Background & aim: Stability and survival of marital life depends on the love and positive feelings towards spouse in married couples. Sexual assertiveness is considered as a person's ability to have intercourse to meet his/her sexual needs and promote sexual relationships with the spouse. The more couples are aware of each other's sexual needs and can satisfy those needs, the more desirably the...

BACKGROUND Suicide has been linked to intense negative affect. However, little is known about the range of affects experienced by suicidal persons, or the separate effects of affect valence and intensity. We examine a novel self-report scale, the 17-item Affective Intensity Rating Scale (AIRS), and its relation to suicidality in a high-risk sample. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Patients pres...

Objectives To measure student nurses’ attitudes toward health and identify the influence of demographic characteristics and psychological wellbeing on these attitudes. Design A cross‐sectional survey between April and June 2006. Setting An Australian University in South‐East Queensland. Subjects 369 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing, Pre‐Registration Program. Main outcome measures At...

Present study was carried out to study the status of maternal consciousness among Nepalese women living in Kathmandu. Of the total 360 mothers of different ethnic groups included in this study, only 55.5% mothers were found to have a positive feeling regarding their pregnancy (pregnancy is a wonderful event for women) (strongly positive 16.6%; positive 39.2%). Over one-forth of the mothers (27....

AIM To elucidate early adolescent girls' attitudes, thoughts and feelings towards menstruation and their bodies. METHODS 309 12-y-old girls answered questionnaires. One part of the questionnaire dealt with thoughts and feelings towards menstruation. The other part dealt with thoughts and feelings towards menstruation and sex and ability to communicate on aspects of womanhood. RESULTS Postme...

BACKGROUND This study presents findings from a large sample of donor offspring who are aware of the nature of their conception. Importantly, this is one of the first studies to compare the views of offspring told of their origins during childhood to those who found out during adulthood. METHODS Online questionnaires were completed anonymously by donor offspring who were members of the Donor S...

Since Mitchell and Olson (1981) highlighted the major influence of the attitude towards the ad (Aad) for advertising effectiveness, emotional responses in advertising have received increasing attention. Since then, numerous authors have found that ad evaluations were debilitated by negative affect and stimulated by positive affect, and that liking an ad could lead to developing a positive attit...

PURPOSE The research aim is to study the working attitude of a physician towards his patient with obstetric failures in the emotional component aspect. MATERIAL AND METHODS A sample of 164 gynecological doctors was encompassed by the study. The physicians were mainly interviewed during various types of training courses, specialist conventions and during personal meetings. A 44-question anonym...