Message from Editor

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Dear Readers,

It is a great honor for us to publish eighth volume, four issue of Global Journal of Psychology Research: New Trends and Issues (GJPR).

Global Journal of Psychology Research: New Trends and Issues welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles focusing on psychological issues and related disciplines. The mission of the journal is to publish articles of professional interest for members of psychology. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to; the following major areas of psychology science including clinical psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, experimental psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, traffic psychology, forensic psychology, psychometric psychology, sports psychology, health psychology, educational psychology, media psychology and neuroscience psychology.

Articles focusing on doctoral students’ professional identity; psychosocial antecedents of those who work in practice, personal and social predictors of risky sexual behaviours in Iranian youth, the effects of Machiavellianism and person–group dissimilarity on workplace  incivility, the communication between a doctor and his patients’ parents as a factor in the availability of medical care for disabled children and adulthood transition of students with special educational needs in Portugal; preliminary results of professionals perception are included in this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2018 Volume.

A total number of seventeen (17) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of six (6) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.

Aim of this issue is to give the researchers an opportunity to share the results of their academic studies. There are different research topics discussed in the articles.

We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.

Best regards,