there is little question anymore about the reality of post- traumatic stress disorder(ptsd) as a disorder. for some, this disorder progressively worsens over time and appears to affect nearly all aspects of life, including work, interpersonal relationships, physical health, and view of self. the severity of ptsd may lead to repeated hospitalizations over the years and may require ongoing outpat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the prediction of depression on a group of Iranian older adults based on components of health locus of control. METHOD Sixty-six men and 42 women over the age of 55 were recruited from the retirement clubs in Shiraz, using convenience sampling. The participants completed the research questionnaires including the Geriatric Depression Scale (GD...

Background: Chronic kidney disease as a major health problem can create physical, psychological, economic, and social problems for patients and generally affect their quality of life. However, health beliefs and behaviors of these patients can affect their health condition too. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the quality of life and health locus of control be...

This study explored how nursing practitioners perceived inpatients' anxiety, self-esteem, purpose-in-life and multidimensional health locus of control. Seventy-three nurses, 60 third-year and 70 first-year nursing students, and 61 control students not majoring in nursing science estimated how inpatients rated these four psychological states. Their ratings were compared with those given by 121 i...

The objective of this study was to compare the psychological variable upon health beliefs (Health Locus of Control) among female University level athletes. A total numbers of 100 athletes (50 track athletes and 50 field athletes) were selected from all India University athletics championship completed the Multidimensional health locus of control questionnaire containing measures of study variab...

the present study aims at recognizing and analyzing the relationship among variables such as stress, social capital, self esteem and the locus of control that affect the high school students’ quality of life in fars province, iran. to this end 224 high school students form shiraz, kazerun, and marvdasht were selected as participants based on cluster sampling. cronbach’s alpha was used to measur...