OBJECTIVE To determine if psychiatric hospitalization precluded a return to occupational status in United States Air Force aviators. DESIGN A 7-yr retrospective review that joined hospitalization and occupational databases using individual identifiers. SUBJECTS From a population of over 35,000 USAF rated aviation officers present between January 1986 and December 1990, 214 were both psychia...

Emotion status influences important areas in our daily lives. Many researchers reported successful emotion classifications. The aim of this study is to find out the neurophysiological characteristics of the brain waves while affective pictures elucidate emotion. Four healthy college students volunteered the stimulus experiment with the standard IAPS affective pictures. All brain waves showed ac...

BACKGROUND One of the components of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the request to write a sentence. We investigated the relationship between the characteristics of the written sentence of the MMSE and the cognitive and affective status of elderly patients. METHODS The characteristics of the sentence were compared to the total MMSE score, sociodemographic characteristics, tests ev...

  Background: Trait anger is associated with numerous physiological and psychological problems and is a social health problem. The current study aimed to evaluate the socio-demographic and nutritional determinants of trait anger in young males. Methods: In the current study, 150 young males aged between 14-44 years were randomly selected. General information was obtained and anthropometric ass...

The current study examined age differences in affective well-being and reactivity to daily stressors among people varying in health status. Participants (N = 3,493), aged 25 to 74 years, reported global affective well-being in the Midlife Development in the United States survey, and a subset (n = 983) reported their affective reactivity to stressors across eight consecutive evenings in the Nati...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of smoking among elderly patients admitted to long-term care facilities (LTCFs) and to determine whether the degree of nicotine dependence is associated with sociodemographic variables, affective ties, motivation for smoking cessation and depression. METHODS Cross-sectional, population-based study involving 573 individuals over the age of 60, admitted to ...

Intelligent user assistance systems face challenges of incomplete, uncertain and multiple modality sensory observations, user’s changing internal state, and constraints in making decisions. We introduce a probabilistic framework to dynamically model user’s affective state with various visual cues in such systems. A systematic mechanism performs purposive and sufficing information integration to...

Low and high status member posts from online fan message board posts were examined. Low status members, as compared to high status members, were found to use more intimacy and immediacy social presence cues, including: praise for the group, self-disclosure, friendly and positive affective language, first person singular pronouns, and present tense verbs. Low status members were less likely than...