this study aimed to determine the relationship between lifestyle and health locus of control with happiness in college students. this study was descriptive within the framework of a correlation prediction plan. the sample consisted of 331 undergraduate students of talesh pnu (246 females and 85 males) 1393-94 academic years who were selected randomly and completed lifestyle questionnaire, healt...

AIMS Video games provide opportunities for positive psychological experiences such as flow-like phenomena during play and general happiness that could be associated with gaming achievements. However, research has shown that specific features of game play may be associated with problematic behaviour associated with addiction-like experiences. The study was aimed at analysing whether certain stru...

IMPORTANCE Dry eye disease has become an important health problem. A lack of concordance between self-reported symptoms and the outcome of dry eye examinations has raised questions about dry eye disease. OBJECTIVE To explore the association between subjective happiness and objective and subjective symptoms of dry eye disease. DESIGN The study adopted a cross-sectional design. SETTING All ...

Dehydrosoyasaponin-I (DHS-I) is a potent activator of high-conductance, calcium-activated potassium (maxi-K) channels. Interaction of DHS-I with maxi-K channels from bovine aortic smooth muscle was studied after incorporating single channels into planar lipid bilayers. Nanomolar amounts of intracellular DHS-I caused the appearance of discrete episodes of high channel open probability interrupte...

JMD Dropped head syndrome (DHS) is commonly observed in patients with parkinsonism, including those with multiple system atrophy and Parkinson's disease (PD). In PD, DHS is aggravated during off period or develops after the introduction of do-pamine agonists (DAs). 1 Although DHS is considered as dystonia by some authors, clinical and laboratory findings supporting this view remain controversia...

The main objective of this study is to examine the role which social intelligence has in happiness. Two hundred and forty nine university students (130 females/119 males) participated in the study. The Turkish Version of the Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS-TR) and The Turkish Version of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short-Form (OHQ-SF) have been used as data acquisition tools. Pears...

Negative schizotypal traits may be related to anhedonia and/or amotivation; however it is unclear which of these symptoms is related to negative schizotypy to a greater extent. Moreover, the impact of schizotypal traits on overall subjective well-being remains uncertain. The present study examined these two questions in a non-clinical sample assessed for schizotypal traits (n = 138). Schizotypa...

Happiness is rising on the political agenda and this calls for measures of how well nations perform in creating great happiness for a great number, analogous to measures of success in creating wealth, such as GDP. Happiness is defined as subjective enjoyment of one’s life as-a-whole and this can be measured using self-reports. Question on happiness are currently used in large scale surveys of t...