Despite the theorized centrality of experiential avoidance in abuse-related psychopathology, empirical examinations of the relationship between childhood abuse and experiential avoidance remain limited. The present study adds to the extant literature on this relationship, providing a laboratory-based investigation of the relationships between childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, exp...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to identify the emotional labor and workplace violence status among toll collectors by assessing and comparing the same with that in workers in other service occupation. It also aimed to analyze the relationship between emotional labor and workplace violence. METHODS This study examined emotional labor and workplace violence status in 264 female toll collectors fro...

Support from a partner can play a key role in a woman's emotional adjustment to breast cancer. However, little is known about the influence of partner behaviours on a woman's sexual adjustment. This study examined the prospective relationship between baseline levels of several types of perceived partner support (instrumental, informational, emotional and negative) and psychosexual adjustment (s...

Animal studies suggest a relationship between blunted HPA-axis stress reactivity and increased stress-induced food intake in chronically stressed animals. Such a relationship can potentially explain the underlying mechanisms of emotional eating in humans. However, no studies have experimentally tested the relationship between stress-induced cortisol responses and acute food intake in high and l...

Mandell and Pherwani (2003) found a significant, predictive relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. Replicating their study in a manufacturing setting, we examine the possible relationships between leadership, emotional intelligence, gender and organizational outcomes. Our results affirm the previously reported relationship between gender and leadership; however, we are unab...

The main aim of this study was to examine the relationship of emotional instability with illness worry and perceived limitations due to chest pain, and investigate to what degree any associations are mediated by the following chest pain-related coping styles: acceptance, seeking emotional support, seeking instrumental support, and avoidance. Self-reported measures from 94 participants with non-...

emotional intelligence is one of the most important concepts introduced to psychology and management in the last decade. the purposes of this study were to determine the effect of labor's emotional intelligence on job satisfaction, job performance and commitment in fars province industries in iran. the population from which we drew our sample consisted of employees employed in fars province in...

Scholars and practitioners of public and nonprofit management share an interest in understanding the outcomes of the increasingly studied but little understood process called collaboration. That interdependence is the fundamental nature of organizations is nothing new. Resource dependency theory has asserted this reality for a long time That interdependence characterizes collaboration is also h...

emotions and the intelligence dominant over them play an important role in interpersonal situations. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on team effectiveness. the population consisted of those sport teams participating in the 11th sports olympiad (2012) (n=1952). 322 athletes were selected according to morgan table. emotional intelligence questionnaire (sy...