The expected increasing demand for informal care in aging societies underscores the importance of understanding the psychological implications of caregiving. This study explores the effect of providing regular help with personal care to a partner on different aspects of psychological well-being. We use cross-sectional data from the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation study (n. ~15,000;...

In this study, the authors used a within-person design to examine the relation between recovery experiences (psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery experiences) during leisure time, sleep, and affect in the next morning. Daily survey data gathered over the course of 1 work week from 166 public administration employees analyzed with a hierarchical linear modeling approach showed that low ...

6 Abstract By fostering continuous learning experiences blended with entertaining 7 affordances, serious games have been able to shape new virtual contexts for human 8 psychological growth and well-being. Thus, they can be considered as Positive 9 Technologies. Positive Technology is an emergent field based on both theoretical 10 and applied research, whose goal is to investigate how Informatio...

purpose: the purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between the organizational commitment and the psychological empowerment in the libraries of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: this study is an applied research on the librarians of ferdowsi university of mashhad. data were collected relying on allen and meyer (1990) organizational commitment questionnaire and spreitz...

Two studies explored the relationship between blogging and psychological empowerment among women. First, a survey (N = 340) revealed that personal journaling empowers users by inducing a strong sense of community whereas filter blogging does so by enhancing their sense of agency. Various user motivations were also shown to predict psychological empowerment. Next, a 2 (type of blog) X 2 (comment...

In the transactional model of stress, coping responses are the key to preventing the stress response. In this study, the possible role of psychological well-being as a personal determinant of coping strategies in the academic context was analyzed. Specifically, the study has two objectives: (a) to identify different profiles of students according to their level of psychological well-being; and ...