BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although sport psychology literature focuses on psychological skills use to promote proficiency, it is still puzzling that current research has focused on psychological skills use only during competition. There remains a scarcity of empirical evidence to support the timing, and content of psychological skill application during the time preceding competition. This study ex...

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of psychological intervention and psychological plus drug intervention on smoking cessation among male smokers with single chronic diseases.A total of 509 male smokers were divided into psychological group (n = 290) and psychological plus drugs (n = 219) groups according to their will. The physicians provided free individual counseling and follow-up inte...

In this longitudinal study, the relationships between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychological well-being were examined in a sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 378) via children's and parents' reports of parent-adolescent conflict. The results indicate that parent-adolescent conflict based on ratings obtained from the different sources was concurrently related to hopelessness, li...

background psychological capital with components of hope, self efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has been recently proposed to bring positive psychology to the workplace. objectives we investigated psychological capital states of employees of the tehran university of medical sciences (tums) headquarter offices in tehran, iran. materials and methods a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical...

psychological symptoms are considered as one of the aspects and consequences of cardiovascular diseases (cvds), management of which can precipitate and facilitate the process of recovery. evaluation of the psychological symptoms can increase awareness of treatment team regarding patients’ mental health, which can be beneficial for designing treatment programs (1). however, time-consuming proces...

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected the entire world, driven countries into economic, social, and political uncertainty forced quite significant changes, especially in areas such as health, work, education, social security. Social changes that are occurring a result of crisis include restructuring businesses working styles shaping work life along new-normal axis. Many ...

For the many aspects of psychological time, there are many approaches to understanding, including cultural theories, psychological studies, philosophical analyses and mathematical models. A useful approach is to assume that there are many kinds of psychological time in coexistence, and to distinguish their different cultural and meaning-based contexts, as do Yamada and Kato (2006). From a diffe...