Meaning in life is vital for human wellbeing. Research has examined important sources of
meaning: however, it has not yet investigated whether certain sources of meaning might be …

Background Research indicates that social isolation and loneliness increase the risk of mental
disorders, but less is known about the distinct contributions of different aspects of isolation…

A recent theory by IJ Roseman (1979, 1984) attempts to specify the particular appraisals of
events that elicit 16 discrete emotions. This study tested hypotheses from the latest version of …

Written in a friendly, conversational style, this book offers a hands-on approach to statistical
mediation and moderation for both beginning researchers and those familiar with modeling. …

This longitudinal study was designed to investigate whether or not social connectedness
predicts psychological well‐being over time. Structural equation modeling was used to …

Three types of parent involvement—communicating, volunteering at school, and learning at
home—were explored in two cultures within the United States. Immigrant Chinese parents …

A cross-sectional non-clinical sample of 1,218 adolescents, aged 10–17 years, completed
measures of stress, rumination, and depression to allow tests of the response style theory of S…

The investigation discloses that the variation in the motion of the sun about the center of
mass of the solar system has a periodicity of 178.7 yr. The sunspot cycle is found to have the …

… Graphing this interaction using Modgraph (Jose, Citation2008), we obtained simple slope
statistics for three conditions: low savoring, slope = 0.58, t(94) = 8.36, p < 0.001; medium …

Proposes a developmental model of story liking for suspense stories. The model predicts that
(a) reader identification increases with greater perceived similarity between character and …