Daniel Shepherd

TL;DR: The WHOQOL-BREF is valid to use with medical students to assess health-related quality of life, but some items, such as those inquiring about pain and medication, may not be suitable for medical students or young people in general.

TL;DR: The Big Five personality dimensions (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) had an independent effect on noise sensitivity, however, additional analyses indicated that the influence of gender and age must be considered when examining the relationship between personality and noise sensitivity.

TL;DR: The PLS-PM model showed that changes in cardiac and skin conductance measures were correlated with subjectively-rated emotions, and these self-reported emotions evoked by music were significantly correlated with flavour.

TL;DR: Investigating the role ofreligious coping requires more complex approaches than attempting to assign it to one higher order factor, such as problem- or emotion-focused coping, and that the variability of findings reported by previous studies on the function of religious coping may partly be due to variability in religiosity and spirituality across samples.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether samples of pleasant, neutral and unpleasant music can impact food perception and found that the presence of non-preferred music significantly decreased the pleasantness ratings of all three types of chocolate gelati tested, while preferred music increased perceived pleasantness rating of dark and bittersweet chocolate gelato.