Results of a survey of 222 detainees in Dutch jails and police stations showed that outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with high self-esteem were more strongly related to outcome considerations than to procedural considerations, whereas outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with low self-esteem were more strongly related to procedural considerations than to outcome considerations. I...

AIM To investigate (i) whether loneliness increases in old age, and if so, whether it relates to ageing itself, to time trends or to cohort effects and (ii) the relationship between changes in institutionalization, partner status and health and loneliness. METHODS 939 men born between 1900 and 1920 completed the De Jong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale, and answered questions about their partner sta...

self-incompatibility in almond and prunus species is an important genetic trait that prevents self-fertilization. self-incompatibility in almond is controlled gametophytically by the multiallelic s-locus. this study was done in order to identification and preliminary selection of self-compatible progenies resulted from controlled crosses in almond using specific primer sff-sfr.some important mo...

Unfortunately just a few number of children and adolescents use sufficient amounts of fruit and vegetables. This study aimed to investigate the association between fruit and vegetables consumption and perceived self-efficacy, outcome expectations and outcome evaluation in adolescent girls in Shahrekord city.This is a descriptive analytic study conducted on 308 high school girls (first grade) wh...

The purpose of the current research is evaluating performance of SAMA schools of 4th district of Islamic Azad University based on the organizational excellence model of European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) for quality management from viewpoints of staff and managers. The research is applied and has a descriptive-survey method. Using a stratified random sampling, 100 respondents wer...

BACKGROUND This research examines student evaluations of their experience and attitudes in an 11 week mind-body skills course for first year medical students. AIMS The aim is to understand the impact of this course on students' self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-care as part of their medical education experience. METHODS This study uses a qualitative content analysis approach to data...

People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. ...

This article provides an introduction to the measurement of quality of life or subjective health status. It considers difficulties in defining the concept and the uses of subjective health status measures and describes common approaches to measurement. The criteria used to select a measure for inclusion in a study are summarised and some of the more commonly used measures are described.

The authors address 2 questions about embarrassment. First, Is embarrassment a distinct emotion? The evidence indicates that the antecedents, experience, and display of embarrassment, and to a limited extent its autonomic physiology, are distinct from shame, guilt, and amusement and share the dynamic, temporal characteristics of emotion. Second, What are the theoretical accounts of embarrassmen...