objective: the current study aimed at investigating the role of patience and its components in predicting self-control among high school students in shiraz, iran. methods: the statistical population of the study included all high school students of shiraz. three hundred and thirty-two students (161 females and 171 males) were recruited via cluster sampling method. the subjects participated in t...

Money is the stuff of life; it is the medium of exchange that we use to buy food, clothes, warmth in the winter, cool in the summer, and the fuel that moves us around the planet. Of course money makes the world go ‘round, but does it, Sharp and his colleagues (2008) want to know, make bioethics go ‘round? We all agree that there are things money cannot buy – happiness, love, contentment – but a...

This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions. Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love. This new model posits that these positive emotions serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn has the effect o...

The broaden-and-build theory describes the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment and love. A key proposition is that these positive emotions broaden an individual’s momentary thought–action repertoire: joy sparks the urge to play, interest sparks the urge to explore, contentment sparks the urge to savour and integrate, and love sparks a recurri...

Purpose: The objective of our research is to examine the effects job embeddedness on contentment experience, anti-mattering, and employee sustainable performance. study also tested impact experience anti-mattering outcome variable i.e., Theoretical framework: results this indicate that has a positive effect Contentment performance, but it negative mattering. Mattering Design/methodology/approac...