits that the increased rates of psychosis observed among migrants are due to selective migration of people who are predisposed to develop the disorder. To test this hypothesis, we examined whether risk factors for psychosis are more prevalent among future emigrants. METHOD A cohort of 49,321 Swedish military conscripts was assessed at age 18 years on can...

15 Abstract – Introduction. Relatively frequent postural defects are a considerable problem of contemporary children and youth. Parents and nurses in the education and upbringing setting can play a significant role in the early diagnosis of these defects. The aim of the study. The aim of the study was to establish to what degree parents are prepared to educate their children in the field of pos...

Objectives: To explore whether student rural upbringing, rural training were associated with their intent to practice in a rural health care setting after graduation in the disciplines of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy at a large university Health Sciences Center in Appalachia. Methods: Graduating healthcare professional students were surveyed to determine student ru...

Life history theory predicts that mothers should provide their offspring with a privileged upbringing if this enhances their offspring ’ s and their own fi tness. In many mammals, highranking mothers provide their offspring with a privileged upbringing. Whether dispersing sons gain fi tness benefi ts during adulthood from such privileges (a ‘ silver spoon ’ effect) has rarely been examined. In ...

Upbringing is a complex life process of building and developing human being following his/her characteristics. For the upbringing to culminate in formation intellectually morally complete independent people, question has always arisen as what it that makes effective. The main intention this paper present analyze fundamental educational guidelines devised posited by famous philosophers antiquity...

The text contains information on the history of pedagogical thought. author’s intention was to show universal goals and educational values ideals throughout (from antiquity present).

Growing up in urban areas represents a possible risk factor in the genesis of psychopathologies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the link between urbanicity variables and indicators for psychiatric disorders. We investigated a potential association between primary emotional traits and urbanicity variables in 324 individuals from Germany and 713 individuals from China. Higher sco...

An individual's willingness to share resources declines as the social distance between the decision maker and the recipient increases, which is known as social discounting. This social-distance-dependent prosocial behavior is likely to be influenced by the region in which individuals were raised. Based on previous studies on social discounting, this research focuses on the differing social dist...