Summary: This study (N = 126 students) examined the importance of dispositions of action control (i.e., action-oriented versus state-oriented modes of control) in moderating the extent to which personal-goal commitments depend on (a) the perceived ...

Summary: Personal optimism represents the positive expectations concerning one's own person whereas social optimism includes the expectations concerning the person's environment. Items for the assessment of personal and social optimism were submitted to ...

Summary: Differential profiles of coping and their relationships to indicators of psychophysiological well-being were investigated in a working sample (n = 137). Measures used included standardized multidimensional questionnaires of coping and mood states ...

Summary: This study examined the associations between Positive Affectivity (PA), Negative Affectivity (NA) and cardiovascular activation. 145 female and male white collar workers were tested during 24 hours of a real working day by means of a computerized ...

This article examines the psychometric qualities of a scale to assess the development of daily living skills in blind infants and preschoolers. The scale is part of the Bielefeld Developmental Test for Blind Infants and Preschoolers and was especially ...

This paper gives an overview of the development and the psychometric properties of a questionnaire for the assessment of empathy. This scale was developed through factor analysis from an amount of items from corresponding English tests, which have been ...