Purpose. Promoting physical culture on campus is highly important as it provides an avenue for the students to develop and strengthen their bodies circumvent fatal diseases illnesses brought by present living conditions. However, this can only be translated taking into priority individual interest of toward Physical education school engagement. Published scholarly works have accentuated that si...

Granting forgiveness demands self-regulation. Distinct modes of self-regulation might therefore produce distinct routes to forgiveness. Self-regulation focused on advancement (or promotion) could motivate forgiveness through the perceived benefits to be attained by repairing a relationship, i.e., one’s trust that a partner will provide such benefits rather than further betrayal. In contrast, se...

The concept of Health was proposed at the beginning of 20th Century. Health was confined to the study of ‘Health of the Public’ and thus ‘Individual Health’ was neglected. Soon after this, a new concept, “health promotion” took shape with an aim that the State had a direct responsibility for the health of the individual. Health promotion includes the personal health services such as mother and ...

The stability of orthognathic surgery has been the subject of numerous publications over the last 20 years. It is now apparent that studies must pay attention to the homogeneity of the patients investigated and in particular, surgical techniques. In Part 2 of our study of 45 patients who had a uniform one-piece maxillary advancement with rigid fixation to advance the maxilla, we found that unco...

Some personality assessment tools are good at identifying what you like to do, but they tell you very little about whether you're good at it or how to improve if you're not. Fortunately, one way of grouping people into types is based on an attribute that does predict performance: promotion focus or prevention focus. Promotion-focused people see their goals as creating a path to advancement; the...

Regulatory focus theory delineates how people engage in self-regulation, the process of bringing oneself into alignment with one’s standards and goals. At any given point in time, people may engage in self-regulation with a promotion focus or a prevention focus. When promotion-focused, people’s growth and advancement needs motivate them to try to bring themselves into alignment with their ideal...

Twenty years has passed since the publication of the seminal paper ‘The salutogenic model as a theory to guide health promotion’ (Antonovsky, 1996), in which Antonovsky proposed salutogenesis and its central construct sense of coherence (SOC) as a way of boosting the theoretical basis for health promotion activities. Since then there has been a notable amount of conceptual and empirical work ca...

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has been used in assessing scientific journals. Other indices, h- and g-indices and Article Influence Score (AIS), have been developed to overcome some limitations of JIF. The aims of this study were, first, to critically assess the use of JIF and other parameters related to medical education research, and second, to discuss the capacity of these indices in assessing...