This study was conducted with 62 Mexican-American migrant farm workers at four different sites in northern Illinois. An established English and a newly developed pilot Spanish version of the health-promoting lifestyle profile was used. The concept of health-promoting lifestyle appeared to be culturally relevant to study participants. English-speaking migrant workers scored significantly lower t...

Self-actualization profiles were plotted for 265 college-age able-bodied male athletes and 30 elite cerebral palsied male athletes, M age = 24.9, all of whom were international competitors. These profies were examined in relation to one another and in relation to two normative groups, one consisting of adults and one consisting of college students. Results indicated that collegeage able-bodied ...

In an experiment on 6 young adults advance (precued) information of the correct choice response was utilized completely: (a) For precue-to-stimulus intervals (PSIs) clearly shorter than the difference between mean choice and simple reaction time (RT), median response latency (L) measured from precue onset was invariant; (b) For clearly longer PSIs, median RT was very near the value for simple R...

We propose two fundamentally different motives for helping: gaining pleasure and fulfilling one’s duty (‘‘pressure’’). Using the newly developed Pleasure and Pressure based Prosocial Motivation Scale, we demonstrated the distinctiveness of pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation in three studies. Although the two motives exhibited different relations to a variety of personality charact...

Lotos data structures are described by sorts, which represent value domains, and operations, which are mathematical functions defined on these domains by algebraic equations. Value expressions are terms built from variables and operations. Sorts, operations, and equations are grouped in modules called types, which can be combined together using multiple inheritance, renaming, parametrization, a...

In this article there were proposed psychological factors of the discourse’s actualization. They are, first all, psycholinguistic presupposition in process communication, quasi- communication or understanding text is a special kind logical mastering information, cognitive explication frames by means actualization common fund knowledge participants about world, its organization, place person it ...

In this paper we suggest an alternative to standard neodarwinian evolution theory. The problem is that Darwinism, which sees evolution as a consequence of random variation and natural selection is based on a materialistic i.e. matter-based view of science, while matter in itself is considered to be a very complex notion in modern physics. More specifically, on a microlevel, matter and energy ar...

Research Article * Michael Barrett was the accepting senior editor. This article was submitted on 31st March 2010 and went through three revisions. Diane M. Strong Worcester Polytechnic Institute