BACKGROUND Alcohol consumption is associated to expectancies of global positive behavioral changes, improvement in sexual performance and a higher level assertiveness. These issues are evaluated by the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ-III). AIM To perform a factorial validation of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ-III). MATERIALS AND METHODS The questionnaire was applied to a r...

The present study aimed to translate and validate Mental Health Inventory (Veit & Ware, 1983). It was done in three phases. Phase I involved the translation of Mental Health Inventory through back translation method. Phase II aimed at establishing psychometric properties of the measure. For this purpose, sample consisting of 600 individuals (325 men, 275 women) with age ranging between 21 to 50...

safety climate received substantial attention due to its potential for explaining variation in safety-related outcomes. aim of present study was to determine degree of safety climate related to incidents reporting rate and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 189 workers. the survey included demographic factors, incidents reportin...

The present study mainly investigates the psychological strain of mobile workers who use information and communication technology. Data was collected via an onlinequestionnaire. More than 200 participants took part. The results show that the ergonomic conditions of mobile workers should be improved. Flexibility and decision-making latitude associated with mobile work are evaluated quite positiv...

BACKGROUND Psychological factors are important in the etiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease (CHD). Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) aims to reduce psychological distress, besides other somatic risk factors. Studies have shown that CR is effective in reducing psychological distress, but little is known about gender-specific outcome differences. Our objective was to examine whether women an...

When trying to understand social processes and phenomena, it is relevant, and arguably important, to take psychology (cognition, motivation, and so on) of individuals into consideration. Detailed computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate a wide range of psychological functionalities have been developed in cognitive science, while most of the work in social simulation still assum...

This study advances a detailed social-psychological model of climate change risk perceptions by combining and integrating cognitive, experiential, and socio-cultural factors. The conceptual model is tested empirically on a national sample (N 1⁄4 808) of the UK population. Results indicate that the full climate change risk perception model (CCRPM) is able to explain nearly 70% of the variance in...