BACKGROUND Social support may be associated with heart failure (HF) self-care; however, the mechanisms are not well understood. We examined the association between perceived support and self-care behaviors and whether self-care confidence mediates these relationships. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of HF patients seen in outpatient clinic settings. Our outcome (HF self-care maintenance and se...

Considerable excitement and interest have arisen recently concerning the role that acute emotional triggers may play in precipitating a myocardial infarction (MI). Observational studies have found repeatedly that patients report excessive anger, anxiety, sadness, grief, or acute stress immediately prior to onset of MI, and recent meta-analyses summarizing these findings reported strong associat...

The aim of the research is to understand whether the accuracy of customer detection of employee emotional labor strategy would influence the overall service satisfaction. From path analysis, it was found that employee’s positive emotions positively influenced service quality. Service quality in turn influenced Customer detection of employee emotional deep action strategy and Customer detection ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a framework for conceptualizing the role of emotional and social skills in effective leadership and management and provides preliminary suggestions for research and for the development of leader emotional and social skills. Design/methodology/approach – The paper generalizes a dyadic communications framework in order to describe the process of ...

Research has demonstrated that children who experience familial sexual maltreatment are at risk for developing psychological difficulties characterized by emotional and behavioral dysregulation. Surprisingly, however, little attention has been directed toward identifying processes in emotional development that differ in maltreated and nonmaltreated children. From a developmental psychopathology...

AIM Emotional functions, as well as cognitive functions, are critical factors to assess in the care and management for dementia patients. In addition to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), we have developed a Mini-Emotional State Examination (MESE) for the examination of emotional functions in patients with dementia. METHODS MESE consists of a two-part questionnaire. The first probes em...

In recent years leadership and emotional intelligence have become hot topic in management and organization researches. We made an attempt to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive and express emotion to stimulate thought, understand and reason. It also regulates emotion in oneself and others. Leadership refers to t...

emotional intelligence is one of the most important concepts introduced to psychology and management in the last decade. the purposes of this study were to determine the effect of labor's emotional intelligence on job satisfaction, job performance and commitment in fars province industries in iran. the population from which we drew our sample consisted of employees employed in fars province in...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a new concept and a type of intelligence that is described as “the ability to understand exactly, evaluate and represent emotion”. Many studies were evaluated the effect of emotional intelligence on work satisfaction and performance. The results were shown that the employees with high level of emotional intelligence are valuable property for their orga...