The feminization of journalism, a process taking place in numerous countries worldwide, has been advancing at a much higher rate in Russia than elsewhere. This trend is based on both global and specifically Russian factors. The gradual migration of journalism from being a typically male profession to being a predominantly female one brings about a number of inner transformations and creates a c...

The nature of computer vision causes the fact that not only computer science researchers are interested in it, but neuroscientists and psychologists, too. One of the main interests for psychology is identification of person’s psychological traits and personality types which can be accomplished by different means of psychological testing: questionnaires, interviews, direct observations, etc. Tho...

OBJECTIVE We conducted this study to analyze the psychological characteristics of obese children. PATIENTS AND METHODS We selected 60 cases of obese children as obesity group and according to 1:1 matching principle, we selected 60 normal weight children as the control group. We investigated and analyzed children's family behavior, mental health, temperament, self-consciousness and social adap...

There is much evidence now to support the view that drug abusers, particularly those who seek treatment, are poorly psychologically adjusted (Braucht et al., 1973). The contributory factors and nature of this poor psychological adjustment vary widely. It seems unlikely now that there is any one specific set of psychological traits or psychiatric disorder which differentiates the drug abuser fro...

This investigation explored the psychological characteristics of self-injury, as well as the frequency of self-injury in a college sample. Two hundred and twenty individuals who self-injure were recruited from a self-help website. These were compared to college students who were not specifically seeking help for self-injury. It was found that 20% of the college students reported having self-inj...

Background and Aim: Personnel of the sheriff's departments as human resources, due to the inherent characteristics of the military profession, are faced with numerous occupational problems and as a result are exposed to greater psychological vulnerability than those of other occupations. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological characteristics of depre...

Background. Controlled studies suggest that clerical child sexual offenders may be better adjusted psychologically than their lay counterparts, although no studies of Irish clerical offenders have been reported. Aim. To compare clerical and non-clerical sexual offenders with a normal control group, within an Irish context, on broad-band personality traits and narrow-band psychological character...

BACKGROUND The distress that couples experience in IVF treatment is well-documented though research exploring factors that might contribute to the distress is scarce and the role of infertility-specific versus more general psychological characteristics in predicting psychological distress remains unexplored. This exploratory study aimed to describe, explore and test a self-constructed conceptua...

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in this article inorder to identify variables related to employee’s psychological empowerment in qom education organization, at first, psychological empowerment and it’s components (trust, impact, self-determination, meaning, competence) are set as a dependent variable and participative management, training, fostering personal mastery experiences , amotional erousal, connecting to outcomes, hav...