Reconciling sexual orientation with religious and spiritual beliefs can be challenging for Christian homosexuals, since many Christian churches teach that homosexual behavior is sinful. A qualitative study of 10 male and 10 female Christian homosexuals was conducted via semistructured interviews. This article seeks to explore the potential conflict between Christianity and homosexuality faced b...

The Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ-25) was developed by Lerner and colleagues (Lerner et al 2001). It is one of the most commonly used questionnaires to evaluate at-work disability and productivity loss. It contains 25 items arranged under four subscales addressing four dimensions of job demands namely: time demands, physical demands, mental/interpersonal demands, and output demands. The t...

To investigate whether giftedness might be misdiagnosed as ADHD, 71 gifted adolescents attending a summer residential camp were administered the Conners’ ADHD/DSM-IV Scales – Adolescent (Conners, 1997) and the Overexcitabilities Questionnaire – Two (OEQ-II, Falk et al., 1999). This sample yielded clinically significant scores at a rate more frequent than the national average of three to seven p...

Research on subjective wellbeing typically assumes that responses to survey questions are comparable across respondents and time. Unfortunately, if this assumption is violated, standard methods in empirical research may mislead. I address concern with three contributions. First, give a theoretical analysis of the extent direction bias results from violations assumption. Second, propose use resp...

Time inconsistency is prevalent in dynamic choice problems: a plan of actions to be taken the future that optimal for an agent today may not same future. If aware this intrapersonal conflict but unable commit herself following today, rational strategy her reconcile with selves, namely correctly anticipate and then act accordingly. Such named intra-personal equilibrium has been studied since as ...

BACKGROUND With regard to large number of mobile users especially among college students in Iran, addiction to mobile phone is attracting increasing concern. There is an urgent need for reliable and valid instrument to measure this phenomenon. This study examines validity and reliability of the Persian version of mobile phone addiction scale (MPAIS) in college students. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Primary care (PC) patients have difficulties in committing to and incorporating primary prevention and health promotion (PP&HP) activities into their long-term care. We aimed to re-interpret, for the first time, qualitative findings regarding factors affecting PC patients' acceptance of PP&HP activities. METHODS AND FINDINGS A meta-ethnographic synthesis was generated following ele...

A common view of consciousness is that our mind presents emotions, experiences, and images in an internal mental (re-)presentation space which in a state of wakefulness is triggered by the world outside. Consciousness can be defined as the observation of this inner mental space. We propose a new model, in which the state of the conscious observer is defined by the observer's mental position and...

Professional competence in the job needs a serious attention as the last decade has seen an increase in the number of industries like the IT Sectors, Retail, Travel, Transport, Financial Services, Hospitality, Beauty and Health care. Even though job opportunities have increased to considerable extent in recent years, it is difficult to find a suitable candidate and this merely indicates that we...