objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of predicting psychological well-being based on spirituality and religiousness. methods: a sample of 300 participants was selected from the whole entrants to shiraz university of medical sciences and shiraz university using a random cluster sampling. the tools of this study were the spiritual scale of ironson, the internal and ...

aim and background: depression and anxiety among students are important issues, because they lead to scholastic decline and develop many difficulties for students in the future. furthermore, adherence to religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion as a deterrent to many mental disorders, especially depression and anxiety, has attracted the attention of many psychologists. this study aimed t...

This paper outlines a theory of global traits based on the seminal writings of Gordon Allport and 50 years of subsequent empirical research. Personality research needs to refocus on global traits because such traits are an important part of everyday social discourse, because they embody a good deal of folk wisdom and common sense, because understanding and evaluating trait judgments can provide...

Our world consists of object and events. As an almost defining criterion of how an object is constituted, the features of an object are all attached to each other: the redness of the cherry is exactly where I find its roundness and the softness of its skin, and all these features are there at the same point in time. Things get a bit more complicated if we consider larger objects, like a sailing...

In the early 1900s Cooley’s concept of the “looking glass self” (Cooley, 1902, 1909) articulated that ideas about ourselves are profoundly shaped by how we believe others see us—that one’s self concept is socially constructed. As a result, negative judgments from others are often incorporated into one’s self concept (Allport, 1954; Crocker & Major, 1989; Link, Cullen, Struening, et al., 1989; M...

Background and Objectives: Due to the negative consequence of girls’ escape, this study was conducted to compare personality, demographic, and religious characteristics of runaway girls and normal ones in Qom city. Methods: In a case control study, 66 single runaway girls and 66 normal girls were selected as experimental group and control group, respectively. Data was culled using inte...

Background and Objectives: Chronic diseases, such as cancer, are among the factors seriously affecting health and marital satisfaction. Regarding this, the present study was conducted with the aim of modeling marital satisfaction among women with breast cancer in Kermanshah province, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 250 females with breast cancer referring t...