objective: the purposes of this study were to examine the relationships between personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation strategies and impulsive behaviors of borderline personality disorder, and to explore which personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation strategies can better predict and explain the impulsive behaviors in borderline personality disorder. methods: this study wa...

politeness is a phenomenon which is common to all cultures. each culture has a different perception of what is polite and each language has various devices for expressing politeness. one of the important aspects of politeness which is the central focus of many studies is the polite behaviors of men and women. the focus of this study is on the politeness strategies of males and females from diff...

background: auditory rehabilitation isone of the important tasks of speech-language pathologists. so, it is necessary to know auditory behaviors in order to make some decisions about the children with hearing loss such as determining the effectiveness of the current rehabilitation programs and/or devices. the auditory behavior in everyday life (abel) questionnaire is a valid and reliable assess...

school is the first social institution which affects adolescents' lives, and it determines their opportunities, life quality and behavior. thus, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between students' bonds with their school and multiple health risk behaviors amongst high school students in kerman city, iran.in this cross-sectional study, high school students of all levels par...

background: intravenous drug users (ivdus) who share needles/syringes and practice sexual behaviors, are the most important group in the transmission of blood-borne infection diseases such as hepatitis c virus (hcv). therefore identification of prevalent high-risky behaviors among ivdus to detect the most route of transmission among them is essential to develop harm reduction programs among ivd...

This chapter defines health behaviors as any activity undertaken for the purpose of preventing or detecting disease or for improving health and well being. Common ways of classifying different health behaviors (e.g., health enhancing, health impairing) are examined. Prevalence of key health behaviors (smoking, diet, exercise, screening, sexual behaviors, alcohol use) in different groups and the...

The present study examines the applicability of Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action to the prediction and understanding of how primiparous and multiparous mothers intended to feed their infants and how they actually fed these infants during the 6 weeks following delivery. Measures of attitudes to behavior, subjective norms, and behavioral intentions were taken during the last trimest...

Amphibians often feed on beetle larvae, including those of ground beetles (Carabidae). Preliminary reports have detailed an unusual trophic interaction in which, in contrast, larvae of the ground beetle Epomis prey upon juvenile and adult amphibians. While it is known that these larvae feed exclusively on amphibians, how the predator-prey encounter occurs to the advantage of the beetle larvae h...

Children under 6 years of age are one of the key groups for interventions establishing lifelong nutritional behaviors that will promote health and prevent obesity. Adults in young children's social environments play important roles in encouraging healthy nutritional behaviors. Parents, childcare providers, and teachers must teach children healthy eating behaviors in age-appropriate and applicab...