BACKGROUND Assessing the clinical effectiveness of measuring grip strength as a prognostic tool in recovering ambulation in bed-confined frail elderly patients. METHODS A prospective study was carried out with 50 elderly inpatients (mean age: 81.6 years old). Manual muscle test was used for checking strength of hip flexor muscles, hip abductor muscles and knee extensor muscles. Grip strength ...

Abstract This paper explores happiness as an aim of education, particularly schooling. What role does play in philosophy education? How do critics view the aims public schooling today and its relation to happiness? Is embedded concept education The happiness—understood inclusively a positive mental state—by examining relevant literature from various disciplines. It looks briefly at critical vie...

Although the last decade has witnessed mounting research on the development and evaluation of positive interventions, investigators still know little about the target population of such interventions: happiness seekers. The present research asked three questions about happiness seekers: 1) What are their general characteristics?, 2) What do they purposefully do to become happier?, and 3) How do...

Development does not take place in isolation and is often interrelated with close others such as marital partners. To examine interrelations in spousal happiness across midlife and old age, we used 35-year longitudinal data from both members of 178 married couples in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Latent growth curve models revealed sizeable spousal similarities not only in levels of happiness...

We model happiness as a measurement tool used to rank alternative actions. Evolution favors a happiness function that measures the individual’s success in relative terms. The optimal function, in particular, is based on a time-varying reference point –or performance benchmark –that is updated over time in a statistically optimal way in order to match the individual’s potential. Habits and peer ...

In this paper I will consider relation between political environment and happiness, advocating the view according to which democracy represents a form of social life that positively affects happiness citizens. The subject my research be analysis basic psychological assumptions about influence society cultural on subjective feeling as well arguments could support democratic system most optimal f...

BACKGROUND There is increasing research to suggest that fears of, and resistances to, affiliative and positive emotions are linked to self-criticism and a range of psychopathologies. It is unclear how these fears and resistances are linked to each other and how these in turn are linked to psychological processes, such as abilities to be mindful and recognize and describe emotions. OBJECTIVES ...