the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

mental stress and daily crises comprise a part of physical and mental threats. perceived stress is a physical and mental threat, as well. perceived stress is a psychological process during which the individual considers his/ her physical and psychological welfare as being threatened. since idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is one of the chronic diseases being able to affect patients' pe...

Previous studies have shown that weight stigma and bullying can have detrimental effects on a person’s psychological well-being. Depression, self-esteem, loneliness, and perceived stress were measured as a result of personal experiences with bullying, specifically concerning weight stigma and weight based bullying, in comparison to other forms of bullying (e.g., being shy, having freckles). Uni...

OBJECTIVE To assess participation and health-related quality of life in adults with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy, and explore associations with self-efficacy. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A sample of 56 adults with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (mean age 36.4 (standard deviation 5.8) years; 62% male). METHODS Daily activities and social participation (Life Habits 3.0), he...

background: somatic signs, perceived stress and self-efficacy are differ in smoker and non-smoker students. the purpose of present study was investigating the somatic symptoms, perceived stress and self-efficacy in smoker and non-smoker students. methods: 200 volunteer students, 100 smokers and 100 non-smokers, were selected and completed the somatic signs checklist, perceived stress and self-e...

INTRODUCTION Social support is defined as perception of how other people take care of us, how they understand our needs and give us support. Social support has positive influence on health, adoption of healthy lifestyles and recovery from illness. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to detect the level of social support across different socio-demographic groups and to analyze relationship betw...

OBJECTIVE Self-perception of changes in body fat among HIV+ persons is associated with decreased health related quality of life in cross-sectional studies. The longitudinal impact of body fat changes on health related quality of life, while accounting for comorbidity and anatomic location or severity of body fat changes, is unknown. DESIGN This was a longitudinal analysis of HIV+ and HIV- Mul...

The goal of the current analyses was to explore associations self-rated physical attractiveness with facets psychological well-being across adolescence. Participants provided information on their perceived attractiveness, internalized distress, suicidal ideation, and self-harm at 15, 17 20 years age. Male adolescents repeatedly higher ratings own in comparison female peers. Self-perceived negat...