introduction: breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to promote children's health. the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and success of breastfeeding. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study in referring of multiple health centers in shiraz, sample of 150 mothers with children aged one to three 3 years were selected usi...

objective: psychological hardiness is a protective personality structure against life stresses that plays a major role in resisting stressful events. thus, the present research aimed to predict the psychological hardiness based on mental health and emotional intelligence in students. methods: the method applied in the research was a descriptive-correlation type. a total of 348 students of payam...

This paper investigates neighborhood peer eff ects on individual welfare using a combined IV and control function approach. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for the years 2007-2010 constructed by enriching the geo-referenced version of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) with aggregated zip code level-information. The results suggest that individual welfare use is positively co...

This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp increase in alcohol consumption in the experimental regions, particularly among youths. Using a difference...

leaders failure in correct evaluation of feelings and emotions of employees, may act as a barrier in achieving organizational goals. therefore it is important to pay attention to job and contextual performance arising from positive behaviors such as cooperation and effort of employees. moreover, employees’ training is usually focused on recognition teaching, and less on emotional- social aspect...

lack of intimacy and emotional disconnection became a main challenge in contemporary family that can be interpreted and perceived differently from variant viewpoints. the current study aimed to explore the context and women’s way of dealing by emotional separation through investigation of perception and subjective meaning of women involved in this process. research was done in qualitative appro...

some products include emotional messages which are recognized and perceived by users unconsciously. such products can have deeper influence on users and satisfy their emotional needs. from emotional design point of view, the main objective of design is to satisfy emotional needs of users, so tries to direct and incline design criteria to this main goal. emotional design is based on advanced tec...

this study investigated the role of emotional intelligence bank mellat branch managers in tehran to communicate effectively started in february 2010 and lasted for one year and a half. in the present research bar-on model of emotional intelligence was used. in order to test hypothesis 165 persons were selected as sample. the required data was collected through distributing questionnaire and the...

The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success, in terms of both equality and economic growth. However, it recently became evident that subgroups of the population with weak labour market attachment and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were vastly overrepresented among the poor. This prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system for ...

2013 Urban Youth, India Towards a Youth Agenda in Policy and Practice / Padma Prakash 2 3 Towards a Youth Agenda in Policy and Practice across the country. An IMF paper [Aiyar and Mody 2012] has pointed to the huge demographic advantage of some of the poorer, heavily populated states in the country. In 19912001 the high growth states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat had a dependency ratio o...