background: with regard to large number of mobile users especially among college students in iran, addiction to mobile phone is attracting increasing concern. there is an urgent need for reliable and valid instrument to measure this phenomenon. this study examines validity and reliability of the persian version of mobile phone addiction scale (mpais) in college students. materials and methods: ...

OBJECTIVE Although there is clear evidence that low levels of positive future thinking (anticipation of positive experiences in the future) and hopelessness are associated with suicide risk, the relationship between the content of positive future thinking and suicidal behavior has yet to be investigated. This is the first study to determine whether the positive future thinking-suicide attempt r...

INTRODUCTION Socio-economically disadvantaged women are at a greater risk of spending excess time engaged in television viewing, a behavior linked to several adverse health outcomes. However, the factors which explain socio-economic differences in television viewing are unknown. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of intrapersonal, social and environmental factors to mediating soci...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to examine processes through which chronic pain can result in depressed mood and to determine whether intrapersonal coping resources, namely high self-esteem and optimism, affect these processes. We hypothesized that pain severity contributes to depressed mood largely because pain interferes with involvement in important pursuits. We then examined whethe...

The current study investigated the perception of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and tool-based grasping possibilities. In Experiment 1, participants judged whether they would grasp planks of wood-presented in ascending, descending, and random orders of length-using one hand (1H), two hands (2H), or with a tool that extended their reach (TH). In Experiment 2, participants physically grasped the p...

Bayesian subspace analysis has been successfully applied in face recognition. However, it suffers from its operating on a whole face difference and using one global linear subspace to represent the similarity model. We develop a novel approach to address these problems. The proposed method operates directly on a set of partitioned local regions of the global face differences, and a separate Gau...

Ainslie is correct in arguing that the force of commitments partly depends on the predictive role of present action, but this claim can be supported independently of the analogy with interpersonal bargaining. No matter whether we conceive of the parties involved in the bargaining as interests or transient selves, the picture of the will as a competitive interaction among these parties is unconv...