Objectives The study explored daily negative affect (NA) fluctuation, its associations with age, and its developmental characteristics. Method The sample (n = 790) was drawn from the Midlife Development in the United States; participants completed two 8-day daily diaries 10 years apart. Multilevel models were estimated within each diary component, where two single daily NA (depression and ner...

The' Freiburger Personality Inventory was administered to a group of 37 subjects three times-before they learned the Transcendental Meditation technique, approximately seven weeks later, and approximately 55 weeks later. At the last testing, 12 subjects had discontinued meditation and were treated as a control group in the data analysis. Comparison of the mean pretest scores of the 25 meditatin...

Chair: Stuart Montgomery, Barbara van Zwieten-Boot somatic symptoms that are characteristic for generalised anxiety. The largely nonspecific autonomic anxiety symptoms have been reduced in importance in DSMIV (AmeriCommittee: J. Angst, D.S. Baldwin, M. Bourin, R. Buller, can Psychiatric Association, 1994) with more weight given D. Hackett, S. Kasper, U. Kern, M. Lader, Y. Lecrubier, to nervous ...

Spatial ability is a strong predictor of students' pursuit of higher education in science and mathematics. However, very little is known about the affective factors that influence individual differences in spatial ability, particularly at a young age. We examine the role of spatial anxiety in young children's performance on a mental rotation task. We show that even at a young age, children repo...

BACKGROUND Despite interest in early treatment of schizophrenia, premorbid and prodromal symptomatology remain poorly delineated. AIMS To compare pre-illness symptomatology in patients at high risk of schizophrenia who progress to illness with that of high-risk subjects who remain well and with normal controls. METHOD Using Present State Examination (PSE) data, symptomatic scales were devis...

of twins. All her previous labours had been quite normal, and in them she had only had the assistance of a neighbour; this time, however, she felt some unaccountable nervousness, and wished the attendance of a medical man. She was perfectly well except for some slight dyspepsia, which simple treatment at once corrected. Nothing further was heard of her until December 2nd, when a note came from ...

Can deceitful intentions be discriminated from truthful ones? Previous work consistently demonstrated that deceiving others is accompanied by nervousness/stress and cognitive load. Both are related to increased sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity. We hypothesized that SNS activity already rises during intentions to lie and, consequently, cues to deception can be detected before stating an...

Four experiments show that gender diVerences in the propensity to initiate negotiations may be explained by diVerential treatment of men and women when they attempt to negotiate. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants evaluated written accounts of candidates who did or did not initiate negotiations for higher compensation. Evaluators penalized female candidates more than male candidates for initi...

BACKGROUND Cancer detection always has a lot of stress and nervousness which, apart from physical injuries, will affect quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between resiliency and quality of life by moderating the role of duration of awareness of cancer. METHODS Population of the study included all patients with cancer who were under treatment in Yazd For...