Essays Tagged: "psychological factors"
Sport Psychology: Analysis of Psychological Skills Training models with particular reference to Thomas's (1990) model for performance enhancement.
The ultimate quest for sport psychologists is to establish what psychological factors produce the winning formula or to try to establish a profile of the successful ... gories observed in order to understand and move towards the 'ideal athletic personality' is that of Psychological Skills Training (PST), "It is contended that mental skills training is a significant p ... etes and coaches" (Rushall, 1995, p0.3).Programs have been developed to help athletes develop their psychological skills. Many researchers within this field have concluded that Psychological Skills Tr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
School Uniforms In Public School Systems.
students in public school systems. The uniforms can positively affect the student's social factors, psychological factors; decrease the amount of violence in schools, and they also raise controversy o ... l systems can make uniforms mandatory.Another reason why school uniforms should be utilized are the psychological factors it offers. "Various psychological outcomes are attributed to wearing uniforms ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
What Role is Played by the Three Guna in the Hindu Vision of the Structure of the Cosmos?
form part of Vedic (Hindu) philosophy, simply put they are the lords of the three most fundamental psychological factors of the universe, and they correspond to the three functions of material existe ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Hinduism
Hamelt's Fatal Flaw.
nly by rational considerations, such as the need for certainty, but also by emotional, ethical, and psychological factors.A student whose studies are interrupted by his father's death, Hamlet is extre ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Reasearch methods in Nursing Studies
nificant problem, which apparently affects seventy percent of pregnant women (O'Brien). Even though psychological factors may play a part in severity and duration (Abraham,S.), no support has been fou ... or the theory that it is a psychosomatic condition, but rather a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors (Simpson, S. et al.).Management of nausea and vomiting is pa ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Blood Makes All the Bad things go away
addiction just like drugs and alcoholism, and like all others stems from a variety of cultural and psychological factors.Although the aspect of self mutilation makes some cringe, some are pleased at ... until it bleeds, biting yourself, pulling your hair out, etc. By doing this brings their levels of psychological and physiological tension and arousal back to a bearable baseline level almost immedia ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Motivation, stress and anxiety in sport
Motivation is one of the main psychological factors affecting sports performance; it is one of the most important aspects of compe ... formance. "The study of motivation is the study of all those pushes and prods-biological, social or psychological that defeat our laziness and move us, either eagerly or reluctantly to action." (Mille ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Critical Thinking and Decision Making
n of the full range of possibilities to a problem, including emotional, cognitive, intellectual and psychological factors .Thus, critical thinking belongs to the category of higher-level thinking skil ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
Gender
be independent of each other.Gender refers to the social, cultural, anatomical, physiological, and psychological factors we have in mind when we say a person is a man or a woman, or describe that per ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
About Anorexia Nervosa
mia. Although there are not any identifiable physical causes of anorexia nervosa, there are several psychological factors that contribute to this condition. Anorexia Nervosa is promoted through cultur ... suffer from eating disorders (Canadian enc.). As a result of these eating disorders there are many psychological and physical repercussions. The psychological repercussions that can occur are ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Motivation for overseas travel
influence demand. Demand for tourism would appear to be affected by many economic, sociological and psychological factors and the compact interrelationships between them. The concept of tourism demand ... ators and (2) Travel Facilitators (French et al. 1995, p.29).Travel motivations have their roots in psychological and sociological factors that are difficult to analyse, especially on a mass scale. Ye ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Obesity: The Global Epidemic
on had risen by almost 100 million people.Obesity refers to an excess amount of body fat, caused by psychological factors and a lack of exercise, and many other reasons, including genetics, family hab ... ht. Another common reason to get to an obese size is more common in women, but depression and other psychological factors can lead to strange eating habits. Finally, the most obvious reason is a compl ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Stress and Thriving regarding an article "Stress Related Growth and Thriving Through Coping: The Roles of Personality and Cognitive Processes
rowth and Thriving Through Coping: The Roles of Personality and Cognitive Processes" and "Embodying Psychological Thriving: Physical Thriving in Response to Stress". I chose the topic of stress-relate ... Growth and Thriving Through Coping: The Roles of Personality and Cognitive Processes", examines the psychological factors that play a part of people coping with stress. For a long time, the focus of s ...
Subjects: Art Essays
What is Critical Thinking?
n of the full range of possibilities to a problem, including emotional, cognitive, intellectual and psychological factors.Thus, critical thinking belongs to the category of higher-level thinking skill ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Why does religion exist?
a few discussed here. These will include the intellectual aspects that go into every religion, the psychological factors of religion, and the sociological influences on religion. We'll take an in dep ... in some religions) or how to reach the plane of spiritual nirvana (for others). We as humans have a psychological need to know that we are never walking alone, that we always have someone or something ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOUR & ORGANISATIONAL MARKETS AND BUYING BEHAVIOUR
Consumer Buying Decision Process 41.4 Personal factors influencing the buying decision process 51.5 Psychological factors influencing the buying decision process 61.6 Social factors influencing the bu ... cars. So the consumers are more interested to gain more information in this product categories.1.5 Psychological factors influencing the buying decision processIn addition to the personal factors the ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Consumer Behaviour Case Study: Libb Pharmaceuticals.
eters to recognise and understand the complex decision making process a consumer goes through. Many psychological factors effect the consumer's decision when purchasing a product. Libb Pharmaceuticals ... ersonality and attitudes also play a large role in these decision-making steps. Understanding these psychological factors can assist the marketers in better understand the consumer and even help to re ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Health Psychology
indfulness-based Stress Reduction in women with Breast Cancer. They found that there were important psychological factors that played a big role in what people go through during cancer treatment that ... n effective in reduction of anxiety and stress symptoms and in improving mood states.To measure the psychological factors that were being studied, they used three different scales of measurement rangi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN CAUSING ILLNESS
WITH REFERENCE TO STRESS THEORY, DISCUSS THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS (E.G. FEAR, ANIXETY, AND DEPRESSION) IN CAUSING ILLNESS. ILLUSTRATE YOUR ARGUM ... ails to understand how the stress causing illness. Some of the examples were used to illustrate the psychological factors predispose stressed people to have illnesses. Afterward, it will criticize the ... tion energy was depleted resulting in stage of exhaustion.Goldberger, L. and Breznitz, S. (1982) C. Psychological factors predispose stressed people to have illness 1. Peptic ulcer ¡V direct cau ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Explain how social and psychological factors contribute to the development of an eating disorder such as Anorexia Nervosa.
d as contributing to anorexia while these three factors can also be further divided into social and psychological factors which can contribute to the development of anorexia in each stage.Predisposing ... person developing anorexia and at this stage social factors seem to play a more dominant role than psychological in contributing to anorexia. It has been found that anorexics generally are "significa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders