matter. Director-General Taylor's figures do not indicate that within the last ten years any noteworthy evidence of physical decadence has taken place in recruits except as regards their teeth. This may mean a sign of physical degeneracy or an outcome of more care and strictness in examining and appraising the condition of the teeth. It is argued that sanitary laws and reforms have caused the s...

ability to have good interpersonal relationship without social anxiety is the inseparable component of an effective nursing care process. the purpose of this study was to determine relationship between social anxiety and some demographic characteristics in undergraduate nursing students. this descriptive analytic study includes 400 students from tehran university of medical sciences who were re...

The state of childhood obesity in Canada and many countries worldwide has reached epidemic proportions. The Canadian prevalence has tripled from 1981-1996. A stunning 40% of obese children and 70% of obese youth continue this trend into adulthood. This has led to higher rates of adult obesity and associated conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. A chronically positive en...

social cognition is defined as the capacity to generate, perceive and interpret and responses to the dispositions, intentions and behaviors of other people. it includes different specific cognitive processes that underlie social interactions. four domains of social cognition are named theory of mind (also known as mentalizing), emotion recognition, social perception and attributional style. anx...

From a public health point of view, the actors controlling human health can be classiunder two main heads?internal and ?xternal. The internal factors include heredity na physique, the latter being determined a^gely by nutrition, and the external factors Physical and social environments. individual health is to a great extent ^ependent on the individual's hereditary characeristics?physique, inte...

social anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder in which a person has an excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations. social anxiety and self-consciousness arise from a fear of being closely watched and criticized by others. clinical observation also suggests that some persons with social anxiety disorder may experience intense anger at others upon perceived negative evaluation or when ...

Social anxiety is a form of anxiety characterized by continuous fear of one or more social or performance situations. Although multiple treatment modalities (cognitive behavioral therapy, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors/selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, benzodiazepines) exist for social anxiety, they are effective for only 60% to 70% of patients. Thus, researchers have looke...

Social anxiety appears to be a prominent characteristic of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). However, few previous studies have examined social anxiety and its facets (i.e., physiological arousal, fear and avoidance of social situations) and their relationship to psychosocial functioning in BDD. The present study aimed to fill these gaps by examining (a) social anxiety and its facets in BDD, and ...