Sentences with phrase «positive psychological benefits»

The game's variations for artists originate from a research project beginning with the Yap's «Artists» Personal Impacts Survey» to explore positive psychological benefits of art practice.

This will provide many positive psychological benefits, as well as boost your metabolism.

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The study, carried out by psychologist, Hendrik Mothes of the University of Freiburg (Sport Science Department) showed that test subjects who already know of the positive effects that exercise is having on them, before they take part in their chosen activity, enjoy greater psychological and neuropsychological benefits.

These practices are associated with a number of physical and psychological health benefits such as increased positive emotions, improved sleep, mental and physical stamina, improved relationships, bolstering the immune system, and reducing the impact of certain health conditions.

Lifting a psychological barrier at a key transition can facilitate students» access to positive institutional channels, giving rise to accumulative benefits.

This books shows the benefits of training a dog based on Meisterfeld's system of psychological dog training, which centers around «unwavering, consistent attention to development of mutual respect and trust between dog and master accomplished only with positive reinforcement.»

The study concluded that dogs provided many positive psychological and physical benefits for their owners.

A cover story, titled How Laughter Leads to Learning, appearing in a 2006 edition of Monitor on Psychology, the journal of the American Psychological Association, stated that research found positive evidence that humor produces psychological and physiological benefits that enhance students abilPsychological Association, stated that research found positive evidence that humor produces psychological and physiological benefits that enhance students abilpsychological and physiological benefits that enhance students ability to learn.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

A number of research trials have demonstrated the positive benefits of this model to the developmental progress of children, parent - child interaction and the psychological functioning of parents, families and children.

Prior studies generally show that the psychological benefits associated with positive characteristics of marriage are weaker than the psychological costs imposed by negative characteristics (Bookwala, 2005; Umberson, Williams, Powers, Liu, & Needham, 2006; Whisman, Uebelacker, Tolejko, Chatav, & McKelvie, 2006).

Results of a mixed - method implementation evaluation suggest that the new intervention activities were generally feasible to deliver, acceptable to participants, and perceived to yield positive benefits for family functioning and parent psychological well - being.

general knowledge and acceptance of the positive social and psychological benefits for residents in seniors housing communities