OBJECTIVES The research was aimed at searching for diversified models of female teachers' functioning that could be determined by their individual traits, psychological variables, and professional adaptation factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS Three hundred eleven female teachers aged from 26 to 60 were examined. The following tools were used in the research: The Hope Scale, NEO-FFI Inventory, IPSA...

The authors predict that in a few years, many areas of psychology will be awash in specific genes responsible for the widespread influence of genetics on behavior. As the focus shifts from finding genes (genomics) to understanding how genes affect behavior (behavioral genomics), it is important for the future of psychology as a science that pathways between genes and behavior be examined not on...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. However, it remains unproven whether psychological factors have an influence on breast cancer incidence. In our earlier study, subjects possessing two personality traits, decisiveness and "ikigai" (a Japanese word meaning something that makes one's life worth living), showed a significantly lower risk of developing breast cancer, although no psy...

in order to deliberate correlation coefficient between grain yield and yield components among 31 cowpea genotypes under normal irrigation (non-stress) and drought stress (water withholidng after flowering stage until maturity) an experiment was performed in a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three replications at research field of university of tehran located at karaj during 2011-20...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have showed some evidences about the relationship between personality traits particularly neuroticism and extroversion, separately, with psychological stress and anxiety. In the current study, we clarified the magnitude of joint interdependence (co-morbidity) of anxiety (continuous) and Psychological stress (dichotomous) as dependent variables of mixed type with five...

maryam sadat salamati1, hossein zeinali2 ,ehdi yousefi3     1- ardestan branch, islamic azad university, ardestan, iran   2- esfahan agricultural and natural research center, isfahan, iran   3- assist. prof, payam noor university, isfahan, iran             received: 10 february 2011 accepted: 26 may 2011     * corresponding author: e-mail: [email protected]       abstract     in order to...

This paper reviews the utility and availability of biological and ecological traits for marine species so as to prioritise the development of a world database on marine species traits. In addition, the 'status' of species for conservation, that is, whether they are introduced or invasive, of fishery or aquaculture interest, harmful, or used as an ecological indicator, were reviewed because thes...