The purpose of the present study was to investigate basic methodological issues related to the usage of an examination stress protocol in studies of psychoneuroendocrinology. In the present study, 57 undergraduate students served as participants. All subjects provided salivary samples and completed psychological inventories during a low examination stress period and again during a high examinat...

The purpose of this study was to determine if children with warm social contact with their parents (noncaretaking functions) are more responsive to social reinforcement than are children who are deprived of such contact.Data was gathered from interviews with mothers, who described the amount and quality of both parents' contact with the child. The sample of middle class children, 13 girls and 1...

OBJECTIVE The present study examines the effect of having a child infected with HIV on the mother-child relationship. The study also examines how the mother's social axioms, psychological distress, and relationships with her partner affect her parenting of the child infected with HIV. METHOD The study was conducted in Kazakhstan in the wake of a children's HIV epidemic. Mothers of children in...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that perceived stress in adolescence is socially patterned, but that this relationship may depend on the measure of socioeconomic status (SES) used. This study examines if social gradients in perceived stress, negative life events, and coping exist amongst Danish adolescents, and, if life events and coping strategies can partly account for an association be...

This empirical study investigated three mechanisms of protection (preventive, compensatory, buffering) for two factors (emotional social support, sense of personal control) in the relationship between exposure to community violence and psychological distress among 947 diverse, older adolescents. Findings indicate that social support and sense of personal control do provide protection; however, ...

An elite athlete is a rare combination of talent, hard work and the right psychological profile. In sports today, everyone knows the best training methods, has access to the best facilities and most nutritional foods. Often the difference between the good and the elite is the mental qualities of the athletes. The focus of this paper is on three psychological characteristics athletes: confidence...

Forty noninstitutionalized epileptics were matched with 40 physically handicapped Ss individuals. A representative battery of psychological tests was administered to both groups. The epileptics and handicapped subjects were compared on 42 variables by batteries of psychological tests, 14 of which proved significant. When the significant predictors were intercorrelated and a Wherry-Doolittle mul...

INTRODUCTION It has been generally thought that the practice of bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, sadism-masochism (BDSM) is in some form associated with psychopathology. However, several more recent studies suggest a relative good psychological health of BDSM practitioners. AIM The aim of this study was to compare scores of BDSM practitioners and a control group on various fundamenta...

background: psychological characteristics affect the quality of life. this study aimed at determining the relationship between personal characteristics, internal locus of control , psychological hardiness and nurses’ quality of life. methods: in this correlation study, 297 nurses were selected based on curgesy and morgan table via multistage cluster sampling among 1023 nurses of the public hosp...