This study evaluated Children's Friendship Training (CFT), a manualized parent-assisted intervention to improve social skills among second to fifth grade children with autism spectrum disorders. Comparison was made with a delayed treatment control group (DTC). Targeted skills included conversational skills, peer entry skills, developing friendship networks, good sportsmanship, good host behavio...

This study examines the efficacy of a manualized parent-assisted social skills intervention in comparison with a matched Delayed Treatment Control group to improve friendship quality and social skills among teens 13-17 years of age with autism spectrum disorders. Targeted skills included conversational skills, peer entry and exiting skills, developing friendship networks, good sportsmanship, go...

This study was carried out to determine and reveal the contribution of martial arts mental health such as sportsmanship happiness well physical health. The present study, conducted with participation Taekwondo kickboxing branch sportsmen, aims examine relationship between happiness. population consists licensed taekwondo while sample group 198 166 kickbox players, selected by sampling method, w...

I read ‘The secret ways of scientists’ with much interest and in principle I closely share the view expressed there. However, I am rather suspicious that such a view no longer reflects the truth. It appears to me that the tendency among scientists to start their own biotech companies may lead to a corruption of values and create a rather strange mixture of attitudes. The editorial states that ‘...

This study aims to examine whether organizational commitment and job satisfaction have mediating roles in the effect of career on citizenship behavior. The was carried out white-collar workers who were chosen through convenience sampling from private sector companies operating ?zmir/Kemalpa?a Organized Industrial Zone, Turkey. data 308 employees analyzed via structural equation modeling techniq...