Background and Objectives: Patience and wisdom are highly respected moral virtues in Islamic culture. The former (patience) is of utmost importance in the Islamic religion and the latter (wisdom) is one of the six basic virtues both in the recent classification of positive psychologists and Islamic-Iranian culture. These moral virtues are considered important in individuals’ wellbeing and can h...

OBJECTIVES Higher conscientiousness (C) predicts better health outcomes. Recent research suggests that stress may play an important role in explaining this relationship. The current study aimed to establish whether C moderates the relationship between daily hassle appraisals, daily affect, and physical symptoms. DESIGN AND METHODS A daily diary design was used, where participants (N = 103) co...

In 1988, Andersen and Williams proposed a model to explain the stressinjury relationship. The present study tested portions of this framework by investigating frequency and severity of injury occurrence in track and field athletes from four NCAA Division I and I1 universities. Personality characteristics (locus of control and sport competition trait anxiety), history of stressors (life stress, ...

The aim of this paper is to use an integrative approach to identify the main correlates and/or predictors at different levels (personal, psychosocial, occupational and outside the workplace) of the burnout dimensions. The sample consists of 813 university professors. Results from statistical analyses show that there are, indeed, both common and specific predictors for the different facets of th...

In a cross sectional study on a purposive sample, Kumar et al.(2001) assessed the re la t ionsh ip be tween psychosocial variables, subsyndromal affective psychopathologv, and psychosocial functioning in 68 bipolar patients stabilized on prophylactic lithium. They found that higher daily hassles and life events scores were associated with higher depression ratings, while lower perceived social ...

Behavioral financial knowledge deals with the behavior of investors and other users in the capital market. According to the financial knowledge, it is no longer expected that only factors such as accounting information and macroeconomic variables will affect decision-making but also a variety of behavioral variables including manager’s optimism, information influence management, patience of maj...