Background: To identify the relation(s) of personality characteristics and psychological well-being in infertile women and also well-being prognosis according to the personality characteristics. Materials and Methods: 240 women who had been diagnosed with infertility and who were undergoing fertility treatment at private infertility clinic (Navid Institute), Tehran, Iran participated in the stu...

BACKGROUND The Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation--Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) is a 34-item instrument developed to monitor clinically significant change in out-patients. The CORE-OM covers four domains: well-being, problems/symptoms, functioning and risk, and sums up in two total scores: the mean of All items, and the mean of All non-risk items. The aim of this study was to examine the psyc...

Species traits may influence rates of speciation and extinction, affecting both the patterns of diversification among lineages and the distribution of traits among species. Existing likelihood approaches for detecting differential diversification require complete phylogenies; that is, every extant species must be present in a well-resolved phylogeny. We developed 2 likelihood methods that can b...

The present study examines stress among parents of children with intellectual disability. 102 parents formed the sample of this study, 30 of whom had children without disability. A stress assessment test with internal validity of 0.608 was utilised. This test has two parts: physical and mental, former with 19 items and latter with 21 items. T test was applied to check differences in stress, gen...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of an environmental stressor, examination stress, on waking cortisol levels. METHODS Sixty-two subjects were tested upon awakening during periods of low and high examination stress. Samples were collected on 4 sampling days total, two of these days were during a low examination period and two of these days were during a hig...