Category: Psychology
The Effects of Smartphone-based Interventions on Changes of Creativity Mindset, Passion Toward Smart Phones, and Self-efficacy of Creativity
This study aimed to examine a smartphone-based intervention effect on changes of passion in smartphone use, growth creativity mindset, fixed …
Cornering the Muses: A Multifaceted Approach to Assessing Creativity
Since Guilford addressed the American Psychological Association in 1950 and called for an academic movement for the study of creativity, …
Applying Culture Bound Theory to Acute Social Withdrawal (hikikomori)
This paper seeks to identify factors that implicate culture bound theory both in the socio demographic orientation of hikikomori and …
Compulsive Buying among Late Adolescents as an Identity-related Compensatory Behaviour: Big Five Personality, Identity Motives and Self-construal as Predictors
Compulsive buying is dysfunctional consumer behaviour with harmful personal, social, psychological, and financial problems. Social psychological perspectives define compulsive buying …
Crime, Conflict and Control in Bangkok
As there were considerable crime and conflict in Bangkok, the researcher studied and analyzed such problems compared with crime problems …
Correlations among Peer Relations, Learning Activities with Friends, and University Adjustment
In September 2013, to examine the correlations among peer relations, learning activities with friends, and university adjustment, a questionnaire was …
A First-attack Urticaira Increased Risk of Following Depression in Adolescence – National Study
Objective: Urticaria is a common ailment in adolescents. Its symptoms (e.g., unusual looking rash, limited daily activities, and recurrent itching) …
Real, Relevant or Redundant: Positioning and Re-Positioning Buddhism in Australia as an Education Paradigm
This paper explores the development of a Buddhist religious education program conducted in state primary schools in Australia. It considers …
Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for the Elderly – A Case Series
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an increasingly rare commodity to find in psychiatric practice, but has never been seen to have a …
To See is to Believe: Why Students Cannot Detect Geometric Properties?
Geometric properties are important characteristics to identify geometric shapes. The sorting task in geometric shapes is to help students understand …
Students’ Perspectives on Learning Environments: Factors Affecting Their Satisfaction and Emotions in School
Children spend most of their waking time in school; therefore, experiences in school are a major domain in their life. …
Femoral Neck Fracture Increase the Chance of Suffering Depression: A National Population-Based Follow-Up Study
Comorbidities, poor levels of activity and pain may contribute to the development of depression, but these factors have not been …
A Study of the Relationship between Resilience and Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Adolescent Students affected by Civil Unrest in the Three Border Provinces in Southern Thailand
This research is aimed to 1) study resilience of adolescents students affected by civil unrest in the three border provinces …
Internet Using Behavior of Teenagers
This research was qualitative based research. The objectives were to better understand Internet media consumption behaviors and search for terms …
The Discourse Analysis of Social Reflection Drama of Sexual Behavior of Teenagers
The objectives of this research were 1) To find the characteristics of adolescent’s sexual behavior reflected in the characters. 2) …
A Study of Sexual Value of University Students of Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok Chantaburi Campus
This research has two main objectives: 1) to determine the sexual value of students in Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok …
The Study of Well-Being in Grade 12 Students
The purpose of this research was to examine the well-being of high school students and to determine comparability of well-being …
The Growth of Science in Developing Nations: A Discourse in Intercultural Philosophy
Conceiving science in a cultural or national context seems a conceptual absurdity. This sense of absurdity derives from the positivists' …
Indonesian Primary School Students’ Perceptions on Academic Help-seeking Behaviour
Seeking academic help when students are facing academic difficulties is considered to be an adaptive behaviour. However, many studies have …
Oral Health Practices During Pregnancy
Background: This study contends that poor oral health might associate with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Little is known about oral hygiene …
Health Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in Young Adulthood
In young adulthood most people begin to realize the meaning of health. The amount of costs to be incurred for …
Cognition for Eating Behavior of Thai’s Consumer: The Mirror of Public Health Policies
Nowadays, Thai consumers, especially those who live in the main cities have active concerns regarding their eating behavior even though …
Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to Investigate Consumers’ Purchase Intention: Usana as an Example
The sudden boom in direct selling business in recent years has drawn a considerable number of participants. The mechanism that …
Cognitive Change among Foreign Managers in Japan’s IT Sector
There is a large volume of research on foreign worker adjustment, though little has taken on the issue of cognitive …
Consumer Behaviors of Meat with Traceability in Thailand: The Psychological Mechanism
Due to the outbreak of mad cow disease and bird flu, consumers around the globe are more concerned with meat …
Country Personality: The Application of Brand Personality Concept to Country as a Brand
Brand personality refers to human personality traits associated with a brand. Through a series of studies, Aaker (1997) uncovers five …
“Just Eliminate the Illness; Do Not Eliminate Dharmas”: A Case Study on the Lived Experience of a Buddhist Surviving Spouse
Despite the fact that myriads of publications, basing on Western theories, have investigated spousal loss, which threatens to physical health …
Factors Associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders in School-age Children in Thailand
This cross-sectional analytical study examined the relationship between risk factors of Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) in school-age children in …
Self-leadership as an Impetus for Individual, Group or Community Development
The concept "self-leadership" is an outgrowth of the broader term "leadership" whose purpose is to motivate others in utilizing their …
The Role of Service Competencies: Promoting the Relationship between Frontline Employee and Customer
Within the service industry, the service-person enhances customer commitment by increasing customer benefits and decreasing customer costs, but is also …
The Influence of Sekentei and Significant Others on Seeking Help toward Psychological Services
The under-utilization of mental health services is salient in Japan, implying that those seeking psychological help can be inhibited through …
Logo-bibliotherapy on People Suffering from Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia Gravis (MG), is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that is characterized by a weakness of the skeletal muscles within …
Cognitive Dissonance among Chinese Gamblers: Cultural Beliefs versus Gambling Behavior
The main objective of this research was to ascertain whether there is cognitive dissonance among Chinese gamblers as a consequence …
Relationship between Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, and Attachment Style among Juvenile Delinquency in Urmia City – Iran
Psychological factors, such as self-esteem and self-efficacy, have been shown to be equally as important in contributing to the cause …
An Application of the UTAUT Model for Exploring Cosmetics Product Purchase Intention of Virtual Community Members
Technology development have been rapidly grown and adapted by people. Internet users in Taiwan have been a great number and …
Note on Publishing Intensity and Publishing Breadth
Given a set of leading scholars, a list of journals and a
period of time, publishing intensity (PI) of a …
A Structural Model of the Factors of Dissatisfaction Involved in Mobile Applications
Mobile Applications (Apps) have been increasingly popular in the recent years and are changing people's daily lives in leisure and …
Measuring Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Balanced Scorecard for Taiwan Medical Equipment Industry
Nowadays, the rapid changes of industrial environment have led to fierce competition among enterprises, and evaluating performances has become crucial …
Exploring the Effect of Service Recovery Strategy on Internet Consumers’ Satisfaction and Word-of-Mouth
While more and more consumers are shopping on the Internet, the consumers can easily change their mind and switch to …
The Driving Factors of Key Value Influence Online B2B Banking Satisfaction
Purpose - In the case of rapid technological progress, online business-to-business (B2B) banking services provide efficient and convenient finical services …
Attitudes towards Meeting in Real Life via the Internet in Japanese University Students
In recent years, several crimes concerning victims and perpetrators who had previously met via the Internet and had subsequently met …
Self-esteem, Readiness for Self-improvement and Subjective Well-being in Women from Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures
The question of how collective self-esteem and personal self-esteem are linked to readiness for self-improvement and subjective well-being in women …
The Study of Social Intelligence in Adolescents in Roi-Et Province
This study aimed to 1)examine the level of Social Intelligence in adolescents in Roi-Et province, Thailand 2)to study correlation between …
Uses and Gratifications for Paid Mobile Applications
The increasing growth of the mobile applications industry attributes to the popularity of the smartphone. More and more people use …
Exploring Consumer Perception of Pop-Up Advertisement
Nowadays, not only on the computer, but also smart phones and other mobile devices, Internet advertising has become increasingly common. …
A Study on Quality of Life in Male to Female Transgender
The objective of this study was to examine Transgenders' quality of life. Samples were 120 Transgenders in Chonburi province, Thailand, …
Predicting Consumer’s Intention to Buy Local Specialty Online
The purchases of local specialties were usually seen in conventional physical stores in the past. The potential consumers were the …
Influence of Mental Models of Attachment during Middle Childhood on Self-esteem and Social Competence: A Short-term Longitudinal Study
Purpose: This short-term longitudinal study examined the influence of attachment mental models (AMM) during middle childhood on self-esteem and social …
A Study on Reasons for Living of Inmates in Chonburi Women’s Penitentiary Center
The purpose of this study was to survey the female inmates' reasons for living. The samples included 99 inmates who …
The Effect of Sensation Seeking from Peers, Parenting Style, Religious Values and Juvenile Delinquency in Middle Adolescence of High School
This study wanted to see the effect of sensation seeking, parenting style, and the value of religious studies on juvenile …
Car Safety Rating and Consumer Decision Making: with Respect to ASEAN NCAP
Emerging as one of the developing regions in automotive industry, countries in the Southeast Asia region are experiencing growth at …
Therapeutic Alliance and the Prevention of Relapse in Collectivist Malay Family in Malaysia
Being a drug addict makes one's alienation possible, even if one belongs to a strong interdependent family as it is …
Cognitive-behavioral Therapy of Bipolar Depressive Disorder (Manic-depressive): A Case Study
Introduction: The usual treatments of the bipolar depressive disorder, such as medication and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have negative side effects …
Measuring Trust in China: Resolving Eastern and Western Differences in Concepts of Trust
Trust has implicit meaning for every person and has different meanings in different cultures, making it difficult to measure across …
Personal Communicative Activity in a Cultural Adaptation Process
The personal activity problem is connected with the increasing speed of society life, communication capabilities, which form a special person's …
Risk Management for the Future: Age, Risk, Cognitive Depletion, and Choice Architecture
How can regulation in an era of personal responsibility aid people to make the optimal decisions about their future risks, …
Meta-analysis of Intelligence Scores of ‘Street Children’ in Developing Countries
In many developing countries, unsupervised children spend much of their time in the urban environment and in the context of …
Multiple Creativities: A Task to Set up a New Model to Creative Thinking
This study seeks to provide a new understanding of what is called Multiple Dimensional Creativities by setting up a new …
Taiwanese Parents’ Reaction to the Achievement of Their Children: Vertical Distinctiveness Versus Horizontal Distinctiveness
In Confucian societies, one who has any achievement is always basking his/her Big Self, especially to his/her parents. However, since …
How to Predict Professional Success in Music and Beyond? Constructing Universal Talent’s Structure for the Best Vocational Choices
The purpose of this paper is to present a universal model for human talent following the example of musical talent. …
Consumer Market for Functional Foods in Thailand
Functional food is any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients. The …
An Integrated Theory of Behaviour
The objective of the study has been to develop an Integrated Theory of Behaviour,to test the theory on Indian and …
Is Personality Type a Predictor of Social Network Connections?
Social media platforms have become an integral part of how we live our lives, in particular for those generations who …
Social Bond of Indonesian Higher-Education Students Who Access Facebook
Along with technological advances and the rapid flow of information, people's need to access the Internet is increasing. According to …
A Developing Second-order Measurement Model of Thai Adolescent’s Desirable Characteristic
Over the past decades in Thailand, some educators fixed the students' good characters in order to becoming the primary educational …
The Role of Empathy in Experiencing of Loneliness of Others and Existential-Behavioral Training in the Empathy Development
Modern life offers many opportunities to keep in touch with each other, but that does not mean the true relationship …
Examining Critical Success Factors for Medical Device Industry in Taiwan
With the population aging, research indicated that the growing of chronic disease and rapidly increasing costs of healthcare are becoming …
Creating an Audio-Haptic Narrative Book for Blind Children: The Role of Audio Feedback in Inducing Pleasure
The aim of this study was to create an audio-tactile narrative book for blind children and to assess the role …
Risk Assessment Tool for Adverse Outcomes of Occupational Stress: Development and Investigation of Psychometric Properties
Objectives: While psychosocial factors at work have been widely mentioned as important contributors to occupational stress, only recent research suggests …
The Moderating Effect of Work Motivation and Coping Strategies on Job Satisfaction and Psychological Well Being among Fire Fighters
Sources of occupational stress and their impact on work motivation, job satisfaction and well being were examined in a questionnaire …
Effect of Transpersonal Psychotherapy in Reducing Symptom of Craving and the Level Dependency in People with Substance Use Disorder
The numbers of young people who are addicted to drugs in Bali, Indonesia has been increasing every year and it …
An Exploratory Study of Core Competencies in Psychological Assessment —A Taiwan Perspective
Psychological assessment is regarded as one of the eight key competence domains at the 2002 competency conference in the U.S. …
Tragedy aesthetics of Ki-duk Kim film
Ki-Duk Kim (1960 ~) is a very well-known film director in Korea that was awarded the best director award at …
Emotion Regulation: A Critical Review of Cross-cultural Validity
During the last two decades, research investigations in emotion regulation have proliferated due to the recognition of its significance in …
Altruism Among Teachers in Jakarta
Altrusim is an important aspect in a teacher. Altruism is an attitude to pay attention on other’s well-being without concerning …
Dealing with Emotional Crisis: A Phenomenological Exploration of Thai Helpers’ Perception and Experiences
Emotional crisis is a state of the mind that signifies the suffering caused by the feeling of insecurity from the …
Children’s Understanding of First- and Second-Order False Beliefs in One Narrative
The results of false belief tasks show that children acquire second-order false beliefs (B thinks that A thinks X is …
The Relationships of Trust in Supervisor, On-the-Job Embeddedness, and Intentions to Leave: Testing the Mediating Effect of On-the-Job Embeddedness
Much work has been done on the voluntary turnover topic in over 50 years, yet much work has to be …
Self-Acceptance of Sexual Orientation in Gay Men: A Consensual Qualitative Research
Self-acceptance is a salient process for LGBT including gay people, to both explore one's identity and share that identity with …
An Analysis of Film Voice-Over and Sound Interpretation Techniques from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
One of the filming approaches is cross-cultural perspectives. Many cross-cultural works, however, are susceptible to controversies and often subject to …
Relations Between Intention to Self-Change and Cognitions of Benefit and Cost to Self-Change in University Students
The purpose of this study was to examine relations between intention to self-change and cognitions of benefit and cost to …
Cross-cultural Consideration in the Contribution to Somatisation
This article focuses on a discussion of socio-cultural factors contributing to somatisation. Somatisation is a universal phenomenon. People with somatisation …
Factoring in the Correct Answers Ratio in a Psycho-Educational Program
Various prevention programs fall short when it comes to practical application of learned skills. Students should be able to grasp …
Validation of Psychological Capital Questionnaire in Thai employees
Although the construct psychological capital was first introduced by Luthan, the concept has been developed in attaining competitive advantage and …
Negligence in Modern Families Lives
Modern invention of telecommunication devices has made the distance between people in the world closer. People can make contact between …
Explaining Context Effects through the Perspective of Preference Uncertainty
Context effects indicate that when evaluating a set of choices, consumers consider the alternatives not only in isolation, but also …
Social Policy and Female-Headed Household in the Post Revolutionary Iran
In the recent three decades Iran bears various changes such as revolution, war and socio-economic development which have also brought …
Preliminary Study of 3D Base Navigation Websites Development – Use 3D Virtual Temple Navigate Websites For Example
From now on, website display still uses interface visual effects as the main appeal, its goal aims to attract user's …
Medical Morality in Islamic Civilization
The position of science and scholars in religious doctrines and encouraging people to learn required sciences have provided a proper …
The Indonesian Moslem Marital Quality Scale: Development, Validation, and Reliability
The development of the Indonesian Moslem Marital Quality Scale (IMMQS) is presented. In the first study, data from 258 respondents …
Learning to Cope with Hypoglycemia for Patients with Diabetes
Background: The fear of hypoglycemia may be an important barrier to people adopting regimens that closely control blood glucose levels …
Bilingualism Helps Asian Families Flourish
In my personal experience as an Asian Canadian, many Asian families no longer pass on their native language to their …
The Diagnostic Technique of Activity, Action and Deed Reflection
The reflection diagnostic technique is based on long-term fundamental theoretical and methodological researches of Russian psychologists. A new approach to …
Connectedness between Individual, Community and Environmental Factors in the Process of Recovery People Affected Merapi Eruption in 2010
The process of recovery of people after exposure to a natural disaster usually always is seen as the individual process. …
Modeling Choice Behavior of Delivery Provider of Online Auctioneer
Digital technology has provided a new paradigm of our society and changed our life’s interaction with the Internet. As an …
Competition Anxiety in Egyptian Children Sportsmen
Studying the anxiety of child sportsmen has increased in the past ten years. A lot of studies aimed to identify …
Applying Technology-Mediation to Assist Junior College Students to Learn Japanese as 2nd Language and Improve the Efficiency
This study is based on college students' as study objects and attempting to explore the application of technology-mediation method for …
Development of Resilience Quotient (RQ) Support Activities Set for Disabled Students
This research had the objectives to develop a Resilience Quotient Support Activities Set for disabled students, to use the developed …
Seniors Use of Medical Electric Scooters with The Intention Satisfaction Study in Taiwan
This study aims to explore the properties of the senior citizens of Taiwan; their living and their needs of going …
Stress Resistance, Adaptability, and Emotional Stability of Medical Students Obtaining Categories 4 and 5 on The Psychometric Test and Related Factors
Background: In its effort to produce high quality graduates, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Indonesia administers psychological tests …
Living Arrangements and Adjustment of Elderly Persons
Adjustment of old age persons is a common problem all over the world. Due to old age and retirement, their …
The Relationship between Analytic and Holistic Styles of Thinking and Forgiveness
This study examined the relationship between styles of thinking (analytic vs. holistic) and willingness to forgive. Previous research has uncovered …