Whether emotion is universal or social is a recurrent issue in the history of emotion study among psychologists. Some researchers view emotion as a universal construct, and that a large part of emotional experience is biologically based. However, emotion is not only biologically determined, but is also influenced by the environment. Therefore, cultural differences exist in some aspects of emoti...

Previous research has documented that body dissatisfaction is positively related to social anxiety. However, little known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relation. Based on person-environment interaction theory, study aimed examine chain mediation effect of feeling inferiority family cohesion in relationship between anxiety among adolescents whether process was mod...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain the effects of parent-adolescent acculturation gaps, perceived discrimination, and perceived negative context of reception on adolescent cigarette smoking, alcohol use, sexual activity, and sexual risk taking. We used an expanded, multidimensional model of acculturation. METHOD A sample of 302 recently immigrated parent-adolescent dyads (152 from Miami and 150 from Los...

Physical inactivity has been recognized as one of the leading risk factors that account for many non-communicable diseases, with World Health Organization labeling it fourth factor global mortality. This led researchers and developers to create fitness apps support motivate people engage in physical activity more regularly. However, there is limited research on how collectivist individualist us...

I n both the policy and academic literatures, the issue of extending patient choice in the UK National Health Service (NHS) is currently a much discussed issue. From December 2005—for example, general practitioners (GPs) will be required to offer patients needing elective surgery the choice of five providers at the point of referral. Choice is often thought of as an intrinsically good thing; th...

This study is an attempt to investigate the difference in intercultural competence between collectivist and individualistic Iranian EFL teachers. To this end, researcher administered ICC questionnaire collectivists collect data from After two months of collection, 106 teachers responded items both questionnaires. The were analyzed through running independent samples t tests find collectivists/ ...

This article presents a psychological the effects of workplace rudeness on workers' and occupational wellbeing. It was discovered that mental health job satisfaction somewhat moderated personal factors. study looked at positive negative behavioural outcomes university teachers in Pakistan experienced due to incivility. Data were collected from 10 qualitative method by phenomenological approach ...