The present study examined the relationships between four personality traits, humor styles, and happiness. Replicating previous research, happiness was positively correlated with four personality traits: extraversion, locus of control, self-esteem, and optimism. Further, happiness positively related to self-enhancing and affiliative humor styles; it related negatively to self-defeating and aggr...

To explore the relationship of Internet addiction, coping styles, stressful life events and internalizing problems in overweight/obese adolescents, this research surveyed 1438 middle school students among which 245 overweight and obesity (non-clinical cases) were screened based on the body mass index (BMI) percentile criteria of Working Group on Obesity in China (WGOC) by a series of questionna...

educators have been preoccupied with individual differences in learning for quite a long time. one way of addressing these differences has been a focus on learning styles. understanding students’ learning styles is important for the quality of instructional design. a major problem in measuring the learning styles of learners of english as a foreign language (efl) is the development of a valid a...

Background & aim: The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between stress coping styles and quality of life (QOL) among patients with breast cancer. Methods:This descriptive correlational study was conducted on 50 patients with breast cancer, selected via convenience sampling in Kerman, Iran. To collect data Stress Coping Strategy Scale (Moss and Billings, 1982) and t...

Research Paper Purpose Drawing from S-D logic this paper builds on the proposition of customers as resource integrators, identifying six styles of customer co-creation, and linking customer cocreation styles to outcomes. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical framework is proposed linking customer co-creation styles to outcomes. The research is based on twenty in-depth interviews and four fo...

The goals of the present research were to develop a modified version of an existing self-assessment questionnaire designed to measure parents’ emotional style and to examine how the aspects of child regulation may moderate the relation between the emotional styles and social outcomes in childhood. Participants in Study 1 were 140 mothers and children (73 males, 67 females, Mage = 56.0 months). ...

conclusions the results showed that the early relationship within the family environment supports a certain attachment style and the effects of the avoidant insecure and ambivalent insecure styles affect the interpersonal relations of the couples in adulthood. the effect of attachment styles on interpersonal relations is far greater than that of lifestyle. results the results indicate that atta...