AIM This paper is a report of a study conducted to examine the emotional experience of caregiving by family carers of people with Huntington disease and to describe strategies they used to deal with that experience. BACKGROUND Huntington disease, commonly diagnosed in young to middle adulthood, is an inherited single gene disorder involving loss of cognitive, motor and neuropsychiatric functi...

this paper is concerned with emotional design, which can influence user experience and combine it with happiness and enjoyment. emotions have a crucial role in the human ability to understand the world. the human emotions play an important role in what people think and how they act. it can be said that, emotions influence the human behavior. today, due to the technological improvement, designin...

selecting material is one of the most important phases in product design and manufacturing process of any physical product. choosing the optimal possibility for production among vast variety of materials that are being developed in diversity and number is a very difficult, lengthy and expensive process which makes it one of the major challenges of engineers and designers. approximately always m...

Education is an effort that aims to develop a complete human being which includes three aspects, namely cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects. To be able achieve the educational goals consist of these it necessary various aspects personality, including intellectual, social, emotional. Individuals have two intelligences, thinking (intellectual intelligence) feeling (emotional intelligence...

Organizational culture has a considerable impact on investment and acceptance of a new technology system such as knowledge management and especially it can be led to success or failure of knowledge management programs in organization. According to scientific evidences, human characteristics are effective on knowledge management and the process of knowledge management by people contains their pe...

INTRODUCTION Relationships between risk-taking behavior and depressive disorders in young people are considered as a complex psychopathological problem. Previous findings showed strong correlations between substance abuse, risk-taking behavior and depressive symptoms. Nevertheless, questions remain concerning potential common factors of depression and risk-taking behavior. Besides research focu...

A new, multi-dimensional scale of emotional empathy is described. The scale consists of 30 items and was administered to 793 adolescents and adults. A principal components analysis yielded six meaningful factors. Alpha reliabilities for all scale scores were moderate to high, and the scales demonstrate significant relationships to a number of behavioral criteria. The new empathy scale measures ...

Currently, an essential point in speech synthesis is the addressing of the variability of human speech. One of the main sources of this diversity is the emotional state of the speaker. Most of the recent work in this area has been focused on the prosodic aspects of speech and on rule-based formantsynthesis experiments. Even when adopting an improved voice source, we cannot achieve a smiling hap...

Hitherto, scholars have examined the direct effects of emotional intelligence on health-related outcomes or performance. Yet, attempts to explore any interactive effects of emotional intelligence on these variables are conspicuous by their absence. Using a multi-source design (i.e., team members and supervisors, n = 57, total N = 137) and instruments with different scoring protocols (i.e., abil...