BACKGROUND Aging is a universal phenomenon that will present itself as a dominant social and welfare challenge. AIM This study was to examine life satisfaction among people residing in Gorgan and its correlation with certain demographic factors in 2013. METHODS A total of 250 elder people were selected for the study through the convenience sampling during 4 months. Data collected through li...

OBJECTIVES The present study examined the extent to which daily stressor severity and appraisals of the stressors accounted for socioeconomic disparities in health. METHODS Data from the National Study of Daily Experiences and the Midlife in the United States Survey were combined for the current analyses, resulting in 1,031 respondents who reported on 7,229 days. RESULTS Respondents without...

Creativity is the process of developing original novel and yet appropriate response to a problem. As the creativity can be expressed in a variety of ways, the individual differences can also be expressed in other areas such as planning, forecasting, decision making and communication. The present study was caried out to find out relation of intelligence and self-concept with diffeferent dimensio...

Recent research has demonstrated the malleability of self-views to subtle situational influence but has not uncovered features of the self-concept representation that make it susceptible to such change. Using research on attitude ambivalence as a foundation, the current article predicted that the self would be most likely to respond to a subtle change induction when the targeted self-beliefs we...

BACKGROUND Both construction and psychometric characteristics of a self-concept scale associated with observable behaviors by students and teacher, useful to guide a pedagogic intervention in the classroom are presented. METHOD A total of 1,385 primary school students, aged between 8 and 12 years, from 24 high-social vulnerability schools of the Province of Concepción, Chile, participated in ...

Self-concept consistency is viewed as central to authenticity and adjustment in Western cultures. The authors propose that the implications of self-concept consistency depend on both the cultural background of the individual and the type of consistency involved. Specifically, although consistency of the self-concept across different contexts may be less important in East Asian than Western cult...

(2013). Can I master it and does it matter? An intraindividual analysis on control-value antecedents of trait and state academic emotions. (submitted). What students think they feel differs from what they really feel-Academic self-concept moderates the discrepancy between students' trait and state emotional self-reports. (2012, July). What students think they feel is different from what they re...

A new chronometric procedure, the Implicit Association Procedure (IAP), was adapted to assess the implicit personality self-concept of shyness. A sample of 300 participants completed a shyness-inducing role play and, before or after the role play, a shyness IAP, a shyness Implicit Association Test (IAT), and direct self-ratings. The experimental group was instructed to fake nonshyness. The cont...

Nawas and Platt (5) recently presented a testable model of homesickness based on: (a) Zwingmann's(9) suggestion that the past, as opposed to the future, has been overemphasized in research on homesickness, and (b) Adler's insistence upon the importance of the future in the individual's mental life (I, pp. 87-93). This model was presented as an alternative to the current pastand present-oriented...