Psychological well-being is traditionally considered in the contextof problem of quality life as its subjective component, thesystemic a person, which it acquires process oflife; generalized and relatively stable experience, particularimportance for individual; person’s own attitude to hispersonality, processes that are important him termsof learned normative ideas about external internal envir...

Success and failure in competitive activities are significant situations that affect the psychological state of athletes. The aim scientific research was to study relationship between success with states behavior biathlon involved 20 active biathlete athletes aged from 18 years, 10 boys girls, their skill levels 1st category masters sports. results were analyzed taking into account gender diffe...

OBJECTIVE Health risk appraisal is often utilized to modify individual's health behavior, especially concerning disease prevention, and web-based health risk appraisal services are being provided to the general public in Korea. However, little is known about the psychological effect of the health risk appraisal even though poorly communicated information by the web-based service may result in u...

The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation of perceived stress with selected physiological and psychological factors in an HIV-infected, predominantly African American population and to assess the multivariable effects on perceived stress. The variables that correlated significantly with perceived stress were entered into a backward stepwise regression model. Pearson's r analysi...

Driving tendency is the comprehensive embodiment of driver’s physiological and psychological characteristics. It reflects driver’s psychological condition during the process of driving. Identification of the driving tendency has great significance to researching of the driver assistant system, especially the active security warning system. In this paper, data from simulative driving and real dr...

BACKGROUND Psychological processes in bipolar disorder are of both clinical and theoretical importance. AIMS To examine depressogenic psychological processes and reward responsivity in relation to different mood episodes (mania, depression, remission) and bipolar symptomatology. METHOD One hundred and seven individuals with bipolar disorder (34 in a manic/hypomanic or mixed affective state;...

This study aimed to investigate the situational and stable psychological characteristics of free diving athletes. Specifically, stress level, state and trait anxiety, positive and negative affectivity, ways of coping with stress and locus of control among the free diving athletes were studied. 36 were free diving athletes and 41 non-athletes participated in the study. The situational and stable...

Dyspnoea affects a multitude of patients with a multitude of diseases, and therefore concerns a multitude of physicians and other healthcare professionals. In view of the physical and psychological distress associated with dyspnoea, and in view of the pervasive impact of dyspnoea on the patient’s psychological state and social life [1, 2], relieving dyspnoea should constitute a leading and univ...

Richard E. Petty received his B.A. from the University ofVirginia in 1973 and his doctorate in social psychology from Ohio State University in 1977. In 1987, he left his position as Middlebush Professor at the University of Missouri to return to Ohio State where he won the University Distinguished Scholar Award in 1994. He is the author of seven books and over 150 journal articles and chapters....