This study aimed to analyse the relationships between the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, motivation and satisfaction in physical education classes, as well as to examine these relationships by gender. Eight hundred and fifty-four secondary school students (405 boys and 453 girls, aged 15 to 21 years) participated in this study by responding to questionnaires designed to measure the ...

Background Human speech is the wonderful gift given to human being by God for communicating their ideas, needs and feelings. But an inability to speak, no matter temporary can be catastrophic for the patients in tertiary care. Some patients in tertiary care units may be communication compromised due to various reasons. A quasi experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of vi...

introduction: this study was conducted in order to determine the relationship between attachment to god with marital satisfaction and mental health in parents of children with special needs. method: a total of 372 parents (186 fathers, 186 mothers) of blind, deaf and educable children with mental retardation were selected through stratified random sampling using the method of proportional alloc...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is associated with increased stress in families and has its own impact on the relationship between members of the family. Among couples, if one of them suffers from chronic pain, this may influence marital satisfaction in both of them and given the importance of marital satisfaction in the prediction of successful treatment outcome, it is important to investigate pain an...

     There are several reasons for usage of music and musical activities. Music is part of artistic activities of human beings. Perhaps people are exposed to music more than other artistic works in their daily lives. Due to the necessity of considering music as a part of human identity, we tried to study the amount of music used by young people in Zanjan based on four hypothesis: cultural li...

Considering the effect of implicit motives, the current study examined the link between well-being in important life domains, that is, job and relationship, and the satisfaction of needs as proposed by self-determination theory. Data on domain-specific well-being, satisfaction of needs for competence and relatedness, and the implicit achievement and affiliation motives were assessed from 259 Ge...

The Internet provides an easily accessible way to meet certain needs. Over-reliance on it leads to problematic use, which studies show can be predicted by psychological distress. Self-determination theory proposes that we all have the basic need for autonomy, competency, and relatedness. This has been shown to explain the motivations behind problematic Internet use. This study hypothesizes that...

AIM To investigate the health service experiences and needs of parents in the period around diagnosis of ophthalmic disorders in their children. METHODS Parents of children newly diagnosed with visual impairment and/or ophthalmic disorders at a tertiary level hospital in London participated in a questionnaire survey, using standard instruments, followed by in-depth individual interviews, to e...