BACKGROUND Job related affective well-being is important for a healthy life and job satisfaction for all individuals, including physicians. The later group, however, is most often compromised. OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate a group of Turkish primary health care physicians' job related emotional perceptions and to assess their reactions in terms of stress, anxiety and depression. METHOD...

CONTEXT Although pregnancy ambivalence is consistently associated with poorer contraceptive use, little is known about the sexual, social and emotional dynamics at work in pregnancy ambivalence. METHODS During in-depth sexual and reproductive history interviews conducted in 2003, 36 women and men were asked about the relational and emotional circumstances surrounding each pregnancy, as well a...

Now that consumers expect everything they buy to be both functional and easy to use, designers need to think seriously about the pleasure their designs bring to users. The services and products with which we surround ourselves are potential sources of pleasure. They should be designed with a view to how they can provide pleasure to those who use and experience them. This study discussed the imp...

Beauty has received sparse attention from emotion theorists, some of whom have argued that aesthetic pleasure is cognitive in nature and too “disinterested” to be emotional. This view is supported by research suggesting that aesthetic pleasure is based on processing fluency. The authors review recent findings in the psychology of aesthetics and present two arguments. First, processing fluency e...

Title of Dissertation: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO TELEVISED SPORTS VIOLENCE: A TEST OF SENSATION SEEKING THEORY Shu-Chen Lee, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Bradley D. Hatfield Department of Kinesiology Purpose: To test sensation-seeking theory as an explanation for individual differences in emotional and physiological resp...

In the mid eighteenth century, Enlightenment debates about women's social role prompted a flurry of discussions about motherhood. Advice manuals, images of mothers, and women's personal writings highlighted breastfeeding as one of the most important maternal duties. This thesis argues that by the end of the eighteenth century advice manuals developed a new focus on the emotional and physical pl...

This paper introduces a conceptual model for the process underlying emotional responses that result from the perception of consumer products. The model distinguishes different kinds of emotions on the basis of eliciting conditions. It is based on the presumption that all emotional reactions result from an appraisal process in which the individual appraises the product as favouring or harming on...

Virtual engagement of lives has been made possible with the advent social media. Almost 80% day are spent virtually on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, etc. Usage media to connect and communicate ones we care about is always healthy, termed as networking. Social dysfunction occurs when constant communication leads point where our real or offline life gets replaced by virtual onl...