the objective of this session is to identify that how films, movies and tv series can affect on anxiety level of the audiences. in this session, actors, directors, and psychologists are going to discuss about the role of tv series, films and their contents on decreasing or increasing of anxiety and the importance of “identification” between audiences and actors or actresses.

background: temporomandibular joint is one of the most complicated joints of the body and plays an important role in the head and neck system. one of the factors affecting the temporomandibular joint and lead to temporomandibular disorder is anxiety with all the events causing it. the aim of this study was to determine a relationship between anxiety and temporomandibular disorders. materials an...

results mean age of the participants was about 35 years, and mean duration of marriage was 14 years. drug dependence of the husband (p = 0.010) and lower monthly income of the family (p = 0.007) predicted the higher level of anxiety among the participants, while older age (p = 0.031), shorter marital duration (p = 0.016), and lower educational level (p = 0.045) in addition to spousal drug depen...

anxiety and depression could reduce the quality of life, and exacerbate physical symptoms and even mortality amongst patients with coronary heart disease (chd). the aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of anxiety and depression in patients with acute chd. in a period from march to december 2008, the views of 108 chd patients, hospitalized in a tertiary hospital, were solicited usi...

Dual competition framework (DCF) posits that low-level threat may facilitate behavioral performance by influencing executive control functions. Anxiety is thought to strengthen this effect by enhancing threat's affective significance. To test these ideas directly, we examined the effects of low-level threat and experimentally induced anxiety on one executive control function, the efficiency of ...

The aim of the study was to determine the level of anxiety and depression in patients with and without burning mouth syndrome, and to assess the possible association between the intensity of burning mouth and incidence of depression and anxiety. The study was conducted in a sample of 120 randomly chosen adult patients from two dentist offices in Nova Gradiska (Croatia). Patient data were collec...

With the aim of validating the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory on a population of young Croatian volleyball players, 286 examinees, 106 male and 180 female volleyball players (average age of 16.09+/-1.83), filled out the CSAI-2, constructed by Martens, Vealey, Burton, Bump and Smith (1990)1. Given the fact that all scales of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory have good homogeneity, rel...

Anxiety is a feeling of worry and excessive concern against obscure danger about inner or outer threat, which occur in form of ambiguous fear. It finally causes physical problem and impairs social and occupational functions. Anxiety is the most common mental disorder. Nursing totally is a difficult job and because of their working environmental and activity, they always encountering with damage...