Research has demonstrated that children who experience familial sexual maltreatment are at risk for developing psychological difficulties characterized by emotional and behavioral dysregulation. Surprisingly, however, little attention has been directed toward identifying processes in emotional development that differ in maltreated and nonmaltreated children. From a developmental psychopathology...

This study examined the relationship between subject characteristics of aggressive boys and their behavioral changes during a school year. Seventy-six boys in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades were identified by their teachers as the most disruptive and aggressive in their classes. These boys were assigned to untreated control, anger-coping, anger-coping plus goal-setting treatment, and minim...

The present study tested and extended Lane and Terry (2000) conceptual model of mood-performance relationships using a large dataset from an online experiment. Methodological and theoretical advances included testing a more balanced model of pleasant and unpleasant emotions, and evaluating relationships among emotion regulation traits, states and beliefs, psychological skills use, perceptions o...

Emotional eating appears to contribute to weight gain, but the characteristics that make one vulnerable to emotional eating remain unclear. The present study examined whether two negative affect response styles, rumination and distraction, influenced palatable food intake following an anger mood induction in normal weight and obese adults. We hypothesized that higher rumination and lower distra...

abstract background: emotional intelligence as the ability to understand one and others, to communicate with people, to adapt and cope with environmental stress is defined. skills such as self-awareness, self-management, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, relationship management as a recognized are four skills methods: this descriptive cross-sectional correlation in the 92-91 school y...

abu zeyd balkhi, the iranian muslim scholar, theologian and philosopher, who lived in third and fourth hijri centuries, is the first scientist who studied the interplay between the mental hygiene or health and the body hygiene or health. he reported his findings and opinions in his book “masalih al-abdan va al-anfos”. balkhi has attributed the orders of creation and universe to the wisdom of go...

Anger has long been recognized as an integral part of pain experience [1,19]. Reviews highlight the deleterious effect of anger on social, clinical, and functional outcomes [9,22,32]. Anger has been discussed as an aversive emotional state ranging from mild irritation to fury [25], and comprising specific cognitive attributions and action tendencies [21,34]. Anecdotal and empirical data suggest...