objective: previous studies have shown that menopausal women are more likely to experience depression. however, there are few studies that investigated the cognitive mechanism that may have a role in developing depression in menopausal women. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relation between subjective evaluation of stressors and depres...

Until recently social change processes were usually studied at a macro level, focusing on social, political and economic phenomena such as changes in social institutions, political power, or economic disparities. However, such changes are not independent of individual behaviour (or vice versa). Therefore, the interrelations between social change and individual action need to be studied in more ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between level of insight and various subjective experiences for patients with schizophrenia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-four patients with schizophrenia who were discharged from our hospital were evaluated. The level of insight into their illness and various subjective experiences were evaluated at discharge. We used the Scale to Assess Unawareness of...

Affect is basic to many if not all psychological phenomena. This article examines 2 of the most fundamental properties of affective experience--valence and arousal--asking how they are related to each other on a moment to moment basis. Over the past century, 6 distinct types of relations have been suggested or implicitly presupposed in the literature. We critically review the available evidence...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to explore the subjective experience of nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy treatment among breast cancer patients and the impacts on their daily lives. METHODS A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in breast cancer patients who received chemotherapy and had experienced nausea and/or vomiting. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using...

at which “self” gets attached could change as an organism continues to interact with the environment in the context of an intentional goal, moving across different levels in the hierarchy at different times. Empirical data from studies exploring the link between sense of self and event-control (Jordan, 2003; Kumar and Srinivasan, under review) suggest that participant’s sense of self does vary ...

In this commentary, I propose a strategy for extending Evan Thompson’s argument on the existence of dreamless sleep experience. My first aim is to show that the Indian debate on reports of having slept peacefully is importantly similar to debates in scientific dream research and contemporary Western philosophy on the trustworthiness of dream reports. This analogy leads to a surprising conclusio...

User experience research in the field of human-computer interaction tries to understand how humans experience the interaction with technological artefacts. It is a young and still emerging field that exists in an area of tension. There is no consensus on how the concept of user experience should be defined or on how it should be researched. This paper focuses on two major strands of research in...

This aims of this research are to determine if the 2D:4D digit ratio is related to subjective pain experience during tattooing and to examine gender differences therein. The study involved 43 male and 28 female Polish adults recruited from two tattoo salons in Wroclaw and Leszno in Western Poland. These subjects were asked if they felt pain during their tattooing and answers were recorded as ‘Y...

With the rapid growth of streaming media applications, there has been a strong demand of Quality-of-Experience (QoE) measurement and QoE-driven video delivery technologies. While the new worldwide standard dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) provides an inter-operable solution to overcome the volatile network conditions, its complex characteristic brings new chall...