employee's happiness is related to engagement, growth of task security, job and family consent that can be resulted from characteristic and environmental factors. the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between personality characteristics with happiness and job satisfaction among employees of vali-e-asr university of rafsanjan. therefore 150 employees were selected rando...

BACKGROUND Prior research has validated the construct of a suicide crisis syndrome (SCS), a specific psychological state that precedes and may precipitate suicidal behavior. The feeling of entrapment is a central concept of the SCS as well as of several other recent models of suicide. However, its exact relationship with suicidality is not fully understood. In efforts to clarify the exact role ...

The extraction of instances of relations that are conceptually known is an important sub-task of automatic ontology population. We consider an approach that uses a local alignment kernel to learn to recognize linguistic dependency paths of these relations. This approach uses WordNet as a similarity function between concepts. We evaluate its performance by comparing it with a probabilistic appro...

MOTIVATION Chemical carcinogenicity is of primary interest, because it drives much of the current regulatory actions regarding new and existing chemicals, and its experimental determination involves time-consuming and expensive animal testing. Both academia and private companies are actively trying to develop SAR and QSAR models. This paper reviews the new Predictive Toxicology Challenge (PTC) ...

Despite its assumed importance for emotional well-being, studies investigating the positivity effect (PE) in older adults' information processing rarely tested its relationship with immediate or general affective outcome measures like emotional reactivity or emotional well-being. Moreover, the arousal level of the to-be-processed emotional stimuli has rarely been taken into account as a moderat...

BACKGROUND Burnout is recognized as an occupational hazard, and nursing has a high risk of burnout. This study aims to explore the relationship between psychological capital (PsyCap) and burnout among Chinese nurses and the mediating role of coping style in this relationship. METHODS A total of 1,496 nurses (effective response rate: 80.11%) from two large general hospitals in Daqing City of C...

The mechanisms through which current romantic relationship dysfunction develops in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms are still unclear. One possible pathway may be childhood experiences of emotional invalidation by parents, which may result in the development of poor social problem-solving skills or cognitive responses such as splitting, which impair current romant...