Video games have an almost ubiquitous status in today's industrial nations. One exceptionally strong growth segment is MMORPGs; these games are attracting increasing attention for their relevance to academic research and are the subject of studies both at individual and interdisciplinary level. World of Warcraft (ActivisionBlizzard, USA), the economically most successful MMORPG and simultaneous...

Women have always been relevant in any development process either at home or their various communities. They are the key actors bringing about real changes positively given population statistics and active roles community. often grassroots level seen to be important decision making processes though most cases this is not acknowledged appreciated patriarchal nature of communities also higher lev...

Transitions into work and family roles have become increasingly delayed as participation in tertiary education widens. Such transitions may have adverse or beneficial effects on health behaviours such as smoking and drinking (alcohol). Role socialisation effects may reduce smoking or drinking, but clustering of transitions may lead to role overload, weakening or reversing any role socialisation...

Abstract According to Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), humans have a strong biological tendency adopt self-defeating irrational beliefs which are subsequently driven by the socio-cultural environment one lives in Ellis (J Individ Psychol 32:145–168, 1976). Sport of all levels presents unique may serve explain sport-related irrationalities harboured athletes given that sport seems endo...