Abstract This article studies the relationship between patience and comparative development through a combination of reduced-form analyses model estimations. Based on globally representative dataset time preference in 76 countries, we document two sets stylized facts. First, is strongly correlated with per capita income accumulation physical capital, human productivity. These correlations hold ...

State driver stress was measured in both low and high traffic congestion using cellular telephones. The contributions of time urgency, trait driver stress, and hassles were also examined. Drivers showed substantially more state driver stress under high than low congestion. Time urgency made a significant positive contribution to state driver stress at both congestion levels. Trait driver stress...

Work, school, relationships, and daily hassles can often serve as sources of stress, known as stressors. Before you think about stress reduction, it may be most useful to start by identifying the particular stressors in your work. What, specifically, is it about your work situation that makes you feel anxious, angry, frustrated, burned out, depressed, moody, and so on? When you come up with you...

Fasting effects on health and well-being. Although this effects were studied based on biological view, however there is a different view based on our Islamic teachings. Fasting is related to human virtues such as piety and cautious. These virtues are related to others characteristics in Islamic view which show the holistic view of Islam on health. In order to answer this question refer to Holy ...

Stressful life events and negative mood have been associated with elevated blood glucose and poor self-care in individuals with diabetes. The purpose of this controlled study was to determine the effect of mood state, specifically depression, anxiety, and daily hassles on the outcome of biofeedback assisted relaxation in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Eighteen subjects completed the study...

Introduction. This reported study is a part of a larger project. The research objective considered in the present paper is information behaviour and everyday hassles among youth in Taiwan. Method. The sample consisted of 133 children, including sixty-five girls and sixty-eight boys, in fifthand sixth-grade classrooms in a public elementary school in an urban community in Taiwan. This study empl...